The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is reportedly nearing the end of its investigation into YouTube’s account suspensions, content removals and platform policies. The probe is examining whether YouTube may have misled users about what content its rules permitted, only for videos to later be removed or accounts suspended. FTC lawyers are reportedly preparing a potential lawsuit against YouTube, although no lawsuit has been filed and the company has not been formally accused of wrongdoing. If the FTC moves forward, this could become a major case for YouTube creators, content moderation, platform transparency, account bans and Big Tech regulation.
The FTC legitimately has no business doing thos. It’s a violation of free speech. Although I suppose we can just put it on the pile. It 100% is all about the fascists getting muted. As always they’re the biggest crybullies. Perhaps the FTC might have some weight to comment on the content which YouTube chooses to carry but they can fuck right off. If there’s bullshit about trying to get rightfully banned and blocked fascist reinstated.
They’re going at it from a contract violation point of view, which may hold up in court where a free speech argument wouldn’t. They’re looking at what’s stated in the terms of use and community guidelines versus what gets removed or demonetized via moderation.