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YouTube firearm retail and information removal (brownells)

I find the removal of official firearm retailer channels to be reprehensible given that there is nothing within the website that would have proposed the improper use of a firearm. Quite the contrary. Videos within official retailers show the proper way to handle, clean, and store for the utmost safety with clarity in video form. Furthermore, it is a disgraceful reality that the very item you wish to discriminate from your platform is the item that permits you to have a voice, a choice, a constitution. Firearms prevent more deaths than are used to take lives.

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Jonathan Wilhelm
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Jun 11, 2018 5:07 pm EDT

YouTube should not be the Censor of our "BILL OF RIGHTS".

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YouTube ads-regarding 13 reasons why - triggering

I am being literally plagued by ads on the 2nd series of 13 reasons why, I can not find any are on you tube to complain to but I need it to stop have tried changing the ad settings with no success, the show subject is just too triggering, I can hear the music now for the ad in my head like a horror movie and the ad, the part you can't skip shows the dead girl from the first series as though she is a ghost or whatever, I avoided watching the series because it is triggering but it is literally on every video I click on which are mostly vegan food videos and tarot readings, how does this fit my video useage, just because I live in Australia I am the target audience?

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Marie Alexa
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Jun 15, 2018 3:15 pm EDT

Today something happened that is ruining the utube experience. I am listening to an ENDLESS ad that I cannot stop. We used to be able to click our disinterest.
Shoving something down someone's throat never works in sales. I am so turned off (by Realtor/writer Cal's video length, for starters) that I will not consider it again. (I used to).

Since something has happened to make the public unable to control the length of advertiser's diatribes, OVERNIGHT, utube needs to have some boundaries. . .I recommend 60 seconds. Tried and true.
Or give us our toggle button back.
I am also SUDDENLy unable to see the videos, fullscreen.

What is up?

M. Alexa

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3:15 am EDT

YouTube gary orsum channel

I wish to voice my anger that you have deleted the gary orsum channel ! He has over 70k subscribers and growing . He tells it like it is ( often with humor and parody ) which would doubtless upset the PC left and their mindless ideologues . So if you use a handful of complaints from a vocal minority as your reason VS 70k supporters then thats ridiculous and amounts to blatant censorship and complete disregard for the majority opinion . I thank you for your time and would urge youtube to reconsider and represent both the concept of free speech and the opinions of the overwhelming majority . Yours Truly, Phil Jones Melbourne Australia

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RednckBogan
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Nov 06, 2018 5:34 pm EST
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Is all about the governments of the world brainwashing people and removing free thought, ideas, and want a society of zombie sheep that don't question. To eat and [censored] and that's about it. My kids high school codes is
" every teacher has the right to their own beliefs and opppions.:
The for the student
"No student has the right to their own beliefs and opinions"
In other words, no free will. No rights. Force fed [censored] and that's it.
Is [censored] how the world is going.

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7:45 am EDT
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YouTube youtube

I am disgusted at the privacy of YouTube my young daughter does videos just like most kids, I didn't no her account was not private until I seen a dirty comment of an older man so I changed all the settings, to be told that on her live some body was making remarks like to take her top of do a hand stand so her top comes down, this could of lead to so much worse! Does no one not monitor this stuff? I thinks it's a absolute disgrace and something should be done like banned lives, get it monitored by the police i hope you stay in touch as I will not give up

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11:06 am EDT

YouTube video needs to be taken down

I am asking that youtube takes down some videos. These videos were taken when I was 9 I am 13 now and I am getting made fun of for them. I didn't mean to put them up, I was too young to understand. Please take it down. The link for these videos are https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUaPgmnpjk-eJ1QdoJceK8CA please just delete the entire channel if possible

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7:31 am EDT

YouTube selling of guns, altering guns from the manufacturer official assembly

Vermin hunters TV run by Si Pitta Way which is advertised and shown on a daily basis through YouTube is being used to advertise a company in the West Midlands named Sandwell Field Sports.

Si Pitta Way is advertising the selling and prices of guns on a regular basis as well as informing the public that Sandwell Field Sports can alter your gun from the manufactures official assembly and power so that your gun has more than the legal power requirement.

Due to the amount of terrorism throughout the UK and other parts of the world as well as the high crime rates and killing throughout using dangerous weapons being guns I find it inappropriate that YouTube would allow the above to be screed and advertised.

This is only encouraging people to purchase guns and encouraging people to have there guns modified which is far from acceptable.

I strongly believe that this should not be allowed to continue on YouTube as advertising the prices of guns as well as advertising the company that will modify your gun is a recipe for disaster and only encourages people into crimes.

I'm therefore requesting that Vermin hunters TV stop advertising the prices of guns and the modification of guns through YouTube

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4:56 am EDT

YouTube advertising during children’s songs

I was playing children's music on YouTube for my daughter the other day and I was shocked with one of the ads that was played between songs. The ad is called "one of those chats" by Ending HIV NZ. This ad has words such as handjob, sexbox, junk etc. I'm not sure how ads are generated but i don't believe it is appropriate to play these sorts of ads during videos directed at children. I have no problem with the ad itself but believe it should only be played during adult content.

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11:39 pm EDT

YouTube game scammer

My son love fortnite..currently a gamer had groomed him to join his you tube channel This game scammer slowly scams kids to bye products from him over PayPal and Neve aends the product..His goes
under the name on his gmail [protected]@gmail..or his youbtube channel is iiMostHated-yt, ..He cons young kids to bye game codes over pay pal..and never send them the codes...

He grooms kids on his channel and then manipulates them to bye products from him

We have tried several occasions to get in contact with him ..he deletes our messages on the live feed and ignores our email..please reprimand him or make other kids aware of what he does.

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5:16 am EDT

YouTube banned re tos - we do not like you

Hello, I have been banned from logging into Youtube. Not only does this disable me from being able to comment, it has disallowed me from being able to login to any form of content 18+.
After querying this with Youtube, I was informed initially and subsequently after my second appeal, was because I have breached some part Youtube's TOS.
I then went to the Youtube https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/youtube

My response from seo101 was that it was becuase WE CAN and Youtube HATES YOU. Yes I have been banned because Youtube HATES ME.

I have been using this login for many years. Now Youtube simply blocks my right to free speech because You Hate Me.

Either explain why I have been banned from my ability to comment or please allow me to both comment and view Adult content, or am I being treated like a child.

I believe Youtube is as other social media is, a Corporation with immense Social Responsibility. The idea under the UN that Youtube does because it can and hates is crazy and incorrect.

Currently the attitude of the corporation Youtube is to ban or deny anyone that Algorises with the Republicans or Donald Trump.

That is the only thing that has changed in all my years of commenting. I have no uploaded videos.

Please explain why Google and or Youtube would be allowed to get away with such Hate towards anyone without a acceptable and plausible reason.

Not Youtube saying because we Can and Hate You

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2:53 pm EDT

YouTube ads in quran videos

Dear sir or madam
I noticed this year that many Quran recitation videos contained ads that interrupt the recitations.

Quranic recitation should flow uninterrupted especially not with music or songs that are totally out of character with the purpose of listening to Quran being recited.

I understand that the poster of those videos have chosen to monetise them, but there is a moral responsibility by your platform to observe for that as they do not actually own the voices in those videos.

Therefore I suggest that you do not accept monetisation with ads for Quranic recitation videos as you will not achieve the purpose from putting ads to the audience of such videos, as they'd want to skip them.

I hope you take my request seriously and would be an excellent gesture if you do that in the current blessed days of Ramadhan.
Thank you
Emad Al-Rikabi
YouTube user

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1:04 pm EDT

YouTube banning of gambling streamers

A lot of people are not happy about how gambling streamers have been blocked from streaming and without fair reason. Most of these gambling streamers do a lot for people. They advise on stopping gambling they take away urges for people to gamble as these streams can still provide the same buzz without the addiction.. Also to say but the least they do a lot for charitys.. Most of the donations charitys recieve from these streamers come from theyre viewers rocknrolla for eaxample along with kim from lets give it a spin donated £20000 to charity... Although youtube see's theyre streams as a violation we dont see why they have to stop when they do a lot of good

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MsMillie
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Jun 04, 2018 4:18 pm EDT

@SusanWojcicki - My 2 year old channel with 50, 000, 000 views and 80, 000 Subscribers just got removed today without any notice or just cause, & 1 DAY BEFORE my 4-Week US Tour promoting my YouTube Channel! Please help! #Positive #Educational #Fun @TeamYouTube @YouTube #Rude #Rudies

@justbrianc does not promote gambling, he provides free, clean fun entertainment for those of us that are unable to make it to the casino due to medical or any other reasons. He has always been very careful to follow YouTubes guidelines. This is very injust to cancel his channel for false accusations and no way for him to reply or defend his channel! #RUDIESTRONG #LOVEBRIANCHRISTOPHER

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3:49 pm EDT
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YouTube harassment through one of the videos

a person has used my personal photograph in one of his video which he got from my Facebook account. The content of that video is very much vulgar and insulting. So I am requesting you to remove that video and also remove the channel of that person as his other videos are harassing too. The link of the video is given below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITUDrp_0nLw

Also screenshot of my Facebook profile and the picture of my passport is attached so that you believe that this is serious issue for me. This video can hamper my reputation in front of my friends and family.

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2:35 am EDT

YouTube why you are many unnecessary ads on the youtube videos... we are give to money and buy data package.

Dear sir / medam...
I beg most respectfully to your entertainments and many information helpfull websites that I talk to about that now a days we seen many many ads show on the youtube extually this is very bowrring. However, many websites have in the google of there also has many ads that is it not enough.
therefore we requst to you sir please make for us without ads watched on the youtube.

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1:34 am EDT

YouTube commercials

I was just trying to watch some light-hearted videos before I went to sleep.in between videos, i, a gay man, was assaulted with a homophobic old woman's apologia for discriminating against her so-called gay friend, refusing to make his floral arrangement because she was a christian.

A. I am not a christian, and do not want to see christian propaganda anywhere on my screen.
B. I am a gay man and I abjectly refuse to give this woman one half an inch to her disgusting prejudices
C. Youtube has recently shown itself to be a terrible advocate for lgbt people, arbitrarily demonitizing, censoring, and otherwise hiding their content.

[censored] you youtube. I am boycotting you indefinitely.

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5:58 am EDT

YouTube age restriction, demonetizing transgender videos

You are age restricting and demonitizing Chase Ross, an influential transgender youtuber who is often the only responsible and accessible source of information for trans/nonbinary youth. He is nationally known and restricting access to him and other educational trans/nonbinary youtubers is transphobic. Is being transphobic part of your core values? Gender Dysphoria is a serious, potentially fatal condition. With no access to information about relevant topics to the trans/nonbinary community, dysphoria will be heightened and that is extremely risky. Who is responsible for this discriminatory action?
Sue Connelly, LCSW

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9:46 pm EDT

YouTube fortnite android

Its fake he has comments disabled and we cant see how many dislikes we never see him actually play i keep seeing these fake ads and its really annoying and i bet it makes people mad when they fall for it and then it says he has no videos and this needs to stop you cant be making that much money off these adds because most people wont fall for it and youtube keep this in mind we wouldnt know fortnite for Android was out by an ad wich channel creators have no videos and its downloaded by an unknown resource wich fortnite would be on the play store

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10:56 pm EDT
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YouTube posting that was taken down

I am furious with the excuse you gave me family about their posting. My cousin lost her 3 month old baby and wanted to put a tribute for those who cannot physically he here. She said due to the music she chose you deleted the posting. What's the policy when I see nothing but videos with music playing?
With everything that were going through I feel its ridiculous to pick on us.

Posting :gk1xhysy_eg0-

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YouTube popcorn ceiling patch repair

The below videos were made by people who took my popcorn patch idea and created video's. I have Patents on my Popcorn Patch product which is the exact product that are in the below video. I would like these videos taken off of Youtube immediately. I am the patent holder of the ONLY Popcorn Ceiling patch and these videos are an infringement of my product
My US patent numbers are: 9, 624, 664 B2 and 9, 896, 853 B2. If any questions call me at [protected] or email to [protected]@yahoo.com (Jennifer Judd Popcorn Patch LLC).
VIDEO'S TO BE REMOVED BELOW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjThCAyy2p4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkXYONeUrdQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGZ2j3pBtms

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9:29 am EDT

YouTube youtube advertisements

Hello,

I have changed my google/youtube ad settings, putting in that I do not like Horror Movies in my ad settings. I would hope that this would prevent horror film trailers from appearing in the ads that appear before I watch youtube videos. Due to my children watching youtube videos on my account (my children are 6 and 3) I wanted to ensure nothing scary could come up and disturb them while they are watching videos on the site. After changing my ad settings, however, I still notice horror movie trailers showing before videos, and this has scared my children.

How can I go about making sure that horror movie trailers NEVER play during my youtube video watching experience? I don't mind ads, lots of great ads exist. But I don't want my children exposed to horror movie trailers.

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12:50 pm EDT

YouTube random demonetization, lack of notifications

Dear YouTube.

YouTube used to be a fun place to watch videos whenever and wherever I wanted to. I am also subscribed to more than 40 you-tubers and I only receive like 8 videos everyday. I know its not their fault, it...

I was planing on to start my you tube Chanel but if this goes on like this i will either go to twitch and other live stream apps.

This is not good for you tube and the creators is busy loosing subs becos of this.

Pleas fix it.

Johan Uys

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