Is the host Arthur trying to censor a video montage of his sexist actions in his show “Take it or leave it”? – Liberation

On X, the video was deleted and several accounts were suspended. Internet users accuse Arthur and his lawyers of being at the origin of the censorship. The deletion sparked, in response, a vast movement to share images.

While TF1 dedicated a documentary on Thursday, December 26 in honor ofArthur, the child from TV, to celebrate his thirty years of career, a video montage compiling several sexist actions of the host in his show Take it or leave it has been circulating extensively on social networks for several days. We see him kissing a candidate on the mouth by surprise, lifting the skirt of another, commenting on the physique and outfit of the women on the set, miming spankings, whispering remarks of a sexual nature in the ears of some candidates. “I always liked women, a little, who resisted me and everything, who spoke badly to me. It’s true, yes, you speak badly to me, that’s what I’m saying, I love it.” he whispers, for example, to a candidate. The publication by the X Cerfia account on December 27 of a post relaying a screenshot of the video was viewed more than nine million times. But the next day, Cerfia took offense in a new publication that his post had been reported directly to X, and that their account had been locked.

In reaction, many influential, left-wing or feminist accounts relayed the video on Monday December 30 by sharing the same