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SpelingBeeChamp

That is not true.

I produce content for YouTube full-time.

Just a few days ago a well-performing video ended up age-restricted. It was an edge case, and could have gone either way. I appealed, and included the best argument I could put together.

A few hours later I received this:

We have reviewed your appeal for the following content:

[the video title]

After taking another look, we can confirm that your content does not violate our Community Guidelines.

Thanks for your patience while we reviewed this appeal. Our goal is to make sure content doesn't violate our Community Guidelines so that YouTube can be a safe place for all - and sometimes we make mistakes trying to get it right. We're sorry for any frustration our mistake caused you, and we appreciate you letting us know.

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I appeal YouTube's decisions all the time. Sometimes appeals go my way, other times they don't, but that doesn't mean there is no serious appeals process. As far as I know, almost every adverse decision can be appealed.

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About your last comment, the existence of a problem doesn't mean that government stepping in would be better.

Both of you would be right at the same time.

You raised high enough to be full-time on Youtube, you have a full history of interactions with their moderators, a track record of videos that performed well, and get to be handle by real humans.

That doesn’t mean it’s the same experience for the vast majority of creators, especially those who upload a video once in a while and have no reputation in the system.

On any Google service I think both sides exist, and the difference is usually pretty stark, like night and day.

PS: on the gov. part, the issue is that Google is economically big enough that there is no counterpart to make them do what they don’t want to. People are turning to govs. because there is basically no other recourse in many situations.

By being a content creator, you are a money maker for them. Even so, you probably got lucky. thunderf00t has gotten in trouble loads of times for doing nothing but outing bad science. Same with CoffeeZilla and a thousand other YouTubers. I myself got my channel delisted from recommendations entirely (a shadow ban essentially) for making a Covid precaution video about different types of NIOSH masks..

Imagine you, as a full time content producer, have been banned from YouTube for good, just because. Your appeal ended up the same way as for OP "response within less than 15 minutes that they appeal has been rejected and that no further replies will be processed". Would you want the government involvement in this case?

NoWayDude.

I think the whole point is that OP appealed, got hard rejection and can't escalate or even compromise.

Now their unrelated YouTube Music account is locked

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