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Yesterday the popular YouTubers 'The Iconoclast' and 'Way of the World' had their entire channels deleted with little explanation. Both channels were in good standing and had hundreds of thousands of subscribers who loved their videos which talked about issues that many of us are deeply concerned with. YouTube is not promoting free speech and is abusing its powers as a platform and targetting people who have differing political opinions to them, without explanation or offering a way for any offending content to be amended. This has to stop as they shouldn't be breaking the first amendment.

I use YouTube daily, one of my favourite channels is The Iconoclast which you have just deleted. 200, 000 other people had subscribed to this channel so it's pretty popular. When you delete a channel like this you are effectively saying that all of us are guilty of some 'thought crime', that if we like this channel and it's posts we are hateful people. We are not. You are censoring dissent - how undemocratic is that. Society only moves forward because people have the courage to challenge accepted ideas. The world was once flat, without dissenters proving otherwise, we'd still be living in the dark ages. YouTube does not need to 'protect' me from difficult ideas, I am an adult, I need to challenge my perceptions and make up my own mind whether to agree or disagree with what someone says. If you continue to censor channels by demonetisation, putting them in limited state or removal you will be changing Society and not in the way you wish. You will be creating an authoritarian intolerant social platform that must be challenged, you are in effect encouraging all your loyal viewers to decide whether they wish to be associated with your high handed totalitarian methods. I know I will not. Please show some integrity and reinstate The Iconoclast.

I use YouTube daily, one of my favourite channels is The Iconoclast which you have just deleted. 200, 000 other people had subscribed to this channel so it's pretty popular. When you delete a channel like this you are effectively saying that all of us are guilty of some 'thought crime', that if we like this channel and it's posts we are hateful people. We are not. You are censoring dissent - how undemocratic is that. Society only moves forward because people have the courage to challenge accepted ideas. The world was once flat, without dissenters proving otherwise, we'd still be living in the dark ages. YouTube does not need to 'protect' me from difficult ideas, I am an adult, I need to challenge my perceptions and make up my own mind whether to agree or disagree with what someone says. If you continue to censor channels by demonetisation, putting them in limited state or removal you will be changing Society and not in the way you wish. You will be creating an authoritarian intolerant social platform that must be challenged, you are in effect encouraging all your loyal viewers to decide whether they wish to be associated with your high handed totalitarian methods. I know I will not. Please show some integrity and reinstate The Iconoclast.

Hello,
I am Sophie Russell and I am here to complain about Youtube removing messager. I have a boyfriend of 1 year and he is currently over in Argentina. I cannot contact him via any other social media application since my phone is broken and I will not be able to get one anytime soon due to finances. I am a person with a heartbreaking history and my boyfriend is the only literal light to my life. Please don't take this away too.

I typed 'O Swallow, Swallow Gustav Holst' hoping to listen to a couple of performances of this lovely trio with piano accompaniment. You can imagine my shock and disgust when I was presented with videos of men and women performing sex acts which involved sucking and swallowing. I was disgusted. If there are no rules that prevent videos of this sort of revolting behaviour being uploaded and shared with the wider world, the videos should at least be X-Rated and only available on request - not simply presented to the unsuspecting and innocent. I intend to take this further.

I am absolutely furious with YouTube's creator support. I have been unable to speak with anyone from YouTube since June 14th 2019 after my channel was terminated without consultation or communication. My faxes and twitter messages are being ignored including a subject access request I submitted requesting YouTube to provide me with all of the personal data they are holding about me. This has been ignored which is a serious breach of GDPR EU law. My channel was unfairly terminated following having a channel in good standing for ten years. The termination has had a big impact on my business and other organisations who I collaborate with.

To whomever it may concern.
I have clicked stop seeing this add about 100 times and it keeps showing up on my youtube feed, I have no interest in gay dating apps nore have I ever searched them up, I would appreciate it if youtube could stop them showing in my feed like I have asked 100 times, it is getting very frustrating.

(Link to add, https://youtu.be/7fxaXcHp-mA)

I keep getting a pop up telling me about "Changes to Youtubes Terms of Service". I can click on OK or Review, and then it appears again and regularly throughout my use of the site. This has occured for 2 weeks and is frustrating. Please turn it off! Its very annoying. Please be advised that there is no button to accept this change or any other setting!
Grrr

Okay, I have been patience with this bot. I do NOT as an American Citizen have any clue, nor am I interested in the algorithms (a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer) of your system that has decided for me preferences.

I am offended.

I will not accept this kind of disrespect.

I am willing to adhere to rules however your rules are out of bounds.

Please adjust your code.

best Regards

Kathleen Prevost

The comments are disabled by youtube on my videos but there are no children or minors in my videos! Even my videos of my cats and my college karate class video have the comments disabled. I'm really sick of this and would like it to be fixed. Reenabling it manually doesnt work either, and I've tried multiple times to enable comments but when I save and go to the video, comments are still disabled, and I go back to enable and see its disabled but clicked enable comments never works no matter how many times I do it. Also, some of my videos are age restricted which I dont understand since it's just my feet and my cats. I would appreciate some feed back and help to resolve this.

Alaattin61

This youtuber spreads out encouragement for speeding on the roads, breaks any rule for safe driving. I am a Turkish American, in Turkey every summer hundreds of people die on traffic accidents due to drivers like this person. I strongly encourage your company to investigate this and ban the channel.

My name is Sancar Eke MD FASN, can reach me at [protected]@hotmail.com

yeah so what's up with all these ads? Every single video I watch I watch 2 ads, then try to go onto my next video and have to watch 2 MORE ADS. YouTube, stop letting everybody puts ads to everything and more importantly YOU stop putting so many ads. I'm really thinking about deleting YouTube (I've had it for 5 years now) and that sucks because I really enjoy watching my videos and not being interrupted by random [censored] my entire time. Ruins my experience on your platform.

Friday August 2 2019
A dam ad of Jack Daniel's twice in a row being advertised to me! Even though my account has my age 19 i'm not at all 21! So why is this bing played to me? It's highly inappropriate. Even though there is coke zero in the ad. The ad is labeled by the Jack Daniel's company. The first time it played I reported it as inappropriate. Then the next ad I get is is the same alcohol ad! Why is your company playing adult beverage ads to miners?! I was also watching a video more targeted for kids about kids products. Please repair this ad viewership it is bad for your company and young audiences.

If you want to contact me about this please call [protected] my name is Lois. Claire. V

This morning i have been harassed by a individual/group saying they would upload a video of mine that has been hacked from my phone.
They have asked for money from me and have posted it in the name of TITUS MATHEW JERKING OFF SCANDAL.

i had reported it as a sexual content, but im afraid if it will get uploaded again in future. Please look into this and i wuld like to hear back from you .

Hoping you could resolve this..

Thanks and Regards

Titus Mathew

There is an advertisement for a new film called good boys appearing before video clips accesable by my children ie computer gaming, cars ect which I think is highly innapropriate. The advert shows pretty much how to type porn into a search engine, shows the actors playing in a sex swing and they are told it is a sex swing, another add shows them holding sex toys and asking what Anal beads are. My kids are 5 and 12 and youtube has exposed them to this and I am extremely dissapointed and angry. I am expecting questions that I dont think I can answer to a child. Please review the advert immediatly and have it shown where appropriate if that is even possible?

Youtube is continuing to demonstrate bias and suppression toward Christian people and businesses. The Mighty Oaks Foundation ad was removed for "unacceptable" content, because they used a search keyword of "Christian". When resubmitted with the word "Muslim", they were not censored.
I am not complaining about the acceptance of Muslim. All religious keywords should be allowed equally. Google linked businesses are very anti-Christian.

Although I have no recollection of this, according to a company called PM Connect running a service called 3Pointer.TV, on 22/05/2019 20:44:01 I unknowingly subscribed to a premium mobile service by clicking/tapping twice on one of their advertisements placed in a YouTube video:

http://gb.3pointer.tv/?refid=57-catchalltheaction-three-yt-resp&placement=youtube.com

This has cost me £36.00 which I am trying to recover. I understand that YouTube derives income from advertising, but if these practises are allowed to continue, I can assure you I won't be using it anymore.

Dear Sir/Madam:

During the period that I used YouTube with the email address [protected]@uncc.edu, in many cases I saw video suggestions that was not proper for a male audience, I saw a recommendations like "Dating advice for women".In the setting section my gmail account I entered my gender identity as a male, and I can also provide you governmental, and even medical confirmation that I am a male, but I still receive similar recommendations.I think it is a sexual abuse to put videos that are designed for opposite sex.

I am very disturbed seeing that YouTube is allowing this pro Russia / pro China propaganda newspaper "The Epoch Times" to purchase advertising space. Why is YouTube not preventing this and investigating who is buying ad space? Particularly in this time where an adversarial country(ies) is trying to invade our election processes. It's disgusting. I am very likely going to report this to the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Federal Communications Commission. What will YouTube not do to make a dollar. Disgusting. Please reply to this complaint otherwise I will assume it is ending up in the garbage with your other legitimate complaints.

This is making me so infuriated this is not the first time I have seen this and if people are paying to be trending on YouTube then I think that classes as blackmail and is illegal.
I am angry that videos shown in the top of the trending list are not the one's with the most popular views my favourite rapper NF has 250, 000 views on his song Change which is more than Boris Johnson's video and his song is amazing and should be in the top trending it isn't even listed what a disgrace. Sort it out. No excuses.
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