The account wasn't terminated - it was (temporarily) suspended. > Automatically deactivating links or removing URLs would be just as effective at avoiding harm

The account wasn't terminated - it was (temporarily) suspended. > Automatically deactivating links or removing URLs would be just as effective at avoiding harm Generally not - in the (much more common) case where the person being suspended is a spammer, the videos attached to the descriptions in question generally are _also_ spammy - that is, they generally contain some instruction to the user to visit a given URL, or "CLICK THE LINK BELOW".