This has nothing to do with freedom of speech. If you don't like how youtube is treating you, use DailyMotion, don't like DailyMotion then use DTube, don't like that then choose another service, start a torrent, set up your own webserver, or choose from a myriad of other options. Youtube is a private company and can choose what content to allow or disallow. Don't like it, go somewhere else. The same thing applies to any other social network or service you find on the internet. You are not censored just because a privately owned social media organization does not want to publish your content any more than you are censored if a book publisher doesn't want to publish your book. It is a business and it is a business decision.
If youtube is capable of ruining your life then something is wrong with your life. I was a little ticked off when youtube changed its partner policies because it affected me but it isn't something to kill or be killed over. Not even remotely close. It's just a lousy way to treat customers and will ultimately be to their own detriment. But get some perspective and choose one of your many other options and move on.
Even if you treat this like losing your job, people get laid off or fired all the time. I've been laid off before. It really, really sucks but I didn't kill people because of it. People who rely on a particular social media outlet are not immune. Youtube can "fire" you at any time. Besides, youtube will not be around forever as something better will come along (and maybe already has).
Taken at face value, this woman clearly had some mental issues that had not been dealt with and Youtube was just the straw that broke the camel's back. It could have just as easily been a long line at the post office.
I looked at her web page via the wayback machine and she has been complaining about youtube since at least October 2016. Shouldn't she have moved on to a different service? She complains about her videos being age restricted but she apparently posted graphic videos and videos about the "health risks of anal sex". Doesn't it seem reasonable that Youtube might do such a thing given their public guidelines? It also does not sound like she was making much money via youtube so I'm not sure the whole being fired thing really applies anyway.
Her youtube page displays the following message currently:
"This account has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's policy against spam, deceptive practices, and misleading content or other Terms of Service violations."
I have no way of knowing if this is actually true but given her behavior it does not seem unlikely.
This brings up another issue. People are way too trusting of 3rd party services to keep their stuff. It's quite possible that this woman lost access to all of her videos (I don't know if she did or not). Normally, google provides you a way to download everything via Google takeout (I recently downloaded 100+ gigabytes of videos I've published at youtube over the years) but I don't know if they still allow you to access it when your account has been banned. If not, that might go a long way towards explaining what she was angry about. However, people really need to learn to always, always, always keep backups of all of their own stuff. Multiple backups preferably. Hard drives fail, accidents or disasters happen, and 3rd party services cannot be relied upon.
I am just saying, a lot of people are losing their jobs right now, and some of those people are going to be crazy enough to do drastic things in response
Yep, I almost lost my art business. Still barely making ends meet these days, where a couple of years ago I had a hard time keeping my art merch in stock and a waiting list for custom art almost a year long...
But this isn't the fault of Youtube per say. They aren't obligated to pay people at all, much less forever and that isn't a realistic expectation. Her mental instability is not the fault of some imagined social networking "censorship".
I never said it was youtubes fault. And the social media censorship is very real, and many people are losing their jobs because of it.
You are blaming youtube for people losing their jobs. Youtube not wishing to publish your videos is not censorship. You still have every right to publish your videos elsewhere and no one is going to stop you or put you in jail. No one is entitled to publication by a 3rd party. If a publisher doesn't wish to publish a book I write then it is not censorship. Why is it different with youtube and videos?
I think it is different because content creators were lured onto these platforms to help them build it up, under the pretense that we would be able to build our businesses there, now they sweep the rug out from under us, and cut us off from the following that we built...I think that is a pretty shitty deal
And there arent any alternatives...sure we have steemit, but only 1% the people who follow my work on facebook can even figure out how to get an account on here.
When facebook, youtube and google essentially have a cartel in online publishing, it is effectively censorship when they prevent messages from reaching people. It is different than someone getting thrown in a cage for saying something sure, but these platforms can control the diologue with the information they allow people to see and that is a form of censorship
Mentally unstable people have often gone back to their places of employment and killed people, remember when "going postal" was a term?