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Sounds terrible. How are his accounts being taken down?

Check the reviewer's twitter. He has shared slack threads where the marketing Execs ask the entire channel to brigade & report his tweets/linkedin posts/YouTube videos without any copyrighted content as well.

https://twitter.com/whiteHatSnr/

It's a shame YouTube can't moderate these claims using humans...

(A quick sidenote: funny he took the handle "whiteHatSnr")

WhiteHat Jr. abuses the DMCA and copyright policies to take down accounts and content. There was this article [1] where they detailed it really well (its a long article and requires login)
> It seems that fairly early on, WhiteHat Jr figured out that it can create temporary nuisance for everyone by reporting their video as a copyright or trademark infringement. Which is why after say, 15-30 days, several of Poonia’s videos were reinstated, after having been taken down.
[1] https://themorningcontext.com/indias-whitehatjr-is-startup-h...

someone on reddit posted a screenshot of the complete article https://i.imgur.com/LBGtP4f.jpg

I'm in awe after reading that.

The videos were reinstated thanks to coverage by Forbes on the issue.

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