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YouTube logo on display during LeWeb Paris 2012 on Dec. 4, 2012. (Eric Piermont/AFP via Getty Images) A YouTube channel featuring recreational fishing videos has been demonetised by the video-sharing giant over supposed content featuring “animal abuse.”
The Australian-based content creator for Gido’s Fishing Adventures said his channel had been demonetised for a month and that he was waiting for a response from Google -owned YouTube.
“(YouTube’s notice) says I need to make adjustments to my content, and it’s to do with animal abuse apparently,” he said on his latest YouTube video . “You can actually read in there that what I’m doing is fine because I’m not abusing animals for shock, or whatever, which is what they’re against—which is fair enough, I’d be against it too—I’m just catching fish. “
Gido said he received an email from YouTube notifying him that a “significant portion” of his content was against its policies. However, he noted that he had been uploading similar videos for an extended period. Notification to Gido’s Fishing Adventures that their channel was demonetised (Screenshot provided to The Epoch Times) “I’ve also got my 100,000-subscriber plaque in the mail,” he said, in reference to the Silver Creator Award that gets delivered to YouTube channels with over 100,000 subscribers.
“I asked for it two weeks ago, and they check over your content, and they check your channel before they send it—and they did—and they sent it out to me and said everything was good.”
“I’m confused; I don’t know what’s happening,” he said. “This is a major problem for me because the bulk of my income comes from YouTube these days. And I’m not getting paid anything.”
YouTube has yet to respond to Gido and to inquiries from The Epoch Times.
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Rob Nicholls, associate professor of regulation and governance at the University of New South Wales, described Youtube’s demonetisation program as an “intermediate step” in its content moderation process.
“It is likely that this content was demonetised as part of an artificial intelligence analysis,” he told The Epoch Times. “To some extent, there is a parallel with the take-down of a chess channel on YouTube earlier […]
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