I run a pretty controversial channel on YouTube, AVILSD. It's funny how even now, at 52,200 subscribers I have to worry about my channel being entirely removed.
I've uploaded hundreds of videos over the past year and a half, have recently been working on various projects and collaborations to grow my channels, and now it seems all of that is at risk of going to waste.
My video, "How to buy from the Darknet!" ( Darknet Market Guide ) was APPROVED by a YouTube employee last year. I had a private phone call with Sarah from YT HQ in San Bruno, California. She looked over my channel, said it was okay and all content was fine. At the time it was pretty small (like 10K subscribers and didn't have more than like 100 videos I believe.) I specifically pointed at the darknet market guide as that was one of the most viewed videos, and one of the most controversial ones.
Since then I've made 2 more darknet guides and have made hundreds of videos about drugs and darknet.
IT IS NOT ILLEGAL TO DISCUSS ABOUT DRUGS. IT IS NOT ILLEGAL TO DISCUSS ABOUT THE DARKNET.
IT IS NOT EVEN ILLEGAL TO GO ONTO THE DARKNET MARKETS. IT IS NOT ILLEGAL TO BROWSE AND EVEN ORDER CERTAIN ITEMS. NOT EVERYTHING IS ILLEGAL ON THERE.
And now you want to know what happened? I've had that video reviewed multiple times and it was approved for monetization. Not only that, but I submitted copyright strikes when others reuploaded the same video and YouTube was FORCED to review that for sure. It was left. And the videos were removed.
Proof: