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Public statement source · YT878
MY PARENTS GOT VACCINATED
A dated, first-person account of platform enforcement against his own content. Computed as a plain date difference from the publish date: "about four months ago" relative to 2021-04-05 puts the removed video around 2020-12-05 (2020-12-05 → 2021-04-05 = 121 days). ⚠ Direction trap 4 applies squarely. Google/YouTube is a tracked party in the dataset, but the tracked grievance is not this one — the recorded case pleads that Google suppressed his own reviews of a surgeon, a different direction entirely from a video of his being removed under a health-misinformation policy. A shared defendant is not a shared grievance. ⚠ Also note that a removal and a platform strike are content moderation, not litigation; the archive's settled false-positive list already records that "filed an appeal" on this channel means a YouTube content appeal, and nothing in this video escapes that category. Possible case/dispute link: none identified. Not linked to any tracked case or dispute; the removed video's own subject matter was New York State Senate legislation, which is lawmaking, not a proceeding.
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How a tier is assigned.Strong — the statement names a tracked case or dispute and describes filing conduct of the kind the indicators document: repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision, or filing framed as imposing cost on the opponent. Moderate — it bears on litigation conduct or chronology in a tracked dispute, but the case link is tentative or the statement describes something other than the speaker’s own filing behaviour. Context — general commentary with no specific tracked case identified.
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about four months ago i did a video on the new york state senate bills they were passing and it was taken down within half an hour of being posted this is the reason why that happened
A dated, first-person account of platform enforcement against his own content. Computed as a plain date difference from the publish date: "about four months ago" relative to 2021-04-05 puts the removed video around 2020-12-05 (2020-12-05 → 2021-04-05 = 121 days). ⚠ Direction trap 4 applies squarely. Google/YouTube is a tracked party in the dataset, but the tracked grievance is not this one — the recorded case pleads that Google suppressed his own reviews of a surgeon, a different direction entirely from a video of his being removed under a health-misinformation policy. A shared defendant is not a shared grievance. ⚠ Also note that a removal and a platform strike are content moderation, not litigation; the archive's settled false-positive list already records that "filed an appeal" on this channel means a YouTube content appeal, and nothing in this video escapes that category. Possible case/dispute link: none identified. Not linked to any tracked case or dispute; the removed video's own subject matter was New York State Senate legislation, which is lawmaking, not a proceeding.
so unfortunately as much as a lot of you guys have been asking me i cannot talk about the vaccines i cannot talk about coven 19. there is no point because they're going to take the video down immediately within 15 or 30 minutes and it's jeopardizing my youtube channel i guess there's a lot of ways around it just by stating facts that kind of contradict the mainstream narrative but i'm not leaving that up to youtube's interpretation
His own words resuming after the read passage, stating that he is self-censoring a topic because of the platform's enforcement risk to his channel. Recorded because the archive tracks his stated grievances against platforms and because this is a clean, unambiguous piece of his own speech in a video that is otherwise seven minutes of someone else's text. It describes no filing, no threatened filing and no legal step of any kind — only a decision about what to publish. Possible case/dispute link: none identified.