Thanks Clint. I appreciate your solidarity and you have mineππ I totally understand when you say you're trying to avoid another and the struggle being real. From my perspective even when this two week ban on posting is lifted, I'm rather apprehensive to post anything further and that's what I mean about censorship. One more piece of content, that suddenly the bots or powers that be decide violate some random policy that is unclear, means the entire content is deleted and the channel removed.
Therefore I'd rather leave the content as it is and perhaps not post anything further. So at least it is there to inspire and encourage people with existing content that was approved. It is youtube's platform, and they're entitled to make the rules in their house. Equally, we have a choice, and have to decide whether we want to go and visit their house anymore or not!π If only I had the money, I'd be out there creating a channel and platform that basically blows this one away. There has to be room for everybody to air their point of view. And if you do violate some policy, it should not result in just immediate strikes or bans or removal and termination. I wasn't aware that it had become a communist state on youtube.
On the other hand, I'm in agreement with you that using youtube as a good marketing tool is the best way possible to look at the platform. After all, it is owned by Google. And the two of them together perform one of the biggest volume of searches and ranking out there.
I'm still not sure what I can make of youtube's policies, to be honest. As you say, it's not just the fact that they deny we have parts, but it's also the fact that I come across plenty of other videos, (and I have to say mostly all of women) who it seems it's perfectly fine to show gyrating and bouncing around on camera. I even found one 'yoga' video whereby somebody was in a very compromising position. Clearly angled to attract clicks from their thumbnail. If Youtube would like to talk about protecting children, then maybe they should take a look at those videos too, because it's sending a very weird stereotype about what makes a man and what makes a woman.
Personally speaking, I have no time for their shenanigans. And like you and many others who I'm sure are facing the same challenges, we just go elsewhere and create our own house.... Whether that be here on sub stack over on telegram or any other video platforms that we can lay our hands on. We're wishing you all the best too. Here's hoping that we make it through these ridiculous bans and strikes. But if not, I trust that the universe has another way it wants me to explore. So I follow the signposts and trust the process.πππ