YouTube & FTC Will Terminate Millions

In the midst of all this confusion and chaos, it’s actually happening here on YouTube, dealing with the FTC and Coppa YouTube’s about to update their new Terms of Service, and how does that affect you and me as content creators? Well, if your content, isn’t commercially viable for YouTube, they may terminate your account.

You heard me right. I’m, not kidding here. Look here. This is not clickbait, you probably think it’s clean beta here. Take a look Wow, so is YouTube. Gon na delete small channels that’s, not bringing in the money.

Are they going to delete other channels that don’t even monetize? I being crazy, like I really want to know what is commercially viable. It’s, pretty vague well in this video we’re gonna actually cover everything in the Terms of Service.

I’m gonna give you my take of why they’re. Doing this, how it deals with the FTC and Coppa and ultimately a how it’s. Gon na affect you and me as content creators, hello. My people of the internet, now, if you are new to me and this YouTube channel, we talk about everything YouTube.

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Now I’ve done a couple videos in the last couple months about how the FTC is actually gonna come in and start transforming YouTube and a lot of content. Creators kind of just put their heads in the sand say hey.

This is not gonna happen to me, but ultimately I was saying look, this is gonna have a ripple effect and it’s. Gon na have a ripple effect that will go past kids content and to other creators. Youtube just made this notification that actually came up and basically stated that there are new Terms of Service that’s going to be in effect, come December 10th.

Now I know a lot of us are actually guilty of just scrolling past the Terms of Service and just signing up what did we actually agree to to YouTube? You know how this can affect our channel. How’s? This gonna affect our content.

I I’d venture to guess that the majority of all you, probably all of you haven’t, even read the Terms of Service or if you are under the age under 13 years of age, then please do not use this service.

There are a lot of other great websites for you. Talk to your parents about websites are appropriate for you, YouTube doesn’t want you to use the site. If you’re 13 Wow. Okay, I met. I am wrong. Leave it to mr.

B’s. To do some self-torture read every single word in the Terms of Service. Now I got ta admit I am actually a geek when it comes to YouTube, and I really want to understand everything that’s. Going on there’s, a lot of little hidden gems of what can happen in terms of service.

I know this is really bad particular this. This is all the terms of service has actually happened on youtube since 2005, and in fact, I have right here check this out the original Terms of Service from YouTube in 2005, before they were acquired by Google cuz once here acquired by Google, it got more and More complicated his Google has better attorneys in light of all the issues that’s, going on with the FTC and Coppa, and I know a lot of you right now that are watching this video or trying to figure out what’s.

Going on, I’m here, to tell you that YouTube is really preparing for something and it has everything to do with the FTC sweep. Not only can we sue Google and YouTube for compliance with Coppa, but also individual channel owners and content creators, and once this order has been fully implemented, we intend to conduct a sweep, so it’s really important.

That YouTube actually does a couple things before January 1st, because ultimately they need to comply with the Federal Trade Commission and making sure that they’re compliant because if they’re, not compliant with all the mandated issues that they actually agreed To in their hundred and seventy million dollar settlement, guess who’s responsible for that? Well, YouTube is, and I can tell you here right now: they’re literally gonna protect their assets yeah, they’re gonna protect their, but like seriously.

At the end of the day, they need to make sure that they’re, legally, not responsible for content, that’s on their platform, and ultimately, this is where the Terms of Service actually comes in that’s.

Why? You’re, seeing this notification that there’s. The new Terms of Service is actually coming December 10th. Ultimately, they’re preparing for January 1st, and so when the FTC starts doing the sweep and deleting videos or YouTube’s deleting videos, they are legally protected and I know a lot of people are freaking out over the language.

But ultimately, is going to affect a lot of creators if they don ‘ T take this issue seriously. Now, over the years we’ve seen you two really do sweeps across the platform delete a lot of videos, a lot of channels Lee this is going to be a little bit more massive and it’s.

Gon na create ripple effects for years to come, so let’s, go ahead and dig deep right into the terms. Now I can tell you that reading these Terms of Service and reading every Terms of Service, this next update is the easiest to read for someone that’s, not an attorney.

You tell you. Yes, there’s, a lot of stuff. That’s, still vague good job legal team at YouTube. We’ll, see so first off your content and conduct right here where I says you are legally responsible for the content, you submit it to the service.

Now I can tell you the word legally responsible was added to this a lot of people kind of glaze that over, but ultimately, what YouTube is preparing for is the FTC is going to do the sweep and if they find a content creator that violates what they Deem is important that’s, why it’s, important to understand what’s going on with the FTC.

They can penalize you and find you fine up to forty two thousand five hundred and thirty dollars per offense. That means per video – and I can tell you that YouTube in this Terms of Service is prep, say: hey.

Look it’s, not us that made that content is these people, so don’t find us find them. We’ve done our part. Think about that for a second guys that is really protecting YouTube. Okay. Next, we may use automated systems to analyze your content to help detect infringement and abuse such as spam malware or illegal content.

Now this isn’t necessarily new. They’ve had this in several Terms of Service, but the ultimate thing is: they are putting systems in place to automatically detect to see if your content is appealing to kids or it’s, child directed and if we don’t take that major YouTube’s, either gonna do it for us, or we’re gonna have to self designate.

But ultimately, if you’re trying to deceive this, there is software that will detect it and if they detect it, you could face a fine, because, ultimately, I truly believe that there will be a back-end system.

The FTC will will check, will monitor and see any content creators what they’re trying to do, and they will find that content creators. They will find YouTube for that violation as well. The expression about shooting fish in a barrel and YouTube is the barrel and the content.

Creators are the fish, and so it’s, a place where these, where this content is centralized, and essentially it’s, easy for us to find, but YouTube will be protected because legally, they’ll, say: hey, look it’s, not our content, it’s.

Theirs, we told them. We’ve gone through this process and ultimately, it’s. Their responsibility. Part of the automated thing is where I kind of have a grief, and the only reason why is because I have had an automated system do a false-positive that’s when the automated system thought hey.

This is what’s going on. This is what we’re able to see, and then you don’t get anything there’s like like literally YouTube doesn’t, really communicate very well with you on this and there’s. A lot of false positives here – and I can tell you, I’ve, I get phone calls and I get emails and DMS of people they get falsely accused of their contents.

This certain way and the bots and the automated system really thinks it’s that way, and they have no no recourse, okay, so jumping back into the Terms of Service. I want to talk about what your content means for you and also YouTube.

Now, when you upload content, what happens to that? Well by providing content to the service, you grant YouTube a worldwide non-exclusive royalty-free, sub licensable and transfer role license to use content.

So, basically, when we upload a video to YouTube, yes, we have our rights. We give YouTube licensing rights to be able to use and distribute how they want to promote YouTube and other services. Basically, that’s.

What we’re doing, okay, so yeah give a little license now. This is where it gets really interesting. Guys – and I really do believe this is where I personally have the most worry for us as content. Creators is how YouTube is legally protecting themselves here.

Content is the responsibility of the person or entity that provides to its service so once again YouTube’s, saying: look. We’re, not legally responsible for the content. You’re responsible, whether you’re, an individual creator or a business.

It’s. Your risk possibility, however, YouTube is under no obligation to host or serve content. Look YouTube has no obligation to host our videos. They don’t, they have no obligation for it and legally, you’re responsible for your content and ultimately, if they don’t like the content, they can delete millions and millions of videos and they can delete millions.

Millions of channels it’s up to their sole discretion, hey take a look if we reasonably believe that any content is in breach of this agreement or cause harm to YouTube our users or third parties. We may remove or take down that content in our discretion.

Now here’s, the thing so YouTube will continue to delete videos and channels and ultimately is from their sole discretion. Like you said, hey, look. It’s, harming us as a platform of our users or our business model.

We have the the right to actually delete that. So let’s, go ahead and jump into the wording here in the Terms of Service of what YouTube can delete, accounts and videos and most content creators are really like freaking out about this YouTube may suspend or terminate your access.

Your Google account your Google accounts access to all or part of its services. If a you materially, or repeatedly breach this contract B, we are required to do so and comply with legal requirements or court orders or C.

We believe that there’s, conduct that creates or could create, liability or harm to users or other third parties YouTube or our affiliates Wow. Okay, so they’re, really covering their butt here, and it goes on.

This is where creators are really freaking out. Youtube may terminate your access and your Google accounts access to all or part of its service. If you to believe in its sole discretion that the provision of the service to you is no longer commercially viable.

Okay, first off it’s, YouTube’s, sole discretion, sole discretion, so whatever they want to do, if they say hey, look, you know what we don’t like this content. We’re gonna get rid of it. They can do that if it’s, not commercially viable and whose to prove well, you can’t really dispute it.

It’s like it’s, their sole discretion. They might disagree with you. It doesn’t matter. What you do, because they’re legally protected to do that. That’s in this Terms of Service now. This is what I want to say.

Ultimately, this so vague in a sense of commercially viable, and I can tell you that there are times that people want to know what that means, and ultimately, what it means is whatever Susan and the YouTube team fills is commercially viable is going to be commercially viable.

Like I’ve been to private events and they’d, say hey. We want more of this content. It’s, bringing a ton of money into YouTube. We want more and more and more and guess what there & #. 39 s more content that actually come into it.

Then they get some bad press and then ultimately, like we, don’t want more of this content this. This is not safe for advertisers. We want to delete it and they start deleting channels. They start penalizing people it’s, crazy guys.

This is like a very slippery slope. Now, let me just say my biggest beef: is they always just kind of throw the term bad actors out there? Oh, it’s, just bad actors, bad actors, that’s, the easiest way for them to say.

Look. I don’t agree with this content: bad actors, let’s, get them off our platform, and ultimately, is it something they don’t agree with you know. Is it? Is it something some philosophy issues that are there? Is it like too controversial? Basically, they can put that label bad actor on it and say: oh, we can just push it aside and now, ultimately they can say well, not only is it bad actors, but it’s not commercially viable for us, because it’s.

Gon na hurt us as a platform, and we can delete it off and guys I can tell you. This is gonna happen. Time and time again. Youtube is protecting themselves here. So when this happens to you and to me and to the rest of the YouTube community, we have no recourse YouTube holds all the cards like you can’t get mad like seriously like when you feel like you have the right.

This you’re right. It’s. Your First Amendment right to upload videos to YouTube. You are wrong. Why? Why? Because YouTube is a business, they are not a public service and ultimately they are not the government and they can do whatever they want.

Now they might be controlled a little bit now by the FTC with those regulations, and there might be a lot more scrutiny. That’s, coming from some laws that are trying to be passed right now, but ultimately we as creators are helpless like like literally if YouTube wants to destroy our videos and our content and our businesses, we will lose millions.

So I’m imploring you, please, please, please get actively involved in helping protect creators and ultimately find viable options for us to really put out content there. Now there’s. Some links below this video to sign a petition to leave comments to the FTC.

Ultimately, we need a group really lobbying for us in Congress, because there are some really nasty laws that are coming our way because they’re trying to protect the children and ultimately it’s. Gon na delete millions