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Public statement source · YT962
YouTube took my video down TWICE!
A dated, specific grievance against YouTube — an entity whose parent is a defendant in four tracked actions — recorded 1,488 days before the earliest of them was filed (2021-06-28 → 2025-07-25, C018's filing date, differenced in code). It establishes that a platform-moderation grievance against this counterparty existed in mid-2021, years before any of it reached a court, and it is the kind of grievance-with-a-non-legal-remedy the batch addendum tracks: his response is a video, not a filing. ⚠⚠ "i just filed an appeal" and "i filed another appeal" are YouTube content appeals, not court filings. Nothing in this video is filing conduct, which is why the factor is No filing-conduct factor; a later pass keyword-matching on "filed an appeal" would misread this badly. Possible case/dispute link: None identified, and specifically not DSP007 or DSP014. The tracked Google/Alphabet actions plead something different: C018/C058 plead that Google and a surgeon "conspired to defeat his efforts to post negative reviews of the doctor on Google's platform", and C028 pleads a social-media account ban whose paragraphs in fact refer to TikTok. This video is about his own videos being removed and a channel strike on YouTube. Right party, different pleaded grievance — direction trap 4. No tracked case concerns YouTube video removals on the surfaces searched (aliases.csv, lawsuits.csv case titles and defendant lists, disputes.csv, research_notes.csv, litigation_timeline.csv).
Evidentiary treatment: This is a public statement by a party, indexed separately from court findings, party filings and this project’s research classifications. Quotations below are transcribed from the video’s own YouTube auto-generated captions and timestamped from the caption cues covering the passage quoted; each links back to that exact moment so a reader can verify it. Auto-captions are machine-generated and mis-transcribe names and figures, so wording is preserved as transcribed rather than silently corrected. No transcript is reproduced here, and neither the video’s inclusion nor its relevance tier is a judicial finding.
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What these tiers are: “Strong”, “Moderate” and “Context” are this project’s research classification of how closely a public statement bears on the documented filing-restriction indicators. They are not judicial findings, not an adjudication of anything said in a video, and not a determination that Frank Tufano is a vexatious litigant — no court in this dataset has made that determination. Court findings, party statements and research classifications are kept in separate evidence layers throughout this site; see Methodology.
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.
What the factor labels are. Each statement is also labelled with the filing-restriction factor its own words describe, so the reason for a classification is visible rather than implied. Most factors correspond to a criterion recorded in the indicator data, and the three that do not are marked as such there — a filing that has only been threatened has no docket to record, and an allegation about a court is the speaker’s characterisation rather than a recorded criterion. Repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision and cost imposition as stated motive are the three that can qualify a statement as Strong; threatened or prospective filing, self-reported filing volume, filing announced or confirmed, adverse outcome described and judicial or forum bias alleged record related but weaker signals. A statement that describes no filing conduct carries no factor badge. A factor records what the speaker said — not that a court found it, and not that anyone has been determined a vexatious litigant.
How quotations are marked: An ellipsis (…) inside a quotation marks words left out between two passages of the same video, which can sit some minutes apart. The omitted wording is not reproduced here, and a clip on the statement supercut plays the whole span from the quotation’s first word to its last — so it includes the omitted material. Quotations without an ellipsis are continuous speech.
youtube has decided my burgers and fry's day of eating video violates their guidelines as usual i posted thursday at 11 a.m and instantly at 11 am the video was taken down i couldn't figure out why it would have been taken down so i just filed an appeal and later that night at 10 40 p.m the video was reinstated because they confirmed the content does not violate the community guidelines
A dated, specific grievance against YouTube — an entity whose parent is a defendant in four tracked actions — recorded 1,488 days before the earliest of them was filed (2021-06-28 → 2025-07-25, C018's filing date, differenced in code). It establishes that a platform-moderation grievance against this counterparty existed in mid-2021, years before any of it reached a court, and it is the kind of grievance-with-a-non-legal-remedy the batch addendum tracks: his response is a video, not a filing. ⚠⚠ "i just filed an appeal" and "i filed another appeal" are YouTube content appeals, not court filings. Nothing in this video is filing conduct, which is why the factor is No filing-conduct factor; a later pass keyword-matching on "filed an appeal" would misread this badly. Possible case/dispute link: None identified, and specifically not DSP007 or DSP014. The tracked Google/Alphabet actions plead something different: C018/C058 plead that Google and a surgeon "conspired to defeat his efforts to post negative reviews of the doctor on Google's platform", and C028 pleads a social-media account ban whose paragraphs in fact refer to TikTok. This video is about his own videos being removed and a channel strike on YouTube. Right party, different pleaded grievance — direction trap 4. No tracked case concerns YouTube video removals on the surfaces searched (aliases.csv, lawsuits.csv case titles and defendant lists, disputes.csv, research_notes.csv, litigation_timeline.csv).
my channel already has a warning for talking about some bills that were passed in new york state congress last year so whenever they take down a video now i instantly get a strike what that means is i can't post or comment for a week no videos no community page they could technically do this to me every single day on every video i post for no reason
Extends the same grievance backwards — it puts an earlier, unappealed enforcement action against the channel in 2020 ("last year"), which is below this batch's window and below the sweep frontier. It also records his own account of the stake: the channel is the business's distribution, and he frames the platform as able to end it at will. That is the commercial predicate for a grievance that a much later action pleads in a different form. Possible case/dispute link: None identified — same surfaces and same reasoning as the quote above. ⚠ "new york state congress" is his own phrasing, not a caption garble that can be corrected: New York's legislature is not called a congress, and no bill, number or subject is given, so the 2020 event is not independently identifiable from this video.