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Note that the author has zero proof of any of this. He just knows that his channel was deleted, and assumes everything written there. The correct approach would

Note that the author has zero proof of any of this. He just knows that his channel was deleted, and assumes everything written there. The correct approach would've been to contact Youtube and understand the situation. Since the content has nothing to do with Vice, I honestly don't see why Youtube would want to take down the content. Seeing that the channel is back up, it seems like it was indeed a misunderstanding and it has been resolved.

dragonwriter 8y ago
> Note that the author has zero proof of any of this ml Well, yeah, I was focussing on problems with the complaint under the assumption, made for the same of discussion, that the authors interpretation of the factual events were entirely accurate.
tyingq 8y ago
"Seeing that the channel is back up, it seems like it was indeed a misunderstanding and it has been resolved" A more cynical view would be that contacting YouTube has little effect. Being publicly noisy with speculation works better.
- ehsankia 8y ago
  I would normally agree in cases where creators try to contact Youtube for a week, fail, and post on social media. But in this case, we have no way of knowing since the author went straight to speculation and social media.
  - dwild 8y ago
    There's plenty of way bigger channel that had to go public because they had no point of contact with Youtube that would answer them. I often saw people on Reddit refer other youtuber to H3H3 because they did have great contact with Youtube (sadly because they were often victims of how Youtube deal with that kind of stuff).
lucasmullens 8y ago
> The correct approach would've been to contact Youtube and understand the situation. From the article: "I haven’t heard back from YouTube yet on the appeal I submitted." YouTube and Google in general are notorious for not having easy-to-reach support.
- ehsankia 8y ago
  > I awoke this morning Posted March 1st morning. Maybe that's true, or maybe there's a bias where we only hear online about cases where Youtube was slow. Hard to verify, but in this case it seems like the author didn't even wait before posting.
turtlecloud 8y ago
There is no such thing as YouTube customer support. At best they send you to an Indian or Filipino call center that just wastes your time.
- LifeLiverTransp 8y ago
  To even get the contemplation that a company did something wrong here, this company has to murder someone and dance on his grave in public. HN is blind on that eye. Nevermind that such dismisal conjurs up the possibility of enforced customer reachability via state regulation, but hey, at least they lived the neo_lib.a dream while it blasted.

dragonwriter 8y ago

> Note that the author has zero proof of any of this ml Well, yeah, I was focussing on problems with the complaint under the assumption, made for the same of discussion, that the authors interpretation of the factual events were entirely accurate.

tyingq 8y ago

"Seeing that the channel is back up, it seems like it was indeed a misunderstanding and it has been resolved" A more cynical view would be that contacting YouTube has little effect. Being publicly noisy with speculation works better.

ehsankia 8y ago
I would normally agree in cases where creators try to contact Youtube for a week, fail, and post on social media. But in this case, we have no way of knowing since the author went straight to speculation and social media.
- dwild 8y ago
  There's plenty of way bigger channel that had to go public because they had no point of contact with Youtube that would answer them. I often saw people on Reddit refer other youtuber to H3H3 because they did have great contact with Youtube (sadly because they were often victims of how Youtube deal with that kind of stuff).

lucasmullens 8y ago

> The correct approach would've been to contact Youtube and understand the situation. From the article: "I haven’t heard back from YouTube yet on the appeal I submitted." YouTube and Google in general are notorious for not having easy-to-reach support.

ehsankia 8y ago
> I awoke this morning Posted March 1st morning. Maybe that's true, or maybe there's a bias where we only hear online about cases where Youtube was slow. Hard to verify, but in this case it seems like the author didn't even wait before posting.

turtlecloud 8y ago

There is no such thing as YouTube customer support. At best they send you to an Indian or Filipino call center that just wastes your time.

LifeLiverTransp 8y ago
To even get the contemplation that a company did something wrong here, this company has to murder someone and dance on his grave in public. HN is blind on that eye. Nevermind that such dismisal conjurs up the possibility of enforced customer reachability via state regulation, but hey, at least they lived the neo_lib.a dream while it blasted.