YouTube Permanently Bans Right Wing Watch, a Media Watchdog Devoted to Exposing Right-Wing Conspirac

[TheBlackAdder]

34. YouTube has been on a purge spree for the past year, and 'bad words' or images get a flag.

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Three strikes and you're out. And this is even happening to 1M+ viewer channels.

If you put up new videos, you have to mark them as Adult, so kids supposedly don't see them. Most of the time, when you do that, they demonetize the videos, or some jackass will flag it or their AI will flag it and demonetize the video. By the time the channel protests the demonetization and it is reviewed and monetized again, most of the regulars have watched the clip and the channel loses out on a fuck ton of money. Words deemed 'bad' or hurtful have to be bleeped out and words on images fuzzed out. Many of those are subjective so it's up to the reviewer's interpretation or own sensitivities. This also goes for anything that appears to injure a life form, any life form. The crazy ting is a channel can put up a 5-second clip of a video that is on YouTube 20 places, and the original is out there, but they'll still strike your video if they want--regardless if is is actively posted elsewhere.

The odd thing is that there are channels that test run their videos on two side channels before posting it to their main one. The videos will go through a half-dozen reviews by YouTube staff, and when it hits the main channel, it's flagged or a strike is given against the main channel.

There apparently is NO consistency in the way YouTube reviews videos. And if you protest a video, and it's reinstated and the strike is removed, the review people will flag another video in spite just to fuck with the channel. Just like the saying asses and elbows, everybody has them, 20 reviewers will assess a video 20 different ways, and just because a video survives 2 or 3 reviews does not mean a fourth will not result in a flag or strike.

So, it comes down to who is reviewing these things at YouTube, as I'm sure there's just as many MAGAt reviewers as Non-MAGAt ones.

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