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Originally posted by muddysquirrel
Youtube is not some national institution. Its a private company. They have a right to decide if they want disturbing content on their channel or not.
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Youtube has the right to do whatever they want with their videos, but companies who file a copyright claim don't. If a video is removed on the basis of copyright infringement, then it needs to actually be copyright infringement. If it's not, this is actually still against the US law as it is right now. If it was Youtube's own decision to remove the video it'd have been different, but otherwise US law overrides Youtube policy.
Now if it's the graphic content that caused the video to be taken down it's a whole different story. But it's not copyright infringement.