It's thus not obscure and little-known video makers who are seeing their materials rendered inaccessible but rather prominent, popular content creators. “Brian Christopher” is a similar channel with more than 80,000 subscribers. One of the channels that was banned was “TheBigJackpot,” which contains footage of high-stakes, live slot machine play and has more than 120,000 subscriptions.

It's nearly impossible to really get solid info on the real rationale for YouTube's actions, though, especially because the company is pretty tight-lipped when it comes to explaining reasons for account closure. Also, people who wish to link to their own websites in video descriptions must go through a process to verify the URL of the sites they control, and failing to do so may be grounds for blocking a channel.Īll of these hypotheses sound plausible. YouTube policies frown upon vids whose purpose is to drive traffic to outside sites, which opens up the possibility that it's affiliate links to online casinos that caused the trouble.

Some have speculated that the account closures were not triggered by gambling-related content specifically. It's almost impossible to conceive of a situation where betting on chance-based games could cause “serious physical harm or death.” There's nothing prohibiting videos showing real money wagering in the YouTube code of conduct. For example, it's not okay to post videos showing drug abuse, underage drinking and smoking, or bomb making. It reads in part: YouTube doesn't allow content that encourages or promotes violent or dangerous acts that have an inherent risk of serious physical harm or death.

One content creator whose channel was closed shared an email that he received from the company. Affected users have reported that the explanations given by YouTube for blocking their accounts were very vague and uninformative.

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