Zenien
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I JUST SPOKE WITH THE HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR YOUTUBE. AS IN THE ONE PERSON WE SHOULD BE TALKING TO. I'm not going to post his name here because I don't want him to get flooded with calls. The second receptionist I spoke to said that she would take care of me, and OH MY GOD she did.
I spoke with him for about 7 minutes and he told me things on and off the record. He said that he was aware of the situation personally, and was looking into it. He said that there are a lot of reasons why channels are pulled down. He then asked me a bunch of questions, most notably these three:
1) Why is this situation such a big deal? (A genuine concern)
2) What the video was/who owned the rights to it
3) What other videos were on the channel, and were they all owned by the user.
My answers were:
1) The reason it is such a big deal is because there are tons of news organizations both big (like FOX), and small (like no-name blogs), that have mentioned this video over the last couple days and if they plan to air something on this, their fact-checkers will get nowhere because the account has been suspended. He understood fully my argument. I also said that another reason it was a big deal is because this is the first celebrity to have spoken out against Scientology, and it was hosted specifically on this user account, because the account-holder was the one doing the interview.
2) I told him that the interview was conducted by the account-holder (as I said above), and that he owned the rights to it.
3) I told him that all the other videos on the site were either personal videos, or videos that the account-holder himself conducted.
Another thing we discussed was the fact that Mark Bunker was an Emmy award-winning journalist and that it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense for him to personally do an interview that would be a terms of service violation.
We discussed a few other things off the record, and as such, I will not report those things. Rest assured, he is working on it.
tl;dr: EPIC WIN.
Also, the reason I was able to get this far is because I essentially wear a press hat, so there you go.
http://forums.enturbulation.org/15-breaking-news/statement-youtube-executive-re-xenutv1-9751/