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Looks like youtube account has been restored. Update from the medium article:

>> UPDATE: We’re back as of 8:39pm EDT April 11, 2020! I received the following email from YouTube: Hi there, After a review of your account, we have confirmed that your YouTube account is not in violation of our Terms of Service. As such, we have unsuspended your account. This means your account is once again active and operational. If you forgot your password, please visit this link to reset it: <snip> Sincerely, The YouTube Team



I wonder if that would have been the result if the author didn't make so much noise about it....


It would not have. For each of these articles you see, there are hundreds of others who lose access to their account for no reason and never get it back.


or how prevailent the problem is, and is just not heard because most people don't have a voice on the internet large enough to garner attention.


I think you mean “prevalent”. “To prevail” has a different meaning.


I hope they they create an archive of their content to prevent being in a position they can loose it all again


Done.


No apologies?


Please lets not start this. Apologies means nothing, especially coming from companies.


What I’d really want is not an apology but a post mortem: “here’s what caused this to happen and here’s what we are doing so it doesn’t happen again”


This is what’s important from a company.


That’s bleak. We’re at the whim of our corporate overlords.


[Your account is experiencing a car accident]


I hope this makes things better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4


That would be an admission of guilt.


Not really. You can apologize when something happens by accident too. Does not mean there was intent to it.


Obligatory reference: https://xkcd.com/945/




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