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Re: YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly

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Ironlikebike wrote: post #72
judge2020 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These bans affect the YouTube Brand account / Channel only, Google accounts haven't been affected by regular YT ToS violations for a while.

Right, he still has access to his Google account, but he can't use YouTube from that account. In fact, he can't create a new account and login to YouTube from any of his devices. His only access to YouTube at this point seems to be through non-logged in access.

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Re: YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly

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Post by evilksandr »

megumax wrote: post #15

After Grammarly spent millions of dollars on Google ads, I expect them not to accept valid criticism on Google platforms. But it's unfair to block a guy that talked about a real flaw in Grammarly's plagiarism checker, at least pretend that you allow free speech and take down that video for a random reason specified in your ToS.

Thanks for your support!

Re: YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly

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Post by RajT88 »

Ironlikebike wrote: post #23
evilksandr wrote: post #2

1) At the blocking moment I had only 2 videos (just screen records) on my channel which showed the same problem in 2 different Grammarly products 2) these videos were an illustration for my report https://hackerone.com/reports/1282282 , which Grammarly disclosed to the public and does not consider this a problem. 3) these videos were published after Grammarly representatives allowed me to release this information 4)…

My son (a curious juvenile) found his own YouTube account banned in a similar manner for disclosing a security issue in Google wifi products. There was no first or second warning (despite what the Terms of Service say). Google would not give him a justification for the banning other than "terms of service violation". The appeals fell on deaf ears. Now their automated system keeps banning every YouTube account he crea…

Wow. I think my big take-away is to never post disclosures about a company, on that company's platform.

No, I'm not being sarcastic either. I am sure some Company-Man type was the one who stumbled across it and implemented the ban.

Of course, the other lesson is one I have learned just reading tech news for years and years: Cover your bases and plan for retaliation. Even if the company in question doesn't have a history of that.

Re: YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly

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Post by evilksandr »

itake wrote: post #85

Youtube does not allow "instructional hacking" videos. This is a TOS / community guidelines [0] violation. This ban has nothing to do with their advertiser. [0] - https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2801964?hl=en

The video was published after Grammarly representatives identified the case as "The described behavior is a functionality limitation that does not affect the security and privacy of our product", disclosed the case and gave me permission to publish my research results. More details here https://hackerone.com/reports/1282282 . Аlso there in the files you can find the original videos that were published on my channel.

Re: YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly

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Post by dale_glass »

rosmax_1337 wrote: post #50
smcl wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What basic freedom are these companies trampling? I dislike them as much as the next person, but it's been clear from the start that they operate their little fiefdoms as they see fit and we should be under no illusions that we have no rights there. If we want to fight for a change to the various laws in various countries, then that is a conversation I would be very willing to have. But let's not pretend that any of…

Have you considered why those places become grim places? Does free speech lead to those ideas? That would be quite a out-there conclusion. Rather, those people can only express themselves on forums like that, they are banned on all the other mediums. If free speech was set as a standard on all mediums, those people would express themselves evenly on facebook, youtube and the chans, rather than being penned into fring…

They become grim because the conflict is asymmetric.

Slinging insults, hate, disinformation, or just posting plain nonsense is easy. Explaining how things work properly takes a lot of effort and is hard. Eg, saying "The moon landings were a hoax" is easy. Explaining why that makes no sense, and how exactly humans did land on the Moon takes a good amount longer.

There's also that the valuable, accomplished people in a community are a scarce resource. What would you prefer the resident rocket scientist to do, provide useful information for the community on something new going on, or try to reason with the newly arrived conspiracy theorist?

Re: YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly

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Post by evilksandr »

Ironlikebike wrote: post #72
judge2020 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These bans affect the YouTube Brand account / Channel only, Google accounts haven't been affected by regular YT ToS violations for a while.

Right, he still has access to his Google account, but he can't use YouTube from that account. In fact, he can't create a new account and login to YouTube from any of his devices. His only access to YouTube at this point seems to be through non-logged in access.

Yes, it is. I am not going to create new accounts, it is fundamentally important for me to reinstate my own account.
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