Talk:YouTube

Add a section on censorship

We should probably cover the censorship of the Hong Kong protests of 2021 Revelation 13 16-17 (talk) 02:42, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

This feels like a worthy incident we must cover but alas I lack intel on it. Could you point me towards some sources so I can find out more? These sources can help in our write-up when we do it. SinexTitan (talk) 18:41, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

They also took down a video by comedian SAMTIME (Sam Tucker) mocking them for Android's new restrictions: Android is Losing a Big Feature. (Odysee mirror). JodyBruchonFan (talk) 08:57, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Inconsistent content moderation section

@D-side Hi there, typically when we introduce new sections on the wiki, we include sources. If you are struggling to find sources, it is generally best practice to leave the concept dedicated towards the discussion tab so that once people find relevant and trustworthy sources, it can be properly integrated into our articles. I hope you understand! JamesTDG (talk) 12:17, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi @JamesTDG, understandable, no problem at all, undid my change and created a discussion entry out of what was previously there D-side (talk) 13:14, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

TODO: inconsistent content moderation (draft)

Obscure over-moderation of comments

Commenters on videos sometimes encounter inconsistent behavior around availability of some of the comments they publish. Some comments go through without issue, some comments disappear immediately without notice, some disappear after a short amount of time, sometimes long enough to get a reply (which subsequently appears as a reply to nothing). Comments lost in this way are hidden from view, but apparently still exist in YouTube's system as reply counters still account for them. On rare occasions some comments are restored, up to months later, for unclear reasons.^{[citation needed - but hard to find something reputable on the subject because the behavior is so inconsistent it could be discounted as just random]}

YouTube allows holding comments for review prior to publication, all or just potentially inappropriate, but this happens even on channels where neither option is enabled. Some creators report getting complaints about this behavior and finding no traces of this on channel management pages: not of the comments, not of the actions taken.^{[citation needed - Louis Rossmann posted a video of something about this at least once, if someone could please find it]}

YouTube's official policy states that automated removals happen when their detection systems find violations of their Community Guidelines, but Guidelines' overall broadness, questionable past interpretations of Guidelines by YouTube and lack of notices with specific reasons for specific deletions makes assessment of the validity of that detection difficult.

(Feel free to edit this draft directly) D-side (talk) 13:10, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

More sources:

• Youtube Comment Censorship - Why Your Youtube Comments Get Deleted. Comment Moderation Gone Wild
• YouTube is Auto-Deleting 100% of my Comments

JodyBruchonFan (talk) 16:28, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

relevant: "The Company in this Thumbnail Supports Rape" Rudxain (talk) 22:41, 29 November 2025 (UTC)