My YouTube Account Was Terminated
I noticed I wasn't logged into YouTube today. After trying to login, I was redirected to a support page that said I'm unable to access the Google product, i.e. YouTube. Later on I checked my YouTube page and saw that it was terminated...
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I don't comment. I haven't uploaded any original content in months. It makes no sense. I told them that in contacting them to understand what is going on.
Then I went to my YouTube account and saw the message:
This account has been terminated because we received multiple third-party claims of copyright infringement regarding material the user posted.
They didn't even warn me, or let me remove the content.
There was 1 video of a 1 minute clip from a BBC movie on Orwell's 1984 that I had uploaded 4 years ago. That's it as far as I know. What are these multiple third-party copyright violations? Psshh....
I await to here back from them to see if I can get my account back. I've never even had a violation notice or anything sent to me. I had tens of thousands of views on my account for the content I created and put there. This is really lame.
Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.
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You're not so much guilty of copyright but wrongthink my friend. Sorry but thats what happens when you're on the "wrong" side to gulag. Looks like it's D-Tube, Real.video and BitChute for you!! Dw I'll follow u on all. I deleted my Gulag account entirely ;).
LOL, yes, I have put a few on dtube, but haven't been doing much video.
Are you on Bitchute or Real.video tho?
Fuck YouTube!...
Of course they would do this , people just don’t understand honestly and the people who did it are worse . Time to switch to Dtube?
Yeah I'm not a big youtuber anyways, but might add some to dtube in the future.
This happened to a friend of mine last May ane he still can't figure out what went wrong.
First he got this letter.
We'd like to inform you that due to repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines (https://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines) your YouTube account has been suspended.
After review we determined that activity in your account violated our Community Guidelines, which prohibit spam, scams or commercially deceptive content (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2801973?hl=en).
He had never used his YouTube account, didn't even know he had one. He has a gmail account so he assumed youtube probably came with that but his gmail has two factor authentication and nobody attempted to log into his account via gmail so it couldn't be a hacking situation.
He had never logged into YouTube, never posted a video or even viewed one, let alone made a single comment. When he wrote in to ask what in the world that was all about they never did tell him. Just wrote this instead ---
Hello,
Thank you for your account suspension appeal. We have decided to keep your account suspended based on our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service. Please visit http://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines for more information.
Please do not respond to this email. Replies to this email will not be processed. Please refer to our Help Center for more information.
Sincerely,
The YouTube Team
That's what I got too. They won't look into my appeal because it was for copyright claims, yet Ic an't know what or from who... no ability to counter.
Sorry to hear you have been on the receiving end of the censorship now, although not surprised given the topics you write about here. Going to get to the point where people will have to start pretending to smear the sensitive topics while actually pushing the truth out there.
Ah that's exactly what I was thinking. If you look at what @krnel writes about and then look at the content that is getting banned... he's right in the pocket.
Don't mean what you say, and talk in riddles :P
Maybe it's because you are an evil conspiracy theorist...
Yes, I'm evil to think and wrote about topics they don't like :P
The empire that they run is coming crumbling down. They use bots and algorithms to scan the content and they ban people for content they don’t like. Someone I follow closely has had his channel shut down for content he posted privately; no one could see it publicly but the algorithms found it and shutdown a channel with 35k subscribers.
Ah, I guess that would make sense lol. Bastards!
That rots. Even though it was probably just a false positive from some overzealous bot, it still rots.
Oh wait... it's a division of Google. They also arbitrarily suspend people's AdSense accounts without explanation or recourse... typically the week before you hit the payout limit. Usually there is some "lame" official reason (IF you can get one) but it often amounts to "we don't like your point of view."
Not to be all conspiracy theory, the "multiple claims" bit could just be a single individual with an axe to grind, sending complaints from a variety of email addresses, or using shills. Piss off someone, recently, that springs to mind?
Anyways, it rots and I hope you get it sorted.
Thanks. Could be, who knows lol. The account is gone forever.
Lame crap.
You're just another casualty in the #informationwar it's clear that Google is extending its reach and has moved beyond silencing the likes of Alex Jones. Anyone with an alternative perspective on something or dare challenges the narrative we are fed by the mainstream is now a "terrorist" or "fake news" distributor and needs to be stopped.
It won't be long before we all descend into China style censorship, which will silence everyone regardless of political ideology. I don't think the left realises what they've started, it has grown so big it's outside of their control now. We are all doomed.
Yes, the dark path you outline could be correct.
@krnel - my heart goes out to you. I know what it feels like to feel like someone just stole something fro you.
You spend ALL this time, work, energy & love into your YT channel, & then they just steal it from you.
It's a violation of the Law of Nature.
I don't give a SHIT if it's on their platform.
And yes, they will dig back years to find something you did to take you down. They've done this with others too.
But I hope you had prepped for this, because all alt media channels knew (or should have known if they were watching at least The Corbett Report) what was going on even a year back.
In fact he said it started 2 years ago.
Yeah I still have all the audio and images that I can re-encode what I want ;) Thanks for the sympathy :)
@krnel - well at least that's something.
I know it will take a TON of man/woman hours to redo.
Maybe try using a CDN account.
I am not sure if they are for vids, or only images, but they usually run $10+ per month (I think)