Hi there,
Thanks for your quick response.
I was able to read out your chat conversation with my colleague and from what I understand, your video was "categorized" as hate speech and violence. What I want to know is how this is affecting your channel? Are you concerned about the monetization status of these videos given the status that they have? Or did your channel receive a Community Strike because of that.
We can start on a blank slate so that perhaps you can explain to us better on what really is going on or we can continue from here.
I hope to hear from you soon.
All the best,
Cy
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(1) My concern is not demonetization: my concern is the stated reason for the demonetization. In other words: my concern is the categorization of the video as hate speech.
(2) Please note, for context, that I have had this problem many, many times before with youtube: one video was categorized as "racist hate speech" against French people, and I wrote in to point out that (2.1) my first wife is French, (2.2) my daughter is French, (2.3) my last name is seemingly French (Mazard) and (2.4) the name of my youtube channel is in French, and (2.5) the video shows me discussing my life when I lived in France, so therefore (2.6) it is extremely unlikely that the video is racist against French people.
EVENTUALLY the censorship of the video was ended, precisely because I wrote to someone like yourself to complain (again and again).
The other examples are equally absurd.
I do believe the fundamental problem is that the people employed in this process of review (1) do not speak English as their first language, and (2) do not actually listen to the videos: they respond to transcriptions of isolated keywords out of context (e.g., they just see, "this guy is saying something bad about French people", without any concern as to whether or not that qualifies as racist hate speech).
(3) It is not a trivial thing to have videos categorized as racist hate speech: this does, indeed, blacklist your channel.
(4) It is not a trivial thing to have videos categorized as harassment: this does, indeed, blacklist your channel.
(5) If there is some other reason to demonetize the video (e.g., categorizing it in another way, that is factually valid) then I would not object to it being demonetized.
What I object to, as you have seen in my earlier correspondence, is the following categorization:
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Hateful & derogatory content
Hate, disparagement, or harassment towards a group or individual
Hate or harassment towards individuals or groups.
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Violence
Situations showing hurt, damage, or injury
Raw footage focused on violent law enforcement; graphic dead bodies in a non-educational video; edited video gameplay that primarily focuses on graphic violence; domestic violence.
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Both of these claims are factually untrue.
You cannot provide a time-stamp for even a single moment within the video in which I say something hateful, disparaging or harassing towards a group or individual. You cannot provide a quotation (in context or out of context) that would have any such racist meaning whatsoever.
This is not a trivial point: this is of tremendous importance to recognize, and then amend the censorship decision accordingly (in keeping with both the letter and the spirit of the regulations).
With the second claim about "violence", please notice the specific assertion that this video is "non-educational".
The video reads aloud a police report, showing the evidence of a police investigation on screen, while explaining the contrast between the specific findings of that police report and what had been inaccurately reported by news organizations (and other youtube channels).
Is that "non-educational"?
The video is educational. The video is both non-racist and anti-racist. The video does not contain any scenes of violence whatsoever, and the slightly disturbing subject matter must be evaluated in the context of serious political discussion (i.e., a critique of the inaccuracy of journalism) that is indeed educational.
