People are getting sick of YouTube!
YouTube has been a great source of information on harm reduction of drug use.
It seems YouTube has recently come out "guns blazing" issuing strikes on popular YouTubers like PsychSubstance, Your Mate Tom, and The Drug Classroom. These YouTubers have already had a difficult time gaining any monetary gains due to YouTubes policy's.
YouTube claims they've had this policy since 2013 and have just recently started to enforce it. What's alarming though is the number of false strikes. A few mushroom grows have been recently targeted for no apparent reason. These mushroom growers make videos on edible mushrooms and have had a few videos deleted.
Whoever is in charge of this wave of censorship is certainly trigger happy and ignorant to mycology.
Social media is full of people complaining about this new wave of censorship. Many are leaving YouTube and seeking freedom on other platforms such as Dtube.
Personally, I cannot see why YouTube would censor these harm reduction videos and still allow music videos that promote harmful drugs and violence.
Harm reduction videos actually make a difference allowing people to use substances in a safe way. People are going to do drugs regardless.
Checkout a few of these YouTubers
and decide for yourself if YouTube is making the right decision.
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Thanx for the information. Personally I never really liked youtube. Due to too much commercials and playlist with coversongs pretending to be the real thing. Will upvote and keep follow.
It definitely has its drawbacks. This censorship thing has really gotten out of hand though.
I think the future will be in steemit and dtube for psychedelic youtubers, i think yourmatetom has already said in a video that he might be moving to steemit and i can see others following, and great post man :)
Interesting! I like the idea of Steemit and DTube for the psychedelic community. Need to start exploring more of these platforms! :)
Would be nice too get the psychedelic community on board with this platform.
I plan on getting a few thousand involved on here.
While Steemit is decentralised it is prone to the same censorship. Down voting is censorship. Unless this is called out and fixed I'm not sure how free speech can be honoured.
I'm sure someone will introduce a system to improve the platform, otherwise it will not succeed and another platform will take its place.
That is true.