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Re:Google bans ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad plat... by bmarquez on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @09:41PM (#23546747)
> the rationale was because Zerohedge allegedly failed to manage their comment section to Google's standards for what other companies do

Out of curiosity, is there a precedent for YouTube banning channels based on the channel comments and not the channel video? Sounds like ZH is being punished for the actions of third parties.

As someone who follows finance, I like ZH. There is a ton of noise and little signal, but when they're right, they're right. I remember ZH commenters giving away free bitcoin back in 2013 calling it the next big thing.

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Re:Google bans ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad plat... by duskwuff on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:34PM (#23547084)
> Out of curiosity, is there a precedent for YouTube banning channels based on the channel comments and not the channel video?

Sort of. They've disabled comments on whole swaths of videos, like videos featuring children. I wouldn't be surprised if they've disabled comments for other problematic channels.

I'm not aware of any specific situations where they've banned channels outright as a result of problematic comment activity, but it wouldn't surprise me if it'd happened.

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Re:Google bans ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad plat... by Izkata on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @11:21PM (#23547375)
Youtube does also demonitize videos based on comments, rather than just the video's content.
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Re:Google bans ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad plat... by duskwuff on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @03:43AM (#23548879)
Indeed. Comments can often bring to light aspects of a video which might not be obvious from watching the video without context. One example is videos which cater to obscure fetishes -- a video of a woman slowly blowing up and popping balloons isn't obviously sexual, for instance, but comments could make its intent more obvious.
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Re:Google bans ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad plat... by White_Wolf on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @04:21AM (#23549096)
the way that the video is interpreted says a lot more about the person that wrote the comment than the creator.
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Re:Google bans ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad plat... by mrguyorama on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @01:33PM (#23554175)
No, in this case (inflation) it's an actual fetish and many "non-obvious" fetishes post their stuff on youtube instead of normal porn avenues. These videos are created and distributed with the intent of causing arousal
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