I believe YouTube's use of marking accounts for having 'violated'
YouTube Community Guidelines is one sided. I had posted material that
meant to grow awareness about animal cruelty. It was against abusers
of animals. The video was taken down (after having been up for
months), and I was given some sort of a 'strike.' I guess that means
the animals abusers won, and me and people like me who want to build
awareness lost.

Maybe I should go around and flag all sorts of videos regarding human
abuse and cruelty as well. It would be no different than flagging my
videos.

As a result I've decided no to post to YouTube any longer.

http://www.morshe.com/2008/11/open-letter-to-youtube-regarding.html

If your video contained actual images of animal cruelty, then it was
against the rules, no matter what your reason for it. There are ways
of making your point without resorting to shock imagry. Remember that
children as young as 13 may be browsing through the site.

On Nov 12, 11:57 am, bmorsh wrote:

YouTube does not seem to have a "motivation" caveat in the policy
against graphic imagery. So posting graphic images of cruelty to show
that cruelty is wrong is not considered acceptable.

Since YouTube seems to be a good venue for getting your video seen,
you might want to rather consider reediting the specifically graphic
parts. Sometimes when things of that nature are shown on National
Geographic, a bloody close up will be blurred, or pixelated, or
covered up. If you still have retained all of the original material
(something I always advocate), redoing those parts shouldn't be all
that difficult.