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YouTube Purges All Crypto Videos, Admits "Mistake"


wry

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One of the biggest advantages of Bitcoin is that it is a censorship resistant payment network.  Censorship resistance is on the front page today as YouTube "purged" (a nice name for deleted) several educational crypto videos for containing "harmful or dangerous" content.

Of course this is totally bogus.  While YouTube has admitted the mistake and claims to be reinstating the videos many are still missing.

This is exactly the type of unfounded criticism and discrimination of crypto assets that upsets me.  Many people have videos of them doing dangerous stunts on YouTube and they don't take them down but a video to help introduce people to crypto is somehow "harmful or dangerous."

Bad on you YouTube!

Link:  https://www.coindesk.com/youtube-calls-crypto-purge-a-mistake-but-many-videos-still-missing

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When I first heard about this new, the first thing that came to my mind was the fact that Youtube will probably be building its own cryptocurrency in order to jump in the Bitcoin ride and in the cryptoecosyste.  Who knows, maybe in the near future, same as Facebook and Telegram, Youtube will create its own coin.  Good luck. 

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It's an absurd censorship on the youtube platform!
I know several channels that I followed for a long time and that the vast majority were punished by youtube for transmitting content related to cryptocurrencies.
Censorship! What danger do cryptocurrencies pose to YouTube? There is a lot of ignorance on that platform. This is due to the fact of abuse, because it is one of the only most popular video platforms in the world. But youtube beware, because several platforms are already starting to gain space!

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What do they mean with harmful or dangerous? That people are investing too much or only in shitcoins? Thats not a problem of the content creator.

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On 12/29/2019 at 1:37 AM, wry said:

One of the biggest advantages of Bitcoin is that it is a censorship resistant payment network.  Censorship resistance is on the front page today as YouTube "purged" (a nice name for deleted) several educational crypto videos for containing "harmful or dangerous" content.

Of course this is totally bogus.  While YouTube has admitted the mistake and claims to be reinstating the videos many are still missing.

This is exactly the type of unfounded criticism and discrimination of crypto assets that upsets me.  Many people have videos of them doing dangerous stunts on YouTube and they don't take them down but a video to help introduce people to crypto is somehow "harmful or dangerous."

Bad on you YouTube!

Link:  https://www.coindesk.com/youtube-calls-crypto-purge-a-mistake-but-many-videos-still-missing

the fact that youtube does not allow the transmission of knowledge of bitcoin may not be justified, but does it (cryptocurrency) fit or not with their principles? their ideas .... anyway if we do not consider only education as a factor, their criticism is insane ..... absurd even

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On 12/29/2019 at 2:37 AM, wry said:

This is exactly the type of unfounded criticism and discrimination of crypto assets that upsets me.  Many people have videos of them doing dangerous stunts on YouTube and they don't take them down but a video to help introduce people to crypto is somehow "harmful or dangerous."

whatever works for youtube really... only reason why those dangerous things are still a thing is because there are millions and billions of people watching and youtube also make a good profit from it in short term. it's the new type of consumerism. even if you report those videos they don't find any wrong. they want you to keep watching and also spend more money, not get information about how to handle the money or make investments.

 

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On 12/29/2019 at 5:37 AM, wry said:

One of the biggest advantages of Bitcoin is that it is a censorship resistant payment network.  Censorship resistance is on the front page today as YouTube "purged" (a nice name for deleted) several educational crypto videos for containing "harmful or dangerous" content.

Of course this is totally bogus.  While YouTube has admitted the mistake and claims to be reinstating the videos many are still missing.

This is exactly the type of unfounded criticism and discrimination of crypto assets that upsets me.  Many people have videos of them doing dangerous stunts on YouTube and they don't take them down but a video to help introduce people to crypto is somehow "harmful or dangerous."

Bad on you YouTube!

Link:  https://www.coindesk.com/youtube-calls-crypto-purge-a-mistake-but-many-videos-still-missing

Thanks for the amazing information.It would be really appreaciated.

  • 5 weeks later...
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They have come back since the purge and some of them are causing major problems, apparently - a YouTube cryptocurrency giveaway scam has been exposed by the Singapore-based cybersecurity firm Group-IB. Promising high profit in return of crypto investments has led the fraudsters to leave with more than $1 680 000, although the real amount is not known at the moment: https://theforexreview.com/2022/04/11/youtube-crypto-giveaway-scams-users-with-millions/

The reports stated that these schemers ran 36 falsified crypto giveaways using YouTube streaming services as its main platform. :(

The true scope of the scam is unknown still.

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