I'm Being Crippled By Censorship & It Can't Go On Much Longer...

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Hi everyone, I had to vent somewhere.

So in the past 24 hours, we at WAM have almost entirely been demonetized by YouTube. Our content is flagged as "hate speech". Now this isn't new. We've been getting demonetized like crazy for a while but they've managed to step it up despite YouTube claiming a month ago that it fixed the demonetization "bugs" and that there is now 30% more content monetized. The claim is bogus.

They demonetize us for the first few days when we get our views and then when the views stop coming in, they suddenly monetize the videos. That's what the recent claim is regarding and it's out of context nonsense.

Interestingly, YouTube says our videos are not advertiser friendly all while continuing to advertise on the videos and taking all the money for themselves. This will be detailed in an upcoming video report we'll be posting shortly.

On top of us being stifled by a company that has a monopoly on information and has gotten billions of dollars from taxpayers, Facebook has also banned myself as well as Hive account@theeconomictruth from sharing our content to people on the social media site. So our main source of marketing has been cut off.

At the same time as all this has been happening (and remember, this is in the past 24 hours), I sent $8,000 USD of Bitcoin from Exodus to Bittrex and it just...disappeared. It's no where. After sending it out, I clicked on the transaction in my wallet. The transaction ID according to both BlockCypher and Blockchain.info does NOT EXIST! Weird, because the hard earned money is gone from my wallet. Exodus does not have a support team, they just have Frequently Asked Questions" so I have no way of getting any information. Have had a support ticket open on Bittrex where there is no evidence of a deposit waiting to be confirmed but no one has gotten back to me yet. I refreshed my Bitcoin in my Exodus wallet and rescanned the blockchain and suddenly the record of the transaction disappeared as well. Money's STILL gone...
This is a week after $10,000 CAD just disappeared into thin air out of my Exodus wallet without any transactions being made.

So plain and simple, I'm going broke due to my Bitcoin literally disappearing into thin air as I've attempted to track it and there's no record of it existing all while YouTube has cut off my revenue almost entirely and Facebook has banned me and others from sharing my own videos.

Not sure where to go from here, but I'm about to starve because of it. I work 18 hours a day to bring people content that I'm proud of and I can't imagine doing anything else. The demand is there, but I need to make enough money to eat and pay rent. It's becoming next to impossible to do. I don't need to make a lot of money, just enough to continue doing what I love, interviewing hundreds of people, doing nearly a thousand reports, doing documentaries, reporting on events, etc.

So I'm forced to reach out to my viewers for a hand up. In the end, independent media depends on its viewers as the establishment does everything in their power to crush any opposition. Information is one of the keys to individual liberty and when information is suppressed we cannot go on any longer.

I'm going to leave some donation options below. I really can't do it without you. I really don't want to ask for money but censorship and demonetization is killing us as well as so many other independent medias.

While I really appreciate crypto donations, the most important right now is fiat so I can afford food and rent while doing this work 24/7.