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Quote from: Yaunfitda on April 03, 2020, 08:32:26 PM

According to this article, YouTube continues to ban crypto content; No one knows the reason!. Last December they ban a lot of 'legitimate crypto website'. But lately though, we have seen hundreds if not thousands of fake giveways, and with the Covid-19 pandemic, perhaps there are more crypto related scams appearing on Youtube.

I agree with the ban of crpyto related scams, and they should focus on it. However, if some legit channels are going to be affected, then they have to look at their process of banning, just saying.

Perhaps you could have seen the policies set out by YouTube itself.

One of the content policy clearly says when an allegation would be done on a channel and i guess one of the policy depicts the Crypto Channels here :

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Scams: Content offering cash gifts, “get rich quick” schemes, or pyramid schemes (sending money without a tangible product in a pyramid structure).

Since most of the Crypto projects fall under get quick rich stuff and also MLM kinda projects they are banned straight away.

Also this one . . .

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Promising money, products, software, or gaming perks for free if viewers install software, download an app, or perform other tasks.

Reference : https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2801973?hl=en&ref_topic=9282365

About the LEGIT CHANNELS :

They always have a scope to contact the support and present their channel in best possible ways and look if they violate the terms of YouTube or Not. C'mon there is no alternative for this.

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Much better to look for other alternatives out there.

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Quote from: Yaunfitda on April 03, 2020, 08:32:26 PM

According to this article, YouTube continues to ban crypto content; No one knows the reason!. Last December they ban a lot of 'legitimate crypto website'. But lately though, we have seen hundreds if not thousands of fake giveways, and with the Covid-19 pandemic, perhaps there are more crypto related scams appearing on Youtube.

but they Lifted the banning last year right?i don't know if this serve my memories correct but that is what i remember.

Quote from: Yaunfitda on April 03, 2020, 08:32:26 PM

I agree with the ban of crpyto related scams, and they should focus on it. However, if some legit channels are going to be affected, then they have to look at their process of banning, just saying.

the problem is how they will separate the legit to scam because scammers are good in copying and pretending to be legit.

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Quote from: pooya87 on April 03, 2020, 11:42:18 PM

just like before, unless you can show at least one example of an actually legitimate cryptocurrency related content that was removed i am going to say it was justified because all the "contents" i have seen have been either scams advertising some sort of shitcoin or ICO or have been misleading people into losing money in trading disguised as "expert traders" and "trading signals".

as an example of useful content that will never be removed you can always look at Andreas Antonopoulos videos.

If youtube uses the same algorithm that they use for demonetizing other videos, then it is possible that they remove good content, but I don't think there's that much of good crypto content on youtube to begin with, and most of it is old and well-established, so it's unlikely to be removed. So maybe overall it's a net positive that a lot of scams will get booted out of the platform and less people will get scammed.

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Quote from: Yaunfitda on April 03, 2020, 08:32:26 PM

According to this article, YouTube continues to ban crypto content; No one knows the reason!. Last December they ban a lot of 'legitimate crypto website'. But lately though, we have seen hundreds if not thousands of fake giveways, and with the Covid-19 pandemic, perhaps there are more crypto related scams appearing on Youtube.

I agree with the ban of crpyto related scams, and they should focus on it. However, if some legit channels are going to be affected, then they have to look at their process of banning, just saying.

YouTube channel should make a better move this time in separating the scam channel from a legitimate one and for the channel owners, make sure also to double check every rules and regulations of YouTube so you can avoid this from happening.

This happened last year but the YouTube gave a statement that they created a mistake and they un-ban the legitimate crypto channels so I am hoping that they are not doing the same mistake again. It will be good also if you can drop some legit channels that were being banned by YouTube so we can check whether they are now banning the whole crypto channels or those scam channels only.

Youtube is somehow related to authority and some governments really don't agree with the use of crypto in a particular country so it depends in the country that you are based on. It is not impossible for the crypto advertisements to become banned in Youtube as it is also taking care of its image and some people are not that knowledgeable about the use of crypto in our society. But that's the function of the advertisements, to help promote and accept the cryptocurrency in the industry so that it will be legalize in a certain country. As what I've said, it needs a confirmation of a government if they will accept the advertisement of crypto in other social media, not only Youtube. The main problem is because of the scammers, the government only get some reports about people being scammed by crypto that's why the image and the true purpose of bitcoin when it comes to government is being ruined.

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Quote from: Yaunfitda on April 03, 2020, 08:32:26 PM

According to this article, YouTube continues to ban crypto content; No one knows the reason!. Last December they ban a lot of 'legitimate crypto website'. But lately though, we have seen hundreds if not thousands of fake giveways, and with the Covid-19 pandemic, perhaps there are more crypto related scams appearing on Youtube.

I agree with the ban of crpyto related scams, and they should focus on it. However, if some legit channels are going to be affected, then they have to look at their process of banning, just saying.

I remember when Youtube banned a bunch of accounts some time ago, but within a week they solved the matter and apologized for that mistake. But to be honest, I don't see any reputable media mentioning such major restrictions that occurred lately. I see that something happened in February, and then Youtube banned a couple of popular accounts in March for some time and gave them strikes. So sometimes it happens, and it's terrible, but it's not just crypto videos. I've seen some of my favorite YouTubers complaining about the problems with Youtube algorithms. I guess, the problem is that there's too much content on Youtube right now, so workers cannot check it manually. Instead, they write programs that are supposed to do the job, but they often make mistakes because it's not that easy to tell a program what to look for that would not result in some mistakes.

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Quote from: Yaunfitda on April 03, 2020, 08:32:26 PM

According to this article,

I agree with the ban of crpyto related scams, and they should focus on it. However, if some legit channels are going to be affected, then they have to look at their process of banning, just saying.

Well, that's where the problem comes from as it is purely difficult to separate scam and legit cryptocurrency projects often atimes, i believe that's why people still lose investments in startups IEO and ICO's. The buttom line is just as vitalik butterin suggested last year, the cryptocurrency space need more of owned social and content media outlets, if not we'll just wake-up one day and see that these guys have shut us out

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Quote from: ethereumhunter on April 04, 2020, 04:51:47 AM

But I can still watch some content about crypto without a problem. I think they ban random people, and Youtube wants to see the impact. We don't know what their reason to do that is, but if they still ban people's channels that talk about crypto, that will not stop crypto become popular. Many other websites are similar to Youtube, although Youtube still the king in the video content. Or maybe Google wants to launch its own crypto, so they need to eliminate their competitor first before they start their project.

We can't deny the fact that YouTube have the most numbers in terms of spreads the platform reached more people and the influence is really higher compared to those competitors who serve the same purpose, it's impacting especially to those legit channels who provide good guidelines for crypto lovers.

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Similar to facebook, I think youtube's algorithm automatically takes down a content if it has been reported plenty of times. They'll just wait for an appeal from the content creator.

Ivan on Tech has been doing AMA ICOs for a long time and some of his folllowers are probably fed up.

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Quote from: ethereumhunter on April 04, 2020, 04:51:47 AM

But I can still watch some content about crypto without a problem. I think they ban random people, and Youtube wants to see the impact. We don't know what their reason to do that is, but if they still ban people's channels that talk about crypto, that will not stop crypto become popular. Many other websites are similar to Youtube, although Youtube still the king in the video content. Or maybe Google wants to launch its own crypto, so they need to eliminate their competitor first before they start their project.

There are always 2 sides of the story.
One side is that they are removing content that is being reported and I know that in some cases people responsible for reviewing reported videos don't know what they're about but still delete them. For them it's better to be more strict than lenient to show that they're doing something "protecting the community".
On the other some vidoes are real scams. We all saw videos od bitconnect promotors and I'm sure they managed to hurt a lot of naive people by persuading them to invest.

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But I can still watch some content about crypto without a problem. I think they ban random people, and Youtube wants to see the impact. We don't know what their reason to do that is, but if they still ban people's channels that talk about crypto, that will not stop crypto become popular. Many other websites are similar to Youtube, although Youtube still the king in the video content. Or maybe Google wants to launch its own crypto, so they need to eliminate their competitor first before they start their project.

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Quote from: HatakeKakashi on April 04, 2020, 04:06:37 AM

When I was a video on youtube I saw a lot of crypto advertisement that I saw but now I see some only and I hope they can able again advertising about crypto content. I think they have a good purpose why they banning it because they see some scam project so they need to implement that but I hope they consider still the good and legit project that gives an oppotunity to the people to earn a real money because crypto is really legit only people is the scammer of that and they are using crypto in bad ways.

Honestly,,, why do you guys even care? All the good stuff about crypto and Bitcoin is right here on this forum, or learnable from the wiki and other discussion forums. Do we need some corporate crypto ad in our face? No I know I do not,,, especially when 99.9% of those projects are scammers or will be scammers at some point. I agree with the ban.

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Then we will also a lot of upcoming complaints about those crypto YouTubers. Last time about this issue was extremely devastating, some crypto channel in youtube was suffered, almost all of the videos relating to some crypto was deleted by the Youtube, even they have a lot of views and lot of subscribers in the channel but after few days, some videos were able to watch again, it seems like a warning shot from Youtube?
But for me, this is good since a lot of SHITCOIN shillers in the Youtube who luring those newbies to invest, even in ICO. But I hope youtube will be careful about banning/deleting some video.

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When I was a video on youtube I saw a lot of crypto advertisement that I saw but now I see some only and I hope they can able again advertising about crypto content. I think they have a good purpose why they banning it because they see some scam project so they need to implement that but I hope they consider still the good and legit project that gives an oppotunity to the people to earn a real money because crypto is really legit only people is the scammer of that and they are using crypto in bad ways.

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I wish all these affected channels would move away from YouTube to a decentralized video platform and have success on it. YT is abusing their power way too much lately. Why was it needed to take monetization off ANY video related to the Coronavirus? Why was it needed to take down crypto channels and videos? Why is it needed to censor the videos they don't want us to see and show us only what they want?

They're so pathetic. I hope some revolutionary decentralised video platform will take off and steal YT channels away from Google.

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I am very sure this must have been a very tough decision for youtube to make, cryptocurrency videos and topics are no longer commonplace, many people post a lot of videos to teach new people a lot of things and also how to trade. But the scam videos and content seems to have outrun/exceeded the good ones, they receive a lot of reports and have to bring down so many videos everyday, I do not know if this is a permanent ban or just for sometime, but it was beyond doubt needed to save people from losing money.

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Quote from: Yaunfitda on April 03, 2020, 08:32:26 PM

According to this article, YouTube continues to ban crypto content; No one knows the reason!. Last December they ban a lot of 'legitimate crypto website'. But lately though, we have seen hundreds if not thousands of fake giveways, and with the Covid-19 pandemic, perhaps there are more crypto related scams appearing on Youtube.

Weird. I thought that after the first wave of bans around the December, they should have a list of which is legit and trusted. And that they shouldn't get the boot again if there are new bans.

Quote from: Yaunfitda on April 03, 2020, 08:32:26 PM

I agree with the ban of crpyto related scams, and they should focus on it. However, if some legit channels are going to be affected, then they have to look at their process of banning, just saying.

Yes, the problem is that as we have said, those legit channels. So I wouldn't be surprised that they complains about this new wave. Besides, there should be a new of rules about the banning. Google and Youtube have fuck up again and those legit channels might look for a better decentralised video based alternative here.

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That's true, I have watched a video about crypto before on youtube and then while reading comment sections I have read that someone suggested to delete the video because one of the rules of youtube is no crypto content, so the next day I watch again on his channel and he talk about the video he posted yesterday, saying that he already deleted it and giving gratitude to the person who commented about the rules.

I really don't know why youtube made that rules about banning crypto content, crypto has been used by many people around the world like is and we want a continuous learning which we can learn well by watching on youtube for me youtube is the best platform to learn things, just like some tutorials, we can learn more if we can see it while being performed.

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Indeed, youtube does not allow crypto videos to be posted, one of their rules is no crypto content, I really don't think the reason behind that, crypto content is really helpful because there are so many people who loves crypto and is willing to learn about it and one of the best way that we are using for us to learn something is the youtube, before I became interested in cryptotalk so I research about it and I search it in youtube but nothing good appears as well as this forum.

But on my opinion the reason why they have been banned the crypto content is because there are so many scammed crypto websites and youtube will not let this happen so they provide rules about it.

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Quote from: davis196 on April 04, 2020, 01:16:20 AM

Now I'm searching Youtube using the keyword "bitcoin" and thousands of videos appear in the search results.Most of the videos are published in the last 24 hours and most of them have at least a few thousand views.It seems that everything is alright and Youtube doesn't ban all Bitcoin related content.
I don't know what's going on with altcoin/shitcoin/ICO videos.I don't watch such videos and most of those videos deserve to get banned,because they are scam.

I did as well and I can't believe that there's an article like this. It's fresh and published recently.

I have a question, is that website even a reliable source?

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