On December 26, YouTube released a statement saying the platform had mistakenly removed hundreds of crypto-related videos this calendar week.

Still, many of the YouTubers affected by the ban yet have not had their videos restored on the site.

YouTuber Ivan on Tech told Cointelegraph on December 26th:

"Null has inverse. YouTube said this was a mistake yesterday too. I'm not sure why they are saying this."

Ivan on Tech's YouTube account, which has more than 210,000 subscribers, received a strike from YouTube earlier this week. He has since prepare all of his crypto-related videos to private as a precaution.

YouTuber Carl The Moon also told Cointelegraph on December 26th that all of his videos are still removed from the platform, noting that he is not sure of the validity of YouTube'due south recent argument.

"This was the first time I was punished by YouTube and I got a warning. When yous have a warning, you will get a strike adjacent time. After 3 strikes within 90 days, YouTube permanently removes your channel," said Carl.

YouTube'south customs guidelines do non address crypto

According to YouTube's community guidelines, content is automatically removed if it violates the platform'due south guidelines. This could include nudity or sexual content, harmful or dangerous content, hateful content, violent or graphic content, harassment or cyberbullying, spams, scams and more than.

While this may be the case, crypto YouTubers accept expressed confusion as to why their content is existence deleted, a bespeak of concern that YouTube has failed to clarify.

We do know that Alex Saunders YouTube channel, Nugget's News, which has 64.6k subscribers, has been banned due to "harmful or unsafe content."

Saunders posted in the r/ethereum community on Reddit 9 hours prior to press time that he woke upward on Christmas to a strike warning from YouTube for posting "harmful or dangerous" content. Post-obit this, Saunders received another strike in a matter of hours, even though he hadn't taken any activeness since the first alert.

According to Saunder's Reddit thread,

"Today I woke up on Xmas to a strike alarm from YouTube for harmful or unsafe content. Checked my email, nothing. A few hours after later on Xmas lunch, another strike. I hadn't even washed annihilation on Youtube since the first strike. Still no electronic mail. I cover a lot of topics related to finance, economic science, housing market, stocks as well as crypto related content. We don't practise paid ICO or token promotion. I have done tutorials on leverage trading platforms. I'm really not sure what to practice. If the trend continues about crypto youtubers volition be afflicted."

Saunders as well tweeted 11 hours prior to press time,"Hi @TeamYouTube with over 100 videos removed & 2 strikes in 24 hours I have still not even received an email from you. This is really scary. We've hired new staff. I have a married woman & baby to back up. I can't gear up the trouble if I don't know what I've washed or who to communicate with!?"

Source: Twitter

Source: Twitter

YouTuber Omar Bham, who created a list of well-known YouTubers affected by the ban, received a response on Twitter from @TeamYouTube on Dec 24th.

Source Twitter

Source Twitter

Bham told Cointelegraph that he has not heard any updates from YouTube since then:

"The extent of this is unknown. I keep hearing of smaller channels, not on my list, which have completely disappeared."

Nevertheless, Bham did tweet 5 minutes ago to printing an update that YouTube has restored his one video that had previously been taken down:

"Update: YouTube has repealed my alarm and reposted the video, which they had previously removed. Crypto YouTube is non expressionless (just even so, anyhow)."

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YouTube has still non responded to Cointelegraph'southward request for an update on the thing since admitting content was taken down as a error on December 24th.