Recently, the Ripple CTO, David Schwartz’s channel was suspended from the leading video uploading platform YouTube.

As per the channels guidelines, the channel owners are banned from creating new channels but they are permitted to submit an appeal request if they found their channel was suspended by default.

This action by YouTube came after a week of the lawsuit filed by Ripple against the platform claiming the channel had failed to secure fake XRP giveaway scams on its platform.

Recently, the Ripple CTO, David Schwartz’s youtube channel was suspended from the leading video sharing platform. Schwartz shared on Twitter that YouTube has suspended his channel.

Ripple’s CTO Banned on Youtube for impersonation

Weirdly, @YouTube just decided to suspend my channel (SJoelKatz) for impersonation. I wonder who they think I was impersonating. — David Schwartz (@JoelKatz) April 29, 2020

He shared that Youtube decided to ban his channel, SJoelKatz for impersonation. He further responded on the same tweet by highlighting the YouTube guidelines that you are prohibited from accessing, possessing, or creating any other YouTube accounts. Also, he wanted to know whether he prohibited from watching videos on the platform.

"Please be aware that you are prohibited from accessing, possessing or creating any other YouTube accounts." — Does this mean I can't watch any YouTube videos anymore? — David Schwartz (@JoelKatz) April 29, 2020

As per the channels guidelines, the channel owners are banned from creating new channels but they are permitted to submit an appeal request if they found their channel was suspended by default.

Recently, the XRP Ledger architect David Schwartz shared an unfortunate ‘cancer’ statement over the tweet posted by Kraken’s Pierre Rochard about Bitcoin billionaires. Moreover, this tweet gained a lot of critiques from the Bitcoin advocates saying not to make fun of cancer.

This tweet literally gave me cancer. Literally. — David Schwartz (@JoelKatz) April 27, 2020

Is this a revenge taken by YouTube?

This action was taken by YouTube after a week of the lawsuit filed by Ripple against YouTube claiming the channel had failed to secure fake XRP giveaway scams on its platform. The lawsuit describes the channel’s refusal to suspend scam channels that have made the users being cheated out of hundreds of thousands of dollars along with damaging the reputation of Ripple.

However, Schwartz’s channel was active on the platform for many years and that is why the suspension of his account is quite close to the beginning of legal proceedings.