YouTube continues to ban crypto content

[Yaunfitda]

According to this article, YouTube continues to ban crypto content; No one knows the reason!. Last December they ban a lot of 'legitimate crypto website'. But lately though, we have seen hundreds if not thousands of fake giveways, and with the Covid-19 pandemic, perhaps there are more crypto related scams appearing on Youtube.

I agree with the ban of crpyto related scams, and they should focus on it. However, if some legit channels are going to be affected, then they have to look at their process of banning, just saying.

[BlackFor3st]

According to this article, YouTube continues to ban crypto content; No one knows the reason!. Last December they ban a lot of 'legitimate crypto website'. But lately though, we have seen hundreds if not thousands of fake giveways, and with the Covid-19 pandemic, perhaps there are more crypto related scams appearing on Youtube.

I agree with the ban of crpyto related scams, and they should focus on it. However, if some legit channels are going to be affected, then they have to look at their process of banning, just saying.

YouTube channel should make a better move this time in separating the scam channel from a legitimate one and for the channel owners, make sure also to double check every rules and regulations of YouTube so you can avoid this from happening.

This happened last year but the YouTube gave a statement that they created a mistake and they un-ban the legitimate crypto channels so I am hoping that they are not doing the same mistake again. It will be good also if you can drop some legit channels that were being banned by YouTube so we can check whether they are now banning the whole crypto channels or those scam channels only.

[Janation]

According to this article, YouTube continues to ban crypto content; No one knows the reason!. Last December they ban a lot of 'legitimate crypto website'. But lately though, we have seen hundreds if not thousands of fake giveways, and with the Covid-19 pandemic, perhaps there are more crypto related scams appearing on Youtube.

I agree with the ban of crpyto related scams, and they should focus on it. However, if some legit channels are going to be affected, then they have to look at their process of banning, just saying.

A lot of legitimate channels are affected by this and that is just frustrating.

As far as I know last month, Ivan on tech was temporarily banned by YouTube and I think that is just unfair considering there are making content just like other content creators and their main content surrounds cryptocurrency. I think the main reason is that the fact that cryptocurrencies are decentralized and I think the platform is looking at it as a way to be against the government.

[DevilSlayer]

It is because of scam related contents, there are many users of youtube have been reported that they been scammed because they followed the tips and recommendations of the youtubers. The youtube is only doing the right way in order to prevent more issues about scams but it is not okay that all of the videos about cryptocurrencies should be removed because there are some that have legit information.

[Sanugarid]

It is because of scam related contents, there are many users of youtube have been reported that they been scammed because they followed the tips and recommendations of the youtubers. The youtube is only doing the right way in order to prevent more issues about scams but it is not okay that all of the videos about cryptocurrencies should be removed because there are some that have legit information.

This is not a smart move for youtube I guess, since there are really a legit crypto channels relying on youtube but once there are people calling it scam that has been reported to youtube without any given credentials that might be a lose for their platform coz what if that is just another channel showing disrespect to others? I get it, there are bunch of scams every where, I don't know what procedures the youtube are doing with reported channels but I hope they are considering the side of the channel as well. Youtube shouldn't be too supportive either way.

[kaneki007]

It is because of scam related contents, there are many users of youtube have been reported that they been scammed because they followed the tips and recommendations of the youtubers. The youtube is only doing the right way in order to prevent more issues about scams but it is not okay that all of the videos about cryptocurrencies should be removed because there are some that have legit information.

If it is like that, the promoter should have told the audience or subscribers to understand the risks when investing, and not all crypto youtubers promote or make videos about new projects or projects that have just launched IEO. There are some of them who only do daily trading, and now it looks like they are switching platforms.

[matchi2011]

It is because of scam related contents, there are many users of youtube have been reported that they been scammed because they followed the tips and recommendations of the youtubers. The youtube is only doing the right way in order to prevent more issues about scams but it is not okay that all of the videos about cryptocurrencies should be removed because there are some that have legit information.

If this is the real reason, why Youtube allowed other contents, like ˜traditional" investments, stocks etc?
There are tons of this content on youtube and I didn't see any content being removed like cryptos

We need clear guidelines regarding to this action from YouTube, crypto related channels shouldn't be affected by this massive banning if they'll
provide information to those owners so complying will be more easier.
Though it weight from those reported scam the focused should not be in all or generalize but it should be sorted properly.

[pooya87]

just like before, unless you can show at least one example of an actually legitimate cryptocurrency related content that was removed i am going to say it was justified because all the "contents" i have seen have been either scams advertising some sort of shitcoin or ICO or have been misleading people into losing money in trading disguised as "expert traders" and "trading signals".

as an example of useful content that will never be removed you can always look at Andreas Antonopoulos videos.

[bgaf]

I agree with the ban of crpyto related scams, and they should focus on it. However, if some legit channels are going to be affected, then they have to look at their process of banning, just saying.

I cant say that the article is totally good. Yes crypto scam on YouTube is increasing but this will affect those legit one that gives true giveaway.

But we must check the authencity of the users so we wouldnt not fall to scams. One thing also, the purpose of comment section is to give feedback, people can use it to know the content if its legit or not. Regardless, I know lots of users shill and fake their review but this somehow let us go back to realization that there are some who will still see its being fake.

[KnightElite]

just like before, unless you can show at least one example of an actually legitimate cryptocurrency related content that was removed i am going to say it was justified because all the "contents" i have seen have been either scams advertising some sort of shitcoin or ICO or have been misleading people into losing money in trading disguised as "expert traders" and "trading signals".

as an example of useful content that will never be removed you can always look at Andreas Antonopoulos videos.

Viewers are often reporting the videos in the support of youtube because of the contents that are about recommendation into cryptocurrencies ir any project that can be considered as scam. Trading signals also are one of the videos that should be removed because there is no such legit groups where can give you consistent earning in the market. It is better if the youtube will really delete videos that can scam other people.

[Wexnident]

Legit is a hard thing to find, especially with how the market is. The analysis wouldn't cut it since some are just spouting bs in the first half and then proceeds to advertise shitcoins in the second half. I doubt YT has the time to actually filter properly what content is good and what content is not, especially since the crypto scene in terms of videos and the like isn't really that developed. If factual knowledge were presented like definitions and the like, then it's possible, but if it's a vague idea that can be seen as a form of advertisement and or scam, then YT has every right to proceed with their actions.

[davis196]

Now I'm searching Youtube using the keyword "bitcoin" and thousands of videos appear in the search results.Most of the videos are published in the last 24 hours and most of them have at least a few thousand views.It seems that everything is alright and Youtube doesn't ban all Bitcoin related content.
I don't know what's going on with altcoin/shitcoin/ICO videos.I don't watch such videos and most of those videos deserve to get banned,because they are scam.

[boyptc]

Now I'm searching Youtube using the keyword "bitcoin" and thousands of videos appear in the search results.Most of the videos are published in the last 24 hours and most of them have at least a few thousand views.It seems that everything is alright and Youtube doesn't ban all Bitcoin related content.
I don't know what's going on with altcoin/shitcoin/ICO videos.I don't watch such videos and most of those videos deserve to get banned,because they are scam.

I did as well and I can't believe that there's an article like this. It's fresh and published recently.

I have a question, is that website even a reliable source?

[KrisAlex18]

Indeed, youtube does not allow crypto videos to be posted, one of their rules is no crypto content, I really don't think the reason behind that, crypto content is really helpful because there are so many people who loves crypto and is willing to learn about it and one of the best way that we are using for us to learn something is the youtube, before I became interested in cryptotalk so I research about it and I search it in youtube but nothing good appears as well as this forum.

But on my opinion the reason why they have been banned the crypto content is because there are so many scammed crypto websites and youtube will not let this happen so they provide rules about it.

[Eugenar]

That's true, I have watched a video about crypto before on youtube and then while reading comment sections I have read that someone suggested to delete the video because one of the rules of youtube is no crypto content,  so the next day I watch again on his channel and he talk about the video he posted yesterday, saying that he already deleted it and giving gratitude to the person who commented about the rules.

I really don't know why youtube made that rules about banning crypto content, crypto has been used by many people around the world like is and we want a continuous learning which we can learn well by watching on youtube  for me youtube is the best platform to learn things, just like some tutorials, we can learn more if we can see it while being performed.

[Jating]

According to this article, YouTube continues to ban crypto content; No one knows the reason!. Last December they ban a lot of 'legitimate crypto website'. But lately though, we have seen hundreds if not thousands of fake giveways, and with the Covid-19 pandemic, perhaps there are more crypto related scams appearing on Youtube.

Weird. I thought that after the first wave of bans around the December, they should have a list of which is legit and trusted. And that they shouldn't get the boot again if there are new bans.

I agree with the ban of crpyto related scams, and they should focus on it. However, if some legit channels are going to be affected, then they have to look at their process of banning, just saying.

Yes, the problem is that as we have said, those legit channels. So I wouldn't be surprised that they complains about this new wave. Besides, there should be a new of rules about the banning. Google and Youtube have fuck up again and those legit channels might look for a better decentralised video based alternative here.

[Coyster]

I am very sure this must have been a very tough decision for youtube to make, cryptocurrency videos and topics are no longer commonplace, many people post a lot of videos to teach new people a lot of things and also how to trade. But the scam videos and content seems to have outrun/exceeded the good ones, they receive a lot of reports and have to bring down so many videos everyday, I do not know if this is a permanent ban or just for sometime, but it was beyond doubt needed to save people from losing money.

[20kevin20]

I wish all these affected channels would move away from YouTube to a decentralized video platform and have success on it. YT is abusing their power way too much lately. Why was it needed to take monetization off ANY video related to the Coronavirus? Why was it needed to take down crypto channels and videos? Why is it needed to censor the videos they don't want us to see and show us only what they want?

They're so pathetic. I hope some revolutionary decentralised video platform will take off and steal YT channels away from Google.

[HatakeKakashi]

When I was a video on youtube I saw a lot of crypto advertisement that I saw but now I  see some only and I hope they can able again advertising about crypto content. I think they have a good purpose why they banning it because they see some scam project so they need to implement that but I hope they consider still the good and legit project that gives an oppotunity to the people to earn  a real money because crypto is really legit only people is the scammer of that and they are using crypto in bad ways.

[GreatArkansas]

Then we will also a lot of upcoming complaints about those crypto YouTubers. Last time about this issue was extremely devastating, some crypto channel in youtube was suffered, almost all of the videos relating to some crypto was deleted by the Youtube, even they have a lot of views and lot of subscribers in the channel but after few days, some videos were able to watch again, it seems like a warning shot from Youtube?
But for me, this is good since a lot of SHITCOIN shillers in the Youtube who luring those newbies to invest, even in ICO. But I hope youtube will be careful about banning/deleting some video.