YouTube will waive a creator’s content violation warning — if they attend a class
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#6E930)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube wants to give content creators who violate its guidelines a second chance. Creators will now get the option to take an educational training course" when they receive a community guidelines warning, and in exchange, YouTube will lift that warning from their account.
YouTube previously issued a lifetime warning to channels that violated its content guidelines and removed the video in question. The lifetime warning stayed on a YouTuber's account forever and preceded the strikes that a creator would receive for breaking its rules again.
Under YouTube's new policies, the platform will still take down the video in violation of its rules, but it will give creators a chance to get rid of YouTube's warning by having them take a class...