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Carl Benjamin, also known as Sargon of Akkad in social media, is an English YouTube commentator, content creator and game developer. He is married, has two children and lives in Swindon.

YouTube career

In June 2015 YouTube took down one of Sargon's videos when it received a YouTube copyright claim from The Guardian. Sargon contested the claim against the video, which used substantial portions of The Guardian's video, but was not successful. The Guardian said it was offering "advice on how to engage with Guardian content without breaching copyright. The video was restored later the same day.

In using the entire Guardian video, Sargon may have fallen afoul of the fair-use doctrine. However one Los Angles Times columnist called it "alarming to see copyright law used to stifle debate in the public square."

Sargon appeared at The Rubin Report on February 12, 2016.

In March 2016 MTV's Franchesca Ramsey wrote Patreon asking them to suspend his account for account there – his main source of income.

In April 2016 Sargon started a Change.org petition asking universities to suspend social justice courses, calling them "illiterate, logically unsound, deeply bigoted and openly supremacist."

Jess Phillips

In response to Labour Party politician Jess Phillips's statement that rape threats are commonplace for her, Sargon said the following in a Youtube-video: “I tell you what, Jess; I think that's terrible. And you know what? I wouldn't even rape you. I wouldn't even rape you. Not even.” and repeated this on Twitter. After this, Sargon found himself at the centre of a tabloid and internet frenzy that saw him accused of instigating a “hateful” misogynistic trolling campaign against the Labour MP.

Personal views

Sargon identifies as a liberal. His videos often promote Gamergate and antifeminism.

References

  1. Zombie slayers call for start-up funders; Swindon Advertiser,by Beren Cross, 26 March 2014
  2. ^ I set out to troll her — why all this fuss about 600 rape tweets?, by Martin Daubney June 5 2016; The Sunday Times
  3. Lane, Oliver JJ (10 July 2015). "Guardian Accused of 'False' Copyright 'Bullying' Against Hilarious YouTuber". Breitbart London. Retrieved 15 May 2016. The video was an instant hit online, as with many of his other videos, which have a combined 19 million views. But the vlogger clearly ruffled feathers at the Guardian, who told Breitbart London that while they hadn't filed a formal Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice, they had indeed pursued their copyright claim through YouTube.
  4. Healey, Jon (11 June 2015). "The Guardian uses copyright to shush a critic of its cultural criticism". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 15 May 2016. Sargon used seemingly every frame from Anyangwe's 3 minute, 49 second video. He found fault with most of the points she made, as well as the way she made them. After watching his piece, it's clear that there's no point in going to the Guardian's site to see the original because he's just shown you the whole thing.
  5. The Rubin Report. "Sargon of Akkad and Dave Rubin: Gamergate, Feminism, Regressive Left (Full Interview)". YouTube. Retrieved 2016-02-15.
  6. ^ Rozsa, Matthew (9 April 2016). "Sargon of Akkad and the Importance of Free Speech". The Good Men Project. Retrieved 15 May 2016. This brings me to the war against his Patreon account being waged by progressive activist Franchesca Ramsey, whose YouTube videos have recently gained prominence thanks to her weekly MTV series "Decoded." When it came to her attention that some of her work had been critiqued by Sargon, she wrote an email about him to Patreon challenging his account there. Because she openly acknowledged on Twitter that Sargon's videos are his main source of income, it is safe to assume that her goal was to deprive him of the financial resources to continue producing his distinct brand of political content… which would, in effect, silence him.
  7. Kew, Ben (23 April 2016). "Petition Created to 'Suspend Social Justice Courses'". Breitbart. Retrieved 15 May 2016. The petition states, "Social justice has become scientifically illiterate, logically unsound, deeply bigoted and openly supremacist. Social justice professors are indoctrinating young people into a pseudoscientific cult behind closed doors that is doing damage to their health, education and future.'
  8. Gentlemen, It's Time We Had a Serious Talk; by Rich Penney; 1 June 2016;Telesur

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