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Puppy528 8 points ago +8 / -0

I did submit a complaint on one a few days back, and their response was the following:

"Hello,

We're unable to determine your authority to bring this legal claim. The party whose legal rights are at issue - or their authorized representative - must notify us directly. If you're authorized to act on the party's behalf, please respond to this email specifying your relationship.

Regards,

The YouTube Legal Support Team "

I didn't know what to do next.

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RageBringer [S] 18 points ago +18 / -0

Tell them the following,

"I am an American Citizen with rights afforded to me by the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights. Specifically the 1st Amendment right to free speech. Due to the illegal actions of the YouTube user "The White House", of disabling comments on all of their publications, they are preventing me from providing MY SPEECH, or my feedback to their claims and statements to the public. I am a citizen and a member of the public that this government serves, and by disabling comments they prevent me from exercising my 1st amendment right to that free speech by preventing my feedback to their opinions or statements." This is based up on US Federal Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit ruling https://knightcolumbia.org/documents/a07ecc2a26/2019.07.09_ECF-141-1_Opinion.pdf

Specifically the Appeals Court ruled that, "We do conclude, however, that the First Amendment does not permit a public official who utilizes a social media account for all manner of official purposes to exclude persons from an otherwise‐open online dialogue because they expressed views with which the official disagrees."

and

"The White House had created a public forum in the interactive space of the Account, the court concluded that, by blocking the Individual commenters because of their expressed political views, the government had engaged in viewpoint discrimination."

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Puppy528 12 points ago +12 / -0

Thanks. I reworded it very slightly to be in line with my original complaint, but basically c&p'd your comment. I'll post a reply here if I receive one.