Uploaded December 2009 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Hello YouTube staff, any of you, please watch this video, I did not make this video to whine, I take free speech very serious and it is being trampled to death here on your website.
You say in you own little mantra that you support free speech and the free exchange of ideas and opinions yet all I have been witnessing lately is the opposite, people are using and abusing the DMCA and flagging system on your website to silence other whom they either disagree with or don't like. This abuse has gotten to the point where it is affecting some YouTube partners, people that help you earn money through your ad revenue system.
The more you allow this abuse to go on, the more money it will cost you in the long run, you may just add more partners but will people click on the ads on the videos, they may, they may not.
I have made a few suggestions for you as to how you can fix the problems, in my opinion, they are simple and easy fixes, put the onus on the people make claims against another person, if they can not verify they have a legitimate claim against a user then the claim is dismissed, if someone makes many claims against other users that turn out to be illegitimate, permanently suspend them and if necessary put an IP block on them.
I know you can do what I have suggested, the only question is do you have the will to do it?
Thank you for watching
Sign the petition:
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Hello YouTube staff, any of you, please watch this video, I did not make this video to whine, I take free speech very serious and it is being trampled to death here on your website.
You say in you own little mantra that you support free speech and the free exchange of ideas and opinions yet all I have been witnessing lately is the opposite, people are using and abusing the DMCA and flagging system on your website to silence other whom they either disagree with or don't like. This abuse has gotten to the point where it is affecting some YouTube partners, people that help you earn money through your ad revenue system.
The more you allow this abuse to go on, the more money it will cost you in the long run, you may just add more partners but will people click on the ads on the videos, they may, they may not.
I have made a few suggestions for you as to how you can fix the problems, in my opinion, they are simple and easy fixes, put the onus on the people make claims against another person, if they can not verify they have a legitimate claim against a user then the claim is dismissed, if someone makes many claims against other users that turn out to be illegitimate, permanently suspend them and if necessary put an IP block on them.
I know you can do what I have suggested, the only question is do you have the will to do it?
Thank you for watching
Sign the petition:
thepetitionsite.com/1/StopYouTubeCensorship
