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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Sun Jun 14, 2020, 02:46 PM Jun 2020

That's weird. Looks like Youtube is shadowbanning me.

There is a video comparing Obama to the Antichrist. I made a sarcastic comment comparing Trump to the Antichrist.

- The video is still up, my comment is gone.

- My comment-timeline is not updating. My most recent comments are missing from my timeline.



TBH, the whole complaint-system of Youtube is broken. You can file a complaint that somebody else's video has violated your copyright and Youtube will block the other video without even checking whether there is a copyright-violation.

And THEN in order to appeal to Youtube for blocking your video on the say-so of some random guy, Youtube needs your phone-number. Why THE FUCK does Youtube need the user's phone-number for that? Why not simply use the email of the Youtube-account???

And THEN there are no consequences for abusing the complaint-system to harass people. A certain Youtube-channel has admittedly filed a false copyright-complaint against another certain Youtube-channel, admittedly to punish him for some "privacy"-violation. And when the smoke cleared and everything had been sorted out, the guys filing the false copyright-complaint suffered no punishment by Youtube.




I watch and comment on conspiracy-theory videos, and I'm blocked from commenting on at least 3 conspiracy-theory Youtube-channels. So it's very likely that Youtube has marked me down as a spammer/troll.

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