YouTube Moderation Issues

The cluster centers on complaints about YouTube's content moderation, including video takedowns, account terminations, demonetization, disabled comments, faulty automation, and lack of effective appeals processes.

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Sample Comments

askvictor Aug 26, 2020 View on HN

You'd think youtube would be onto this, as a service to the community...

solardev Sep 19, 2023 View on HN

Youtube would delist that before they could all see it though.

verylittlemeat Mar 15, 2018 View on HN

Maybe youtube is unhappy with their current solutions?Some videos* are already walled up behind warnings and disabled features.* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Qt6a-vaNM

matz1 Mar 24, 2019 View on HN

That absolutely count. Youtube can ban this kind of video.

tmerr Apr 20, 2021 View on HN

The policy is here https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en Article is about a year old

lmilcin Jun 28, 2021 View on HN

I have recently noticed my posts on Youtube that correct inaccuracies in technical videos are vanishing couple of seconds after posted.It seems Youtube is performing some kind of sentiment analysis and removes posts immediately based on it.I stopped commenting on Youtube.

jbverschoor Nov 6, 2020 View on HN

Interesting to see that youtube (google) tolerates video's that bring ad revenue, but easily without notice or reason shuts down someone's email, or normal channel.

stjohnswarts Feb 20, 2022 View on HN

keep us posted if youtube makes any attempt to review this and rectify it please.

iancmceachern Feb 7, 2025 View on HN

Sounds about right. They flagged it via the youtube process so I don't even know how I would dispute that with them.

pokemonmaster Oct 10, 2012 View on HN

They disabled comments on the youtube video. Never a good sign.