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You have banned my national flag from existence within your platform, there is no reason for this at all, you haven't given me a reason why I cannot patriotically display my flag and therefore you are an enemy of my nationality, I couldn't care less if you dislike or like my country as you are a citizen of the U.S.A although not so much United anymore are you?

Desired outcome: Revoke the ridiculous ban on the Saint Georges cross

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YouTube purchased movies

i have no access to the movies i purchased

Desired outcome: i want what i paid for

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YouTube Take down of a video by youtube

I uploaded a video on Youtube and Youtube took the video down claiming that it was taken down for bullying and harassment. I never even spoke on the video and just posted information that the public already had access to. Youtube is acting like the bully in taking down content that does not go against community guidelines. They are biased and quite actually use Youtube as the bully pulpit by not allowing content creators to express themselves. There is a family on Youtube that is constantly reporting videos to Youtube and Youtube has been striking videos, left and right. This needs to stop; the fact that one family is allowed to reign over Youtube as if they own it just because one member of that particular family has 3 million subscribers. Smaller Youtubers are being taken off Youtube and this is being done deliberately. There needs to be an oversight agency or committee to look into unfair practices by Youtube aka Google.

Desired outcome: I want my video re-uploaded to Youtube because there was nothing wrong with it.

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YouTube Strike put on my channel for no reason

I done an unlisted live stream on my youtube channel wearing a bikini, showing my feet, doing a little twerking, youtube decided to put a strike on it saying there was nudity and sexual content... There was no nudity or sexual content in that video... I'm wearing a bikini, showing my feet and a little twerking for goodness sake!... I put my video's on unlisted, not to be shared with anyone but my husband... I could understand it if I was completely naked, saying some really obscene things but I didn't do any of that in this video... Sure I wear some flimsy underwear but i'm descrete about it... This happened yesterday 24th july 2021... My youtube channel is suaznne deer cuevas... I would like the strike removed, I didn't say or do anything wrong!... I can't even provide a picture of the video as they're not allowing me to even view it, I can only provide the photo i've attached.

Desired outcome: Removal of the strike!!

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BeeTheGood
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Jul 25, 2021 6:41 am EDT
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Twerking actually is sexual content. So, that would be why.

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YouTube Regarding my information being made public!

This website is TERRIBLE! You can't get a hold of anyone at their main HQ. They don't do anything about the extreme group Team Gamerfood. My mother and I had to make a police report from 2 different precincts for harassing phone calls! This sick jerk made threats to my own mother! Fusoya1, James Conrad, Team Gamerfood, Youtube Name. All of these extreme trolls need to go!

YouTube's reporting system sucks! They need an IP blacklist system to keep extreme trolls like Team Gamerfood out! This is getting out of hand and more people are getting sick of them! I'm really angry at this sick jerk! These extreme trolls need to go to prison! YouTube needs a contact where you can get a hold of a real human instead of a machine under emergency circumstances like this.

If YouTube doesn't do anything about extreme trolls like myg0t and Team Gamerfood, more people are going to get sick of YouTube and leave! I'm even at the point where I'm starting to think that YouTube doesn't care about you. They only care about this $. I have to give them a 1 star because this review won't allow me to give them a 0 stars. If I could though, I would! Even a 1 star is too generous.

YouTube, you need to start listening to your genuine content creators and stop letting these sick and twisted jerks like Team Gamerfood run your website! Start doing something about this and stop acting like you don't care! I know there are other streamers/gamers/creators who are getting sick of these extreme troll groups! This site is TERRIBLE!

Desired outcome: They need to ban these jerks off of all social media platforms! Also law enforcement needs better technology to catch these jerks!

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Flower Mound, Texas, US
Jul 22, 2021 11:10 pm EDT

YouTube ads play then I am kicked out of YouTube and must reenter to continue watching video if I can find again. Or ads play and part of video is watched, then more ads play and I am kicked out of YouTube. Is is a ploy to force me to watch YouTube by paying for AdFree service? Seems like if I am willing to watch the ads then the ad sponsor is being is being short changed as is the video uploader. This has gone on for several weeks now. YouTube has gone from one of my most watched channels to one of the most irritating and aggravating least channels and is about to be dropped from my watch list permanently. It is being absolutely ruined. Uploaders are bing driven off, then the ads, then overloading of ads, and finally getting booted out due to faulty or deliberate ad misloading. GOOGLE and NEW OWNER have seriously [censored]ed up a great channel!

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YouTube YouTube TV

I subscribe to YouTube TV. The server in Greenville, South Carolina has the MSNBC volume level set much lower than all other stations. Is this intentional? Please investigate this and restore the MSNBC volume to the same level as other news channels. Thanks.

Desired outcome: Restore MSNBC channel volume level to the same as other channels.

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YouTube Matt Talks Tech

Over 250 videos, most regurgitating common misleading rumours of leaks, no real content or product comparison or evaluation. Number of views has been tampered with to make the number seem higher, number of subs is being manipulated, comments about the channel are clearly faked, people in China, India, South America & Russia all writing perfect English grammar & word order & not a single spelling mistake.
Sponsors of channel are being defrauded.

Desired outcome: Take the channel down

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BillPem
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Jul 27, 2021 1:15 am EDT

Don’t forget that his renders of APPLE products & logos are breaches of trademarks & intellectual properties laws.

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YouTube Youtube Comments

It is important to stop the constant harassment of commenters and restore our free speech without any intervention by the CCP, Google, or Youtube. Google the owner of Youtube is a California company and both California and the U.S. have laws. Companies are not allowed to maintain hostile environments. I contacted Youtube legal and they are completely apathetic. Youtube has allowed the CCP government workers to harass and bully everyone on Youtube. Youtube does not act in the public interest like media other companies. Profit is the only driver for this company.

Desired outcome: Block the Chinese government workers from Youtube like they have blocked Youtube in China. Regular Chinese citizens cannot access the WWW.

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YouTube Local channels

Switched to Maine local viewing area for summer from south florida viewing area in winter. youtube.tv keeps switching back to south florida viewing area.i am now and have been, for the last 24 hours, viewing local ABC, NBC, CBS AND FOX from West Palm Beach stations instead of my local Portland Maine stations. This has happend frequently since returning to Maine in May. My settings reflect my correct viewing area, but the youtube tv bot refuses to remedy the problem. HINT: maybe real person customer service could prevent a customer like me from going to HULU to resolve this problem.

Desired outcome: FIX PROBLEM !!!!

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YouTube Promo

I have a monetization pending since around December, 2020 on my channel. Someone has slapped all types of ads on my videos and I don't like that since I am not the one being compensated. for my original copywritten material.
So either speed up my channel monetization process or remove all ads from playing on my channel.
https://www.youtube.com/user/lostkauzeband
Please reply.
Thanks, Kevin Foster, manager lost kauze band

Desired outcome: approve channel monetization please

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YouTube Kids city

They show a video of them playing hello neighbor video game, when you look at the plot of the game it basically is about teaching young children like my kids whom are 5 and 7 to go a strangers house that is your neighbor and that person can kidnap you, and that is fine, it's teaching kids the wrong things.

The video game that is on YouTube and various ambassadors such as kidz city show this game to be fun and cool but I am left explaining to them after they were telling me that the show then were playing it as a real life game in their house, as I learned more about and then watched the show I then realized that my kids were asking me if it is okay to knock on strangers that are Neighbours doors and if they get kidnapped that is fine as it is a game, which it is not. This context needs to be prohibited to be shown and shows like kid city need to be watched and censored about what they are allowed to show and play for their young audience such as my kid's

Desired outcome: Do not have people that have large young children followers show these inappropriate games and to pull that game from YouTube and ensure the content is never shared with anyone of your users

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9:30 pm EDT
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YouTube A foreigner telling the truth in the philippines aka gd mead

He swears, is hateful, is harassing people, trying destroy lives. Just a very angry person willing to destroy people at all cost. Is behind hacking also. He posted private information he says he got in the public domain, such as a person's private money transfers and screen shots of Messenger conversations posted on www.expatsforums.com. look under DOCUMENTS, 09, The Mitch Documents

Desired outcome: To be banned from youtube

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robertlesliedurham
Albion, AU
Jul 15, 2021 10:37 pm EDT
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nothing wrong with this Fliptop must be one of the people trolling G D Mead

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YouTube Censorship of Donald Trump July 3, 2021 speech.

Censorship of Donald Trump July 3, 2021 speech.

As a citizen of the United States I have a right to the free flow of information, specifically a speech by former President Donald Trump Saturday July 4, 2021. YouTube is infringing on my rights to access this lawful information by censoring the speech on their platform. Whether by making it hard or impossible to access or locate or possibly not allowing it on their platform. American citizens have to find a way to address this legally. The censorship monopolies must be decimated or obliterated.

Desired outcome: The free and open dissemination of all legal information regardless of political association and destruction of monopolies of information censoring information.

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11:08 pm EDT

YouTube Videos depicting animals in danger being rescued but these are staged = particularly some asians with cats and snakes.

These so called rescue videos are staged and doing them abuses the animals. You tube needs to remove them and stop others posting this type of thing. I have also seen animals buried up to heads in dirt same Asian boy as others - obviously faked but not fun for animal. The humane society has become aware of these awful videos.

Also some of the cat videos meant to depict cats doing funny things are people tormenting cats to get them to attack etc. - not funny if you are the cat. I am a cat lover and would never do this to a cat.

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2:53 pm EDT

YouTube A video I am apparently not allowed to watch

I would really care to know why I am unable to watch a video without having to either give my credit card details or my id? Youtube has my google account. you know my details.

The video in question is 'Rammstein -Radio'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0NfI2NeDHI

I honestly just find it appalling that you need these details to apparently verify my age? for a video that I have watched several times before when you have all of my details to begin with. Especially since the only apparent reason is because of female bodies? male bodies are fine. but not female bodies! blasphemes and must be hidden!

I am just disgusted honestly.

Desired outcome: Maybe just let people watch videos who are logged into their accounts without being pedantic? (yes I am mad, in case it wasn't obvious)

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5:28 pm EDT
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YouTube Censorship

YouTube has begun censoring my posts secretly. They appear to me, but not to others. I found this out by logging in from another account and none of my posts appear. This is largely due to the fact YouTube is one sided regarding their position with both social and political views and they remove any posts they don't like while leaving the posts of those views they agree with. They have total disregard for free speech rights or freedom of expression rights. They don't have to agree with opinions, but they sure as hell shouldn't be able to censor them, this HAS to be illegal.

Desired outcome: Action needs to be taken to prosecute YouTube for violations of people's rights, they have gotten way out of hand with the censorship.

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Ellami
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Jul 18, 2021 2:29 am EDT

Are you interested in suing YouTube for censorship?

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1:36 pm EDT

YouTube Censoring

YouTube is breaking the law taking away people's FREEDOM OF SPEECH! They are hiding THE TRUTH! YouTube is bias, discriminating against all races, demonetizing people for no good reason, shadow banning to manipulate the truth and I could go on and on.

Desired outcome: Bring back all of the YouTubers that YouTube has cancelled, quit shadow banning, quit demonetizing and stop censoring! Stop taking away people's FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!!

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8:19 pm EDT

YouTube Censorship

I am so disappointed that you are censoring Liz Harris in Arizona. I should be able to choose if I think she says is wrong. I am an adult and can make my own decisions and I don't need you to make it for me. I live in Fl and very interested what goes on in Arizona. Don't take up communist policies and try to control what we think. I will still be able to get her, you just make in less convenient.

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YouTube Censorship

The Dark Horse Podcast has been doing a stellar job of providing scientific truth and fair reporting of the facts and hypotheses surrounding Covid-19. You are doing a great injustice by giving them 2 strikes. You are going against freedom of speech and you are potentially turning a democratic society into one of censorship. There are so many people who are benefiting from their incredible work. Why would you want to interfere with that?!

Desired outcome: For YouTube to stop censoring channels that are doing exceptional work to educate all of us!

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FranMart
London, England, Greater London, GB
Jun 29, 2021 6:56 am EDT

I completely agree with Kristy.

I would like to add that by definition scientific research deals with unknown phenomena (otherwise it would not be research). And by definition with unknown phenomena no one knows for certain what is true and what is not. The relationship between ivermectin and covid is still not certain. But the overwhelming majority of scientific analyses and meta-analyses point towards ivermectin being helpful in the treatment of covid 19. This is so much so, that Oxford University is doing a huge ramdomised trial (worth millions) to test this hypothesis. However, until we actually can see this study (protocol and results) the "current" best information we have is that it seems to work.

Therefore it is really shameful that youtube has censored their opinions. If YouTube wants to censor scientists it should at least back their decisions with scientifics papers and open a forum for discussion.
All the Dark Horse Podcast has been doing is asking for more data.

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YouTube Removed my channel without offering any explanations.

#1: YouTube deleted my channel on 1/13/2021 for severe & repeated community guidelines violations even though they've never specified, nor have they ever even once indicated to me in advance, as to which community violations I've committed; whatever violations that YouTube may perceive as violations that I've allegedly committed, being that it might be any disparaging & untoward comments, contents, etc., et. al., please get YouTube to specify so I can remove it ASAP!
#2: On 1/13/2021, Google Account is claiming that:
A: my gmail address isn't associated with any active Google Account,
B: if my gmail address was previously associated with a Google Account it cannot be recovered unless the request is made in a short time even though I've provided them with https://www.youtube.com/willting as my URL channel, and,
C: the account never existed in spite of being in good standing with YouTube since January of 2018; this is my very first occurrence I've ever had with Youtube*(NOTE: Those screenshots below ought to be self explanatory even though I'm probably utilizing a bot; at any rate, please rectify this matter ASAP, THANKS!)*

Desired outcome: Will Ting wants my YouTube Premium channel restored.

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Ellami
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Jul 18, 2021 2:35 am EDT

Please file this complaint with the Attorney General in California.

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