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Hot take: my entire video essay on the Hong Kong protests got pulled from YouTube last Tuesday
I was in my apartment in Chicago editing the final cut when I got the strike notice citing 'harmful content'. The 47 minute piece used only news footage and academic sources, but the automated system flagged it immediately. Has anyone successfully appealed a takedown for political analysis content, or is it just a lost cause now?
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corap219d ago
Honestly, the automated systems are a blunt tool that catch everything. It's probably less about your specific topic and more about keywords tripping a filter. Appealing can work, but you're fighting an algorithm that doesn't do nuance.
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evahenderson9d ago
Ugh, tell me about it. @corap21 is right, you're basically shouting at a brick wall. I had a post flagged just for saying "this process kills my productivity" because "kills" set it off. You gotta strip out any word that could be read as violent, even metaphorically. Swap "fight" for "deal with" or "handle." It's stupid, but you learn to write like a robot so the robot leaves you alone.
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