Youtube has been one of the video-sharing platforms we get to enjoy nowadays. Not just it provides entertainment and information to its users, it also provides income to its content creators and contributors. Hence, people and businesses are already inclined to utilizing the platform.

Just like any other free-access site, Youtube also has its Community Guidelines and Rules the users should abide by. These guidelines protect the safety of its community which applies to all types of content on the platform, including videos, comments, links, and thumbnails.

The following are the violations your content might have committed once your Youtube channel or account got terminated:

SPAM & DECEPTIVE PRACTICES

• Fake Engagement. Youtube doesn’t allow artificial or automatic engagements to gain views, likes, comments, or other metrics.
• Impersonation. It prohibits the impersonation of other persons or channels and its content.
• Link in your Content. Links that may lead to content that violates their Community Guidelines.
• Spam, deceptive practices & scams policies. Contents in which the main purpose is to scam and lead users to other sites are not allowed.

SENSITIVE CONTENT

• Child Safety. Content that endangers the emotional and physical well-being of minors, anyone younger than 18 years old.
• Custom Thumbnails. Thumbnails that have pornographic images, acts of violence, and clickbait.
• Nudity and Sexual Content. Explicit contents and pornography are also not allowed.
• Suicide and self-injury. Content that promotes suicide, self-harm, or intends to disgust users.

VIOLENT OR DANGEROUS CONTENTa

• Harassment and cyber-bullying. Content that threatens individuals and features prolonged name-calling or malicious insults.
• Harmful or dangerous content. Content that encourages dangerous or illegal activities that risk serious physical harm or death.
• Hate Speech. Content that promotes hatred and violence towards individuals or groups based on age, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, race, religion, etc.
• Violent Criminal Organizations. Content praising violent acts, or produced by violent criminal or terrorist organizations
• Violent or graphic content. Violent or gory content, or contents encouraging others to commit violent acts.
• COVID-19 Misinformation. Misleading and false information about COVID-19 limited to content that contradicts the World Health Organization and local health authorities.

REGULATED GOODS

• Content featuring firearms. Content selling firearms and other destructive weapons, or instructing viewers on how to install it.
• Sale of Illegal or Regulated goods. Contents selling certain regulated goods and services such as illegal drugs, alcohol, endangered species or parts of endangered species, and the likes.

ADDITIONAL POLICIES

• Inactive accounts. Accounts that may found inactive overly may be reclaimed by Youtube without notice.
• Encouraging Terms of Service violations. Content that encourages to violate the Term of Service.
• Age requirements. Youtube confirms the user’s age and assesses if you are old enough to use the site.

Above mentioned guidelines are thoroughly thought of with the help of external industry, policy experts, and Youtube creators. These are being implemented through ‘a combination of people and machine learning to detect problematic content at scale’. Youtube also has Intelligence Desk that monitors the news, social media, and user reports to detect new trends surrounding inappropriate content.

You may also help the site to detect content that violates the Community Guidelines by submitting it to their flagging feature for review.

The Internet really has progressed tremendously, and we are already in the digital era where everything can be accessed and found online. It helps us a lot in our daily hustles and keeps us connected to the world, so let’s continue to make it a safe platform for everyone.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/policies/community-guidelines