According to a PTI report on Tuesday, YouTube, a video streaming site, removed over 2.25 million videos from its Indian account during the quarter that ended in December 2023 due to violations of community norms.
With this, India has surpassed both the US and Russia to top the list of video takedowns. With 1,243,871 video takedowns, Singapore ranked second on the list, and the US came in third with 788,354 video deletions.
Russia came in fifth place with 516,629 removals, while Indonesia came in fourth with 770,157 video takedowns, according to YouTube's Community Guidelines Enforcement report, which offers worldwide statistics on the reports the Google-owned platform receives and how it carries out policy enforcement.
Over 9 million videos were taken down by YouTube globally at this time due to them not adhering to its community standards. Over 96% of these movies were initially reported as suspicious by computers rather than by people.
The videos were taken down due to their violation of community standards with characteristics such as misinformation, violent or graphic content, child safety, nudity and sexual content, and harmful or dangerous content.
According to the most recent statistics, almost 2.25 million videos (2,254,902) were taken down from YouTube in India between October and December 2023 due to community guidelines violations. Out of 30 countries, India had the most videos removed.
YouTube terminated 20.5 million (20,592,341) channels worldwide for the quarter that ended in December 2023 due to violations of its community guidelines.
According to the claim, all of a channel's videos are deleted when it is shut down. 95.5 million (95,534,236) of these videos were deleted during this time owing to channel-level terminations.
According to a statement from YouTube, a channel will be shut down if it receives three community guidelines strikes in a 90-day period, has one instance of serious abuse (such predatory behavior), or is shown to be entirely committed to breaking the rules (which is frequently the case with spam accounts).
The video streaming service, owned by Google, claimed to put a lot of effort into preserving a lively and safe community.
