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Online! | PRAY: SermonIndex Youtube Channel Deleted without any notice by Youtube | | EDIT: Saints, share this news, it is the first large Christian site to report this:
Thousands Of Christian Sermons Deleted By YouTube Without Any Warning - https://hellochristian.com/6160-thousands-of-christian-sermons-deleted-by-youtube-without-any-warning
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Saints,
This was a shock to hear of a brother report this to me today. We trust the Lord in this. We had over 35 million views on the videos. There were embedded in 10,000's of places on the internet. And we had over 5000 videos uploaded.
https://www.youtube.com/user/sermonindex
This account has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's policy against spam, deceptive practices, and misleading content or other Terms of Service violations.
Please pray that this situation can be remedied somehow, we cannot even access to the videos nor even find the copyright problems or violations.
If there are any brethren who are lawyer type brothers that can help with forms and legal language for this that could be beneficial just to try and ask youtube to understand what has happened and why.
Psalm 113:4 -New International Version (NIV)
The Lord is exalted over all the nations, his glory above the heavens.
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EDIT:
We are encouraging saints to report this information to christian news sites and christian advocy websites:
Our entire SermonIndex.net channel was removed without nofiication a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/user/sermonindex
it says on that page: "This account has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's policy against spam, deceptive practices, and misleading content or other Terms of Service violations."
On further investigation, submitting a form to youtube I received the more vague reply of the reason why the account was deleted. At this point I have to believe there is religious discrimination possibly involved and this does not seem normal to have no email warning or exact reason why the account is deleted.
The Channel was the 34,000 largest on youtube and probably one of the largest Christian sermon channels with over 34 million views and 5000+ videos with 90,000 subscribers.
the reply from Youtube was:
RE: [3-9681000015517] [email protected]<[email protected]> Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 3:23 PM
To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]
Hello, Thank you for your account suspension appeal. We have decided to keep your account suspended based on our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service. Please visit http://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines for more information.
Sincerely, The YouTube Team
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Some social media responses:
https://twitter.com/turnkit/status/826557501957083142
https://twitter.com/SomeoneHasToSay/status/826596325995249665
https://www.facebook.com/sermonindex/posts/10155872352729199
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=137916053384814&id=100014992608569
At this point I cannot but think this could be religious discrimation and hate speech trigged by an attack from the enemy. We have been getting thousands to pray over this situation.
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Anamosa41 Member
Joined: 2011/10/19 Posts: 112 Georgia, USA
| Re: PRAY: SermonIndex Youtube Channel Deleted without any notice by Youtube | | This is sad to hear. I will be praying. _________________ Ryan Rutan
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Sree Member
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| Re: | | Prayed and will keep in prayers. _________________ Sreeram
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chetanch Member
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sermonindex Moderator
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Online! | Re: | | Thank you brother I have filed out that form with the right email now. _________________ SI Moderator - Greg Gordon
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lovejt Member
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| Re: | | Lifting this up and joining you all. _________________ james thorpe
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davidkeel Member
Joined: 2006/5/11 Posts: 519 West Sussex, England
| Re: | | sorry to hear this news Greg, am praying for it to be resolved quickly.
_________________ David Keel
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2017/1/30 18:25 | Profile |
dolfan Member
Joined: 2011/8/23 Posts: 1727 Tennessee, but my home's in Alabama
| Re: | | Greg, I just saw this for the first time. I am no cooyright lawyer, but if you email me I will do as much as I can.
Praying that they reinstate. My thought is if they don't, it may be due to thinking of much of it as hate speech, based on the article another poster linked you to. _________________ Tim
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2017/1/30 18:37 | Profile |
sermonindex Moderator
Joined: 2002/12/11 Posts: 39795 Canada
Online! | Re: | | Thanks brother, I got off the phone with a christian lawyer who gave basic advice. It seems unless Youtube responds and gives the reason we cannot know.
My mind goes towards christian persecution, LGBT rights and other possibilities if there is not a clear answer.
This could also be a spam attempt by an enemy of the gospel and therefore could somehow be reconcilled to get the account back up. _________________ SI Moderator - Greg Gordon
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