Some people who follow this blog of mine might know this, but I suspect most don't. A while ago now, I started a Spanish youtube channel by myself with the idea of sharing humanistic values, and talk against bigotry.
My approach when talking about these subjects has always been kind and empathetic, but for some reason Youtube doesn't seem to think so.
Yesterday I uploaded a video of the story of the black ants to my channel. Its a fable, if you will, with the intention of transmitting a message against tribalism, against letting the hate for another group blind us into making uncontrollable choices that might backfire.
As clumsy as I may be when writing my ideas, when talking about them on videos or what have you, I doubt there is anyone who can make the argument that I was engaging in hate speech of any kind. I would even go as far as to say I was fighting hate speech, but alas, there are people out there that must have reported my content.
I did get some pushback when addressing Marian Budde on one of my videos. Maybe the people who hate cancel culture probably thought I should be cancelled for arguing that her message came from a place of love and had been distorted, but then again I might never find out.
To say I'm bummed out doesn't cut it. Yes, the channel was very small, about 61 subscribers. But I had amassed on there more than a hundred videos over the months and some of them, I think, were really good.
I filed an appeal this morning. Maybe I'll get lucky and I'll be able to recover the account, but this is just crazy to me, crazy.
MenO
A centralized and censored system, where some opinions cannot be expressed freely. I'm sorry for your situation, but unfortunately it won't be the last... 💔
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thank you kindly
I wonder what it takes to actually get a human to review things. A few years ago my channel was taken down for "providing information on illegal content". It was a crypto channel talking about how to set up wallets. Illegal? I'm sure some anti-crypto person reported it and so the rest was automatic. I appealed, it was denied. I suspect a human didn't even look. It's algorithms and bots all the way down.
Anyway, I hope your appeal goes better than mine did.
crossing my fingers
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Odysee used to allow Youtool creators to mirror their content on Odysee, which - though it might not have been as emunerative as big successful channels on Youtool can be, at least didn't cause them to lose all their content when Youtool censorship deplatformed them. I can but suggest you make such channel on Odysee, and perhaps on Rumble, because there might be just as much audience there for it, and I honestly expect you won't have to fear the loss of that content on those platforms.
I agree that your story seemed not to have elements of hate speech, at least to me, and would only note regarding Youtool that posting there is playing with fire, that has now burned you.
Sorry this happened to you.