What's Next For YouTubers Impacted By Crypto-Related Content Ban?

The ban, which lasted about four days before YouTube began reinstating videos, impacted YouTubers whose channels reached thousands of subscribers, as well as those with smaller audiences.

Unsurprisingly, many of the YouTubers impacted have now turned to decentralized video platforms to share their content.

LBRY, a decentralized content sharing and publishing platform created in 2016, uses blockchain technology to allow content creators to store and download content in a peer-to-peer manner.

Unlike YouTube, which has stringent content policies in place, Kauffman explained that LBRY doesn't have strict policies regarding what users share and publish.

"LBRY as a protocol doesn't have policies on these things, just like HTTP or SMTP doesn't have a policy on these things. However, as a U.S. company, we do have a content policy for what is allowed to be stored on our servers."

The platform has over 1 million registered users and uses cryptocurrency STEEM to reward its users for publishing content.

As a result, video content on DTube is almost impossible to tamper with.

According to a blog post, YouTube has been deleting violative content, highlighting authoritative content, reducing the spread of borderline content and rewarding trusted creators.

"Arguably, YouTube as a content provider has the authority and right to remove content that it feels violates its Terms of Service, and in so-doing, has the right to remove videos, even if it involves digital money or cryptocurrency."

According to Rossow, the problem for both content creators and YouTube is identifying and discerning what is "Commercially viable" and what is "Educational. He explained:."The crypto videos that were recently removed did not involve violent or political content, or content harmful to children.