YouTube Bans Again: Ripple’s CTO Account Latest To Get Banned

YouTube bans again, and this time is the account of the Ripple’s CTO allegedly for impersonating which is interesting that the ban comes a week after the platform got sued by Ripple. In our Ripple news, we will read more about the latest ban from the biggest video sharing platform.

Youtube bans again and has discontinued the channel of David Schwartz, the CTO of Ripple for impersonation. The suspension comes a week after Ripple filed an official lawsuit against the Google-owned platform. YouTube has done this in the past as well and is known for suspending and deleting accounts that were related to the crypto industry. Not only that but it seems that the platform is escalating the entire situation even further by suspending the channel of David Schwartz:

Weirdly, @YouTube just decided to suspend my channel (SJoelKatz) for impersonation. I wonder who they think I was impersonating.

— David Schwartz (@JoelKatz) April 29, 2020

Schwartz got the notice and it said ‘’please be aware that you are prohibited from accessing, possessing or creating any other YouTube accounts.’’ The company that Schwartz fork for recently filed a lawsuit against the giant video sharing platform. The company behind Ripple wanted to hold YouTube accountable for not taking enough action in confronting the scammers that run fraudulent activities on the website.

Ironically, Ripple’s lawsuit only emphasizes the increased number of crypto scams and fake impersonations that show up on YouTube. The document says that Ripple’s name was involved in multiple fraudulent activities in hundreds of videos uploaded on the platform. This resulted in the company hiring a cybersecurity vendor in order to help them solve the issues.

The first wave of bans and video removals started back in 2019 when the platform started targeting some of the most popular crypto creators. A few days later, YouTube sorted out the issues after one user claimed that it was all a huge misunderstanding and most of his content was restored. However, a clampdown on crypto-based content started and has been going on and off for months.

YouTube still claims that the removed videos were harmful and dangerous. A few months in, the CryptoPurge seems to be a result of the inability of the platform to see the obvious difference between legitimate and illegitimate scams and uploads. Despite that, the platform still goes after crypto content creators.