Censorship

A channel known as Lokhit India experienced the same. Ambuj Kumar, the editor of the channel got an email on 3 April around 1:30-2:00 am from YouTube which said that it no longer considers the channel appropriate for monetisation. A demonetised channel will not receive any revenue from any of its videos.

“YouTube did not inform me exactly why they demonetised the channel, but stated that the channel posted harmful content,” he stated.  The day before receiving the notice, the channel had uploaded a video on the Supreme Court’s statement on Patanjali proprietor Ramdev Baba, titled ‘Fraud Ramdev?’.  According to Kumar, there had been no attempt at demonetisation from YouTube prior to this. Neither had he ever received any complaint from any government authority regarding their content, nor was informed what specific video went against YouTube policies.