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Jul 2Liked by Collide Press

Yeah, it's totally subjective and stupid. There were similar problems about covering the invasion of Ukraine. YT has equally bizarre and arbitrary policies about what could not be shown about war when war is the actual topic of the vid! Ex. No buildings blowing up when the explosion was the point.... Even more ridiculous, one channel would repeat the same video in multiple languages throughout the day. A bot picked them up as 'copying content' when all were in the same channel! Anyway, one guy figured out how to make sure an actual human saw channel owners' rebuttals. He posted a video explaining. I'll try to find it and post the link here.

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Thanks, Anton. I got another note from them overnight that reinforces my belief the bots have overtaken the company and the "news" just isn't reporting it. Would explain why Google Search can be so awful. :-)

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Jul 3Liked by Collide Press

Go to the channel 'Professor Gerdes Explains'. Scroll down to 1 month ago and click 'Reporting from Ukraine Asked for Help'. That's one vid. Then 'Another Bot Attack..... ' right below it. Scroll down to two months ago and click these three vids. 'A Better Way to Contact YT' and 'Why I joined patreon'and 'War in Ukraine is Cancelled: Urgent-Help Required'

Among the four Gerdes teaches several ways he's discovered to avoid bots and contact actual humans. I hope this helps.

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Thanks. Didn't find all the videos (think you can link them?) but no worries. I'm trying to calm down after another round of bullxit with YouTube's bots. They suck so hard. Thanks again.

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