YouTube Bans Spaceshot76 Occurred on 15 Oct 2020

YouTube banned Spaceshot76, a political content creator, in an attempt to purge channels that the platform claimed were spreading “harmful conspiracy theories.” The year and a half old channel had about 160k subscribers and over 32.2 million total views across 791 videos.

Spaceshot76 immediately filed an appeal which was promptly rejected the following day. Speaking to BigTech.fail, Spaceshot76 pointed out how YouTube totally disregarded their own three-strike system for nearly all channels banned around this time, including his:

They gave us ALL the same carbon copy email… Important to note YouTube has a 3 strike policy that they did not use… so long story short they’re playing games and they are not following their own rules.

Spaceshot76 was banned from both Twitter and Instagram about a week later without any possibility for appeal.

About ten months prior in January, YouTube issued three false strikes against Spaceshot76, all within a month on a single video.