{"id":59092,"date":"2019-12-26T21:06:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T19:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/?p=59092"},"modified":"2019-12-26T21:08:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T19:08:23","slug":"youtube-crypto-purge-just-simple-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/youtube-crypto-purge-just-simple-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Crypto Purge Appears to Be a Simple Error Rather Than an Evil Powerplay"},"content":{"rendered":"
The crypto community has been gripped over the past several days with news of a potential anti-crypto crusade by video sharing platform YouTube, who has been removing hundreds of crypto-related videos from popular channels over the past week.<\/p>\n
Now, an exclusive report from Decrypt elucidates that the recent purge of crypto related videos did not mark the start of a war against crypto and was simply a mistake that is in the process of being rectified.<\/p>\n
The recent content purge came about after multiple popular cryptocurrency<\/a> YouTube channels saw a significant amount of their content removed from the platform.<\/p>\n For these YouTubers, the revenue they receive from these videos can comprise a large piece of their livelihood, so naturally it was a disturbing sight to see their videos being removed for violating the platform\u2019s terms and services.<\/p>\n Interestingly, videos about blockchain and cryptocurrency from non-crypto centric channels \u2013 like CNBC and Business Insider \u2013 avoided the purge, with videos from cryptocurrency-focused channels being the only ones impacted.<\/p>\n This sparked a litany of theories from members of the cryptocurrency community as to why the platform may have taken such actions so suddenly, with some promoting the theory<\/a> that it may signal that YouTube or their parent company \u2013 Google \u2013 are doing it in preparation of entering the blockchain industry themselves.<\/p>\n