YouTube admits error over Bitcoin video purge

[imstillthebest]

so all of those removals were only a mistake on the youtube's side  ? thats good and whats more gooder is that they admit it and they appolized on public   . i think cryptoer's should be fine now and not to worry that much about thier remaining videos and also on the videos that they will be uploaded in the future   .  its also nice to hear that they are now decentralized video sharing sites posted on the op   . its a good alternative to try for the starters if they are about to make crypto related videos  .

[White Christmas]

Like what I have been said from my past posts or comment, YouTube and the people who are controlling behind it that sometimes they are making some wrong moves and it is normal because not all people are always making good and doesn't know how to makes wrong so it is like on youtube that it is not perfect in which they make some mistakes sometimes, but the best part of it is the YouTube admits that it is their fault so that they will be able to recover those videos that they deleted who are videos that are related to cryptocurrency or bitcoin. Bitcoin video purge must end right now and that was what happen right now which is good yhst youtube knows their mistakes.

[chaoscoinz]

I bet this might have caused quite a stir up within the cryptocurrency related content creator community within youtube. I would be be madder than a hornet if they not only demonitized my content but remove it as well? I hear that it was a sweep removal of all things crypto related, including the educational channels, not just the those offering investment advice.
   This seems like good news that they were able to acknowledge their fault and correct the mistake without much hassle. I thought it was a sweep stemming from regulatory uncertainty, due to the legal guidance being sparse. An alternative platform maybe be needed as a backup for future reference.

[alyssa85]

I agree with you that's a good initiative,but it's not good enough to convince Youtubers to migrate. Youtube makes a good living for most decent popular Youtubers thanks to ads,decentralized platforms like D Tube can never earn you good money like Youtube.At most,you can earn 40% what you earn in Youtube and this without even taking n consideration the volatility of the crypto market and therefore even those earnings aren't guaranteed.People should understand that being Youtuber nowadays ia a job,if you want to replace Youtube,you should offer the same guaranteed earnings or bigger,otherwise it's not worth the risk.

Actually you can earn much more on D Tube than on Youtube, because you get paid in Steem from people upvoting your content (the steem allocated is basically what's being mined in the seven day period the video is up).

Whereas Google pays a few cents to a few lucky people who manage to get people not to skip their ad.

[iamsheikhadil]

It's either a good call from them or they have a hidden agenda lol. Because Google company which heads YouTube is still under the anti crypto US government and hence I believe it will still not be wise to trust them.

[rdbase]

My guess is that they unleashed some algorithm that was meant to take down the crypto investment advice videos, but for some reason it has nuked the whole channels - maybe there's some sort of autoban which removes all videos from a channel if it already removed a lot of videos from it.

Also, you say "Bitcoin video purge" in the title, but the article says "cryptocurrency videos", and it's a really big difference, cause as far as I'm aware, educational Bitcoin videos weren't removed.

Yes such as shilling projects turning out to be projects which scam people out of their cryptocurrency.
I was under the impression it was due to Plus token, Cloudtoken and HEX coin coming out of the woodwork as scams defrauding millions from its customers.
https://coinspace.com/news/global/youtube-banning-cryptocurrency-related-content

[Wintersoldier]

I've saw a meme just a minute ago, and I couldn't find it right now, so I just want to share it in relation to the topic, since youtube claimed that there is an error in their system that results to the deletion of the cryptocurrency-related contents from some youtubers, there is a spike of news regarding XRP getting 1500dollar in the near future. And for us, this is an example of a market manipulation because we all know that XRP isn't that decentralized and it could result to being biased on the side of youtube.

[Blackdeath]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50924494

YouTube has reinstated hundreds of crypto-currency related channels after admitting it had removed them "in error".

A wave of YouTubers received notifications that their videos were in breach of the platform's terms of service earlier this week.

The move appeared to target smaller channels and publishers that focused on Bitcoin and crypto-currency content.

The Google-owned video sharing platform has since apologised for the mistake.

YouTube said in a statement that it had "made the wrong call" and confirmed that any content mistakenly removed would be restored.

"With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call," it said.

"When it's brought to our attention that a video has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it."

It said there had been no changes to its polices, and insisted there would be "no penalty" to any channels that were affected by the incident.

Despite the apologies, I still think bitcoin video enthusiasts should migrate to decentralised video hosting sites like D tube: https://d.tube/

Maybe it could be a mistake. I just thought that maybe the reason why YouTube started to delete some of those crypto related videos in their site because there are a lot of scam projects that was advertise in YouTube. Good thing that YouTube approves that all of those was just a mistake because other people assumes that every crypto content and advertise social media sites like twitter and facebook would be the next.

[joshy23]

I've saw a meme just a minute ago, and I couldn't find it right now, so I just want to share it in relation to the topic, since youtube claimed that there is an error in their system that results to the deletion of the cryptocurrency-related contents from some youtubers, there is a spike of news regarding XRP getting 1500dollar in the near future. And for us, this is an example of a market manipulation because we all know that XRP isn't that decentralized and it could result to being biased on the side of youtube.

Still up to supporters and listeners if they will believe with such news. Market manipulations already exist since then and if ever someone creates such news we can't avoid that there's people who are going to buy those news and create fomos. YouTube don't have any relations with such ideas even they've admits this mistakes it's investors obligations to take care of their money.

[Zionatin]

Thank you for the link https://d.tube/ Really nice and it is fairly popular and supported by its own coin and best of all its fully decentralized to fully uncensored just the ways things should be.

I guess it was some sort of bot I don't know, I guess we will never know. At least they said sorry though. Facebook wouldn't have the decency to apologise. So at least give them credit for that. I hope all the videos get reinstated asap since this is quite worrying for me to see.

[Oceat]

I still doubt their decision even though they said they would restore those deleted/affected crypto related videos. It's more likely a test to them which somehow an authority is involved again. Well, this is just my opinion a baseless opinion. but nonetheless the most important thing is they didn't wipe out every crypto related videos.

Sometimes we all make mistakes but most importantly we apologize after what we've done. Although the damage has been done it's already a lesson to everyone.

[squatter]

Decentralized is good but you cant stop people not to use up the largest network when it comes to video sharing and monetizing yet we know on how big it is when it comes to network/users.

Decentralization sucks when it comes to social media platforms that need to process extremely large video files. It's people who keep talking about how important decentralized youtube alternatives are, but they work like crap and are extremely costly to scale to any useable scale. Not in a thousands years will they even remotely challenge youtube. It's nothing but a crypto coiner's wet dream.

Sad but true. Decentralized alternatives to Facebook and Twitter have met the same fate.

Interestingly, Jack Dorsey is pushing the idea of an open-source decentralized standard for social media, and he claims that Twitter will eventually adopt it. I'll believe it when I see it.

[tartibaya]

Youtube has already accepted the error. However, there are few who believe that this is a mistake. I think they checked the market. The price of Bitcoin gained resistance to some explanations. Let's give an example. China has banned Bitcoin. India banned Bitcoin. The FED will issue bitcoin approval. Google again banned bitcoin ads. Many news such as these should not affect the price. The effects were reduced.

[Asuspawer09]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50924494

YouTube has reinstated hundreds of crypto-currency related channels after admitting it had removed them "in error".

A wave of YouTubers received notifications that their videos were in breach of the platform's terms of service earlier this week.

The move appeared to target smaller channels and publishers that focused on Bitcoin and crypto-currency content.

The Google-owned video sharing platform has since apologised for the mistake.

YouTube said in a statement that it had "made the wrong call" and confirmed that any content mistakenly removed would be restored.

"With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call," it said.

"When it's brought to our attention that a video has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it."

It said there had been no changes to its polices, and insisted there would be "no penalty" to any channels that were affected by the incident.

Despite the apologies, I still think bitcoin video enthusiasts should migrate to decentralised video hosting sites like D tube: https://d.tube/

I don't think that it is an automatically banned thing but still youtube was called it a mistake and going to fix it soon.

I think this statement was already enough to fix all the problems of all of the deleted and blocked videos of the cryptocurrency content creators from youtube.

[dimastegar]

Despite the apologies, I still think bitcoin video enthusiasts should migrate to decentralised video hosting sites like D tube: https://d.tube/

As a youtube user, I was a little surprised by what happened yesterday. YouTube has made an apology and we already know the reason. So in the future we also need to be careful in creating crypto content on YouTube. Try that the content that we create does not contain speculation that can harm many people. And we also shouldn't spread links without shortening them first. Use a URL Shortener website such as https://bitly.com/ when it spreads both descriptive and commented links.

[gmakaveli]

As a youtube user, I was a little surprised by what happened yesterday. YouTube has made an apology and we already know the reason. So in the future we also need to be careful in creating crypto content on YouTube. Try that the content that we create does not contain speculation that can harm many people. And we also shouldn't spread links without shortening them first. Use a URL Shortener website such as https://bitly.com/ when it spreads both descriptive and commented links.

I agree having to take more responsibility with crypto content, but YT (Google, for that matter) haven't surprised me at all. It's a humongous corporation dependent on money therefore political and financial spheres as well

[buyinbtc]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50924494

YouTube has reinstated hundreds of crypto-currency related channels after admitting it had removed them "in error".

A wave of YouTubers received notifications that their videos were in breach of the platform's terms of service earlier this week.

The move appeared to target smaller channels and publishers that focused on Bitcoin and crypto-currency content.

The Google-owned video sharing platform has since apologised for the mistake.

YouTube said in a statement that it had "made the wrong call" and confirmed that any content mistakenly removed would be restored.

"With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call," it said.

"When it's brought to our attention that a video has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it."

It said there had been no changes to its polices, and insisted there would be "no penalty" to any channels that were affected by the incident.

Despite the apologies, I still think bitcoin video enthusiasts should migrate to decentralised video hosting sites like D tube: https://d.tube/

Well on dtube the only way to get paid is with the dtube shitcoins which is no where near as much as on youtube. This is due to a fact that different companies can advertise on family friendly content and that is why youtube became so big over the years. As the nature of dtube is that it is decentralized, the same results are impossible to achieve. Decentralization is not a solution to every problem in the world, remember that.

[unsigned_long_long]

Google made a real shitty move by deleting all those crypto channels on Christmas day. Whoever was behind this decision probably thought the price would tank but it didn't. It held firm, because crypto doesn't need YT or Google.

In a few years Google will be yesterday's tech. They're already starting to crumble. They can't make any money from Youtube, all their products seem to fail. Loot at Stadia, Google Office. another faied product. They make no money from these products. Google still makes over 90% of their revenue from ad words. But people are finally getting wise to their spying and intrusions into their privacy, not to mention their censorship.

They hate crypto because crypto scares the shit out of them, as do decentralized apps which they cannot control or ban at a whim. Google want to be a bank now. That's probably part of the reason for their anti-crypto stance. Let them be a bank. They'll probably fail at that too.

[Sadlife]

That error was pretty much specific only to bitcoin influencers dont you think ? someone could be pulling the strings thinking they could bring down crypto by this kinds of attack,
but anyway if youtube says its an error then maybe it is,  we dont actually know how their algorithm works and if someday if youtube gets monetized and strict we should consider finding other sources than youtube right now.

[Asmonist]

It seems like they need to manage it properly to avoid that error again. As they said they need a team to focus on it and definitely they can secure it this time. Hopefully there are clear arrangements on this as bitcoin payments are part of online payments and digital platform activities.