I got an e-mail today from YouTube informing me that they had removed a video from my YouTube Channel (3rdID8487). :mad The video was of a terrorist getting blown up by his own motar while trying to kill US Military members. The only reason they gave was that it violated the Code of Conduct of YouTube. I went and reviewed the Code of Conduct again (for like the 10th time) and could not find anywhere that I can see a violation.
Doing a little more research I found the very same video on 7 other YouTube Channels! I wonder why they could have it and not me? Is it because I post pro-military video's? Is it because its a video showing a terrorist getting killed? Can't be that, there are hunderds of those. The video has been up for a month and had over 8000 views and a 5 star rating. I have included a e-mail that I sent to YouTube asking for an explanation:
I would like to know why my video was removed from my site for violation of Guidelines. I have found the very same video on at least 7 other YouTube Channels, and they are not being removed. And should not. Your Code of Conduct
states:
Graphic or gratuitous violence is not allowed. If your video shows someone getting hurt, attacked, or humiliated, don't post it. (It was neither graphic or gratuitous, no blood or gore, and no video of even a dead body, nothing!)
YouTube is not a shock site. Don't post gross-out videos of accidents, dead bodies and stuff like that. This includes war footage if it's intended to shock or disgust. (It was not shocking or gross, it was an explosion in which no bodies, or body parts or anything else can be seen, it does not fit this or any other of the CoC list)
I read over the Guidelines and there is absolutly no violation that I can find. There was no blood or gore, no profanity or nudity. Nothing. And yet you saw fit to remove my video?
Is it because I am a pro-US Military Channel? I find that idea very very scary, that you would edit my channel because of that. I will be contacting the various national news media outlets and radio stations to put this story out for them to see. Unless of course you can give a logical explanation for why it was removed, or put it back on my channel.
Here are the other places on YouTube the very same video appears:
I will await your reply before I contact my media contacts. That video had over 8000 views and a 5 star rating.
Maybe you all should review your policy on removing videos based on your opinion of the military or the War in Iraq and not on real violations of your CoC. I have been very careful not to violate the CoC. I have over 430 videos posted and can not imagine how you singled this one out and removed it before checking your own CoC.
Respectfully,
3rdID8487.
Here is a Google search showing the video information:
So what do you think? Why the 7 others are OK and mine was not? Why selective censorship??