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`given he's never paid YouTube a penny` - this is not how yt gets paid. One day someone will sue them for the income yt earned off a creator they demonetize/ban

• gizajob 4y ago
  I realise completely this is not how yt gets paid... but virtually everything else in the economy works on contracts and payment. YouTube says "you don't owe us money, because we're freemium and are so good at the internet we'll handle all that, just accept these terms of service and it's a deal". It's a very non-standard way of doing business. I'm sure suing them for demonetising a creator would go absolutely nowhere and likely lose pretty quickly in court, because they don't owe you the right of doing business with you, or continuing to do business with you, should you fall foul of the terms set out. YouTube could also lucratively host content like pornography but that's just not the business they want to be in. Neither is hateful speech that has become obvious enough to upset enough of their customers to the point they will complain about it.