YouTube, the world’s largest video sharing platform, has removed many crypto-related videos without any prior warning to creators.

The Google-owned video platform is currently facing a lot of criticisms for their recent action. YouTube cited that, those videos about crypto violated their guidelines of “harmful or dangerous content” and “sale of regulated goods”.

Chris Dunn, a popular YouTuber in the crypto community,tweeted that, YouTube has taken most of his videos down due to the aforementioned reasons.



.@YouTube just removed most of my crypto videos citing "harmful or dangerous content" and "sale of regulated goods"… it's been 10 years of making videos, 200k+ subs, and 7M+ views. WTF are you guys doing @TeamYouTube?! pic.twitter.com/MPcKbBVrC4 — Chris Dunn (@ChrisDunnTV) December 23, 2019

Dunn, who has over 200,000 subscribers on his channel, has been making crypto-related videos over the last decade.

Node investor also tweeted that, a video he posted two years ago about crypto was removed from the platform.

Merry Christmas to you also @YouTube. Apparently a video I posted two years ago on researching crypto’s is now illegal…Rules are changing pic.twitter.com/GdGqR3RVOw — Node Investor (@NodeInvestor) December 23, 2019

Another crypto YouTuber, known as Omar Bah, who also has about 199,000 subscribers warned his followers to follow him on alternate platforms. He said this with the fear that YouTube might remove most of his videos or even delete his channel.

Google’s sudden attack on crypto-related videos is quite irrational. Labelling all videos that its video-sharing platform took down, as “harmful”, is quiet absurd.

Several content creators on YouTube are already moving to alternate platforms due to the recent clampdown by the video-sharing platform.

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