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YouTube Suspends Ads on Logan Paul's Channels After 'Recent Pattern' of Behavior in Videos (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on from the bringing-some-discipline dept.

More problems and controversy for Logan Paul, the YouTube star who caused a strong public backlash when he posted a video of a suicide victim in Japan. From a report: Google's video platform today announced that it would be pulling advertising temporarily from his video channel in response to a "recent pattern of behavior" from him. This is in addition to Paul's suspensions from YouTube's Preferred Ad program and its Originals series, both of which have been in place since January; and comes days after YouTube's CEO promised stronger enforcement of YouTube's policies using a mix of technology and 10,000 human curators.

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  1. Another douche bites the dust. by Revek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We can add him to a long line of useless internet stars. May he serve as an example of what not to be.

    1. Re: Another douche bites the dust. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      What censorship? They didn't pull his videos, and he's free to say whatever he wants in his videos, it's just that Google doesn't want to pay him anymore for the type of videos he's making.

    2. Re: Another douche bites the dust. by JBMcB · · Score: 5, Insightful

      What censorship? They didn't pull his videos, and he's free to say whatever he wants in his videos, it's just that Google doesn't want to pay him anymore for the type of videos he's making.

      It's more along the lines of, Google doesn't want advertisers to be able to put their ads on his channel. Maybe there are advertisers who would love to put their ads on his channel. Now they can't.

      I've seen Youtube channels that have been demonetized that now do their own native ads, so advertisers definitely support some of them. If that trend continues, I can see Youtube banning that practice as well.

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    3. Re: Another douche bites the dust. by iamhassi · · Score: 5, Insightful

      But YouTube is not the Internet, and Google should be free to enforce whatever standards they wish on their platform, same as Netflix or Funny or Die or ABC or whoever.

      Except YouTube/Google and Facebook are the internet. They pretty much decide what everyone in the US sees and hears. If google/YouTube and Facebook remove everything you ever post you pretty much do not exist because it is hard to exist outside of those platforms.

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  2. Re:Sorry dude by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, you should. I earn $50,000 a year in IT in Silicon Valley so I am doing pretty well, but I ALSO drive for Uber.

  3. Hypocracy by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    YouTube was all fine with him being an asshole when he was making them a ton of advertising money, but just a little bit of negative press and they drop him like a brick.

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  4. Re:Weak remedy by ausekilis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google is in a rare position to do exactly what folks have said on here for years.

    "STOP MAKING STUPID PEOPLE FAMOUS!"

    The sooner idiots like this stop getting attention for being idiots, the better off our society will be. Youtube should just yank his accounts, or at the very least lower his search status so low that you'd have to go into the trenches (10+ pages) to find him.