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=== YouTube ===
* [[YouTube]] had some major sponsors withdraw in 2017 due to their ads appearing alongside "extremist content".<ref>[https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/youtube-loses-major-advertisers-over-offensive-videos-121400/ YouTubesome Losesmajor Major Advertisers Over Offensive Videossponsors], John Blistein, Rolling Stone, 23 March 2017</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/business/atampt-and-johnson-amp-johnson-pull-ads-from-youtube-amid-hate-speech-concerns.html AT&Twithdraw andin Johnson & Johnson Pull Ads From YouTube2017], Sapnadue Maheshwarito andtheir Daisukeads Wakabayashi,appearing Newalongside York"extremist Times, 22 March 2017</ref>content". They responded by using automated algorithms to "demonetise" some videos (removing the ads) or place them into a "limited state" ("In response to user reports, we have disabled some features, such as comments, sharing and suggested videos, because this video contains content that may be inappropriate or offensive to some audiences"). They placed some content behind age restrictions and censored many videos entirely. Among the false positives: news footage from the Syrian conflict,<ref>[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59jgka/a-brief-history-of-youtube-censorship Anews Brieffootage Historyfrom ofthe YouTube2010s CensorshipSyrian conflict], Jillian York, Vice (magazine), 26 Mar 2018</ref> LGBTQ content,<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/21/youtube-advertisers-censorship ToLGBTQ censor or not to censor? YouTube's double bindcontent], Alex Hern, UK Guardian, 21 Mar 2017</ref> historical information about the Holocaust,<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/youtube-holocaust-censorship-hate-speech-google-facebook-1444090 YouTubehistorical Wantsinformation to Fight Hate Speech. So it Censored My Educational Video Aboutabout the Holocaust], Marc Schulman , Newsweek, 14 June 2019</ref> and content about Nazism done in a historical, artistic or satirical context, such as gameplay videos of [[World War II]] video games or ''any mention of Hitler, Nazis or the swastika''. Even other despotic figures such as [[Joseph Stalin]] are being demonetized as well. Authors attempting to appeal these automated decisions often find Google to be quite unhelpful.
* YouTube's strict compliance to COPPA guidelines in 2020 caused a lot of backlash both from content creators of family-friendly children's videos, who contended that the demonetization would affect their livelihood and stifle interaction, and those who while do not necessarily make videos aimed at children, are still in some ways affected due to the automated flagging of content remotely resembling children's media. Heck, even adult cartoons such as ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' and legitimate parodies of children's content e.g. [[YouTube Poop]]s are unjustly flagged as for kids despite their content being oriented more towards mature audiences. Similar to other videos pertaining to sensitive topics, restrictions are applied to videos marked as "for kids", albeit a tad stricter as not only you couldn't leave any comments to them, you are also unable to save them to a playlist, perhaps likely due to reports of pedophiles compiling playlists of children's videos for them to disgustingly lust upon.
* Anthony Fantano, host of [[The Needle Drop]], stated on a [https://twitter.com/theneedledrop/status/915285823955853314 tweet] that he had to discontinue his meme channel thatistheplan because his videos were getting hit with demonetization.
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