no. you're not entitled to a court date. they don't have to give you a trial. this is their private property. they host your videos at their leisure. they have every right to arbitrarily demonetize you all they want.

i think it says something broader about how young people see the internet. i'm just kind of cluing into this. the internet seems to have completely destroyed any concept of market exchange. and, they see the internet not as a collection of privately owned servers but as a publicly held good.

maybe i ought to be spinning this around. after all, there's a socialist idea about property at the core of this, right?

if you think that the internet should be a publicly owned good, let's have a revolution. i'm down with that. but, you can't have it both ways.

the way people are reacting, it's like they think google is the state.

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if you want to use the employment analogy, which is wrong, then think about your argument. you're suggesting that employees ought to have the right to talk to customers however the fuck they damned well please. can you imagine walking into a restaurant and having the server swear at you while taking your order, then arguing they can't get fired due to freedom of speech? that's your analogy. great analogy.

the server could and no doubt will get fired for swearing at somebody while taking their order. why is that allowed? because it damages the brand.

but, this isn't even right. uploading here is not an employment contract. ad revenue probably isn't even legally taxable income (that is legal advice, but note that you have to win the supreme court case, first, and it's going to cost you time and money). it's legally probably a gift, for the precise reason that the terms are so vague.

there's an exchange, but the terms aren't defined. and, as such, there isn't really a contract. what are you getting paid for? it's not hourly. it's not salary. it's not even commission, really - there's no defined percentages. this is not within the realm of employment law.