Why YouTube Bans Bitcoin &Crypto Videos?

[Faysal Fahad]

Hello Community; as you know from the last 3 days the social media is full of this topic. What’s your opinion on it? What’s the main reason behind it?



According to me; what’s are the possibilities- 
1)   Crypto is being purge by Youtube.
2)   Attract by some kind of group intentionally.
3)   Attract from Scam Coins (Since good YouTubers telling the true story).
4)   Wrong YouTube Algorithm.
5)   Lots of Fake ICO, Crypto Exchange related videos on YouTube.

Guys, till now I am confused but I added all of my probabilities. End of the day, I am scared. Because, I have learned so many things by watching YouTube crypto videos. I can’t imagine a single day without watching my favorite’s cannel.

Whatever, now really want to know all of your opinion on this issue.

[Kemarit]

I'm sorry but why you need to be scared? I'm sure that you already learned a lot from watching youtube videos so it's about time that you practice it yourself. As far as the bans, I don't think that youtube wanted it to be permanent. Perhaps they just wanted to get rid of the bad eggs here and free their system with a lot of scammers. Nothing to be afraid of.

[avikz]

It's really unfortunate! I personally learned crypto trading techniques frkm YouTube itself. I believe, Youtube is trying to keep themselves clean from any controversial matters. YouTube has been used extensively to promote ICO and token offerings and if you look at the trend from 2017, you will see 99% of such offerings are scam! Billion of dollars have been siphoned out by these scammers in these three years!

But there must be something big going on at their end which we are not aware about or we are not able to understand yet.

[pakhitheboss]

This is what happens when you are using a centralized platform. Talking about cryptocurrency and not using a decentralised platform.

Google, Facebook and Twitter are kings in their domain, they have the right to delete and destroy anyone using their platform. That what Google did now.

Not one of them have favoured cryptocurrency in the past nor will they do in the future.

[CryptoBry]

There is nothing we can do with this except called on Google why this is being implemented and maybe ask them for a clear-cut guidelines on things related to cryptocurrency. I have to be honest that indeed there can be that need to curtail on scams and ponzi schemes being promoted on YouTube but this should not be done at the expense at those honest videos. As a centralized platform, YouTube has all the power to do whatever it wanted to. Though this is a sad move on my part, maybe YouTube could have done some previous announcement and even consultation before releasing the ax.

[blckhawk]

Whatever it might be, I think it's an isolated case, or probably a coordinated attack. It might be personal, or is related to hate on cryptocurrencies. Either way, I don't think Google has switched sides already. And I don't think they'd censor cryptocurrencies either. I also don't think they are on a crackdown on cryptocurrencies, and that it's only limited to a few.

[masulum]

I try to search information about this, but the information just came from crypto currencies blog/site related. I don't find any source from big news sites such as Forbes, Techcrunch or any technology news portal. I think this news just another FUD. I checked few YouTube channels that create ICO/IEO reviews, all of video from channel is accessible, are you sure it's not because government authorities limited crypto video's in your country?

[Eclipse26]

I don't know what's really happening of this is true. But creators should message or email YouTube to ask them why they have to remove some crypto videos. YouTube will probably answer that. We still have no announcement from YouTube itself so it's hard to say why they are doing that. I just think they should have contacted them before posting something on their other social medias for more clarifications

[moviebuff777]

It's not just cryptocurrency videos, but they are apparently also not monetizing many political videos as well.  They are adopting some more strict guidelines for some reason.

[mohdk52]

Because YouTube can not decide on the limits of what is allowed on its site. Because there are big fish who do not like to lose their money due to the fact that more and more people are beginning to delve into crypto and blockchain systems.

[FairUser]

I believe they are under pressure from the government and have to change their terms, from which they must ban all cryptocurrency-related videos and videos about ICO projects. With the current situation, I think Youtube will continue to delete more channels and videos in the near future until everything becomes clean.

[Broly46]

I’m not sure Yt would reconsider their stance once they decide to ban certain video contents, it’s interesting every major sites would always certainly unfavoring bitcoin, the steorerotype is strong among them.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

This is what happens when you are using a centralized platform.

That's certainly true, but everyone should have known about the possibilities before this and everyone knew Youtube is run by Google and that Google can do whatever it wants.  

It isn't clear to me to what extent the video deletion is happening or why they're doing it.  It's a really bad move on Youtube's part if this is some kind of crypto-wide video ban, because they're already becoming the big bad censor that everyone hates now.  I'm sure if Google had its way, it would be only mainstream media outlets who could post content on their site.  I don't think they care to host videos for people who don't draw in big revenue for them.

Screw Youtube.  Even if they didn't remove every single crypto video on their site, screw them.

[darkangel11]

It's not only crypto that is being purged. A lot of political extremists got their channels deleted or at least received warnings. This is connected to the changes of Youtube TOS according to which if you attack other people in your videos you can get a community strike. Many crypto youtubers used to talk about crypto scams like those guys who promoted bitconnect, but many others criticized and exposed these scams and also got those videos deleted.

Youtube doesn't want free speech. They don't want you to criticize or expose other people, they don't want you to dox. You are to be a silent audience that devours information they're feeding you. Time for some decentralized free media to take over!

[dothebeats]

Whatever it might be, I think it's an isolated case, or probably a coordinated attack. It might be personal, or is related to hate on cryptocurrencies. Either way, I don't think Google has switched sides already. And I don't think they'd censor cryptocurrencies either. I also don't think they are on a crackdown on cryptocurrencies, and that it's only limited to a few.

They did this on the second quarter of 2018 too, IIRC, and Google also shut down some ads relating to cryptocurrency services as well hinting that they dislike the exposure cryptocurrencies are getting within their own platforms. If I remember, they haven't fully banned crypto-related ads and videos in YouTube on 2018 but just on Google ads. But right now it seems that they are cracking down on cryptocurrencies yet again without any definite nor possible reason. Google has been acting weird, and makes me think that they might be on to something crypto-related on their own.

[Asuspawer09]

They banned cryptocurrency-related videos but I could still watch some cryptocurrency-related advertisements on youtube like etoro?
Maybe youtube is getting a lot of report about these creators I don't think this videos should be removed since they are creators they are discussing things about cryptocurrency and not particularly promoting a cryptocurrency projects that is a scam project, I could easily understand if they are just having a safety measure buy blocking scam projects but this is videos from youtube creators. Maybe youtube now hates cryptocurrency.

[2double0]

I think this is a great chance for some decentralized social media platforms to win over this situation, take full advantage of it and push all of those YouTube lovers to come to their platforms and watch those videos there by giving some rewards for the same. Like Brave gives us BAT tokens to surf in the browser, there are platforms which got covered by the dirt of Finance by having their tokens devalued since the 2018-19 disaster. Now it is the time for them to take the show in their hands and turn the tables for their projects.

[ChrisPop]

As far as I know the system is being abused by a group of individuals who are coordinating "flagging" actions so specific videos and channels get "banned" and hidden from public sight at least temporary. I don't know what are the benefits of this group caused by these actions.

[BrewMaster]

Hello Community; as you know from the last 3 days the social media is full of this topic. What’s your opinion on it? What’s the main reason behind it?

Guys, till now I am confused but I added all of my probabilities. End of the day, I am scared. Because, I have learned so many things by watching YouTube crypto videos. I can’t imagine a single day without watching my favorite’s cannel.

could you show us a couple of videos that were good and removed?
i ask this because i don't really follow any Youtube channels but i occasionally watch some stuff and ever since this news came out i re-visited most of them and they are still there.
so my guess is that they are only purging the garbage such as videos trying to gain views by pretending to do TA for bitcoin or those talking about altcoin prices and try to pump the shitcoins they bag hold,... removing these videos is an excellent decision.

[Dildo Shwaggins]

Most youtubers, basically all of them are paid shills and also abusing referals senting their audiences in scam exchanges and making them lose money.
I hope they get banned all of them as they promoted scams, shitcoins, shady schemes and got paid a lot for it.
They are not even entertaining and their live chat rooms are full of ridiculous paid shills talking about ridiculous coins they were so stupid and blind to invest in. Probably paid youtube services of bots or total retards that only irritate rational viewers.
Perhaps only Chris Dunn is an exception but he also made a paid video lately while in the past he said he didn't need to do any.
I hope they ban them as they were useless and diverting people into scams.