How did your video get uploaded on Youtube by others? Is it possible to delete it?
With over two billion monthly users, YouTube has cemented its place in our daily lives.
On Youtube, anyone is allowed to upload videos. It is a Google-owned online video sharing and social media platform, as we all know. To do this, you’ll need to create a Google account if you don’t already have one. You may access YouTube, Google My Business, Gmail, and any other YouTube platform with your Google account.
Unfortunately, YouTube’s platform is regularly used to cause severe, repetitive damage to an individual or business. After all, it’s just as easy to share a damaging video as it is to post a harmless and entertaining one.
The common situation where other people would upload video relates to a person.
Many commercial, informative, and humorous videos have been uploaded to Youtube since submitting a video is a simple action for the general public. Furthermore, YouTube’s massive growth in traffic created its own set of issues. A recording of a road accident, a misunderstanding, a person’s misbehaviour or inappropriate action while riding on the subway, or perhaps an outdated video such as their 10-year-old singing competition video are all examples of scenarios where other people would upload the video related to a person.
How can these videos affect individuals or businesses?
Businesses and individuals use YouTube for a variety of purposes, including sharing videos with friends and family. Many businesses use YouTube to launch or promote products, promote their brand, monitor customer feedback, and provide customer service. YouTube videos will display on both Google and YouTube search engines; it is a popular video-sharing website available to the public. Their videos will appear on Youtube and Google when their name or company name is searched.
Anyone with internet access can see the video relating to you or your firm, and it may also appear as a suggested video. As a result, individuals and businesses may wish to delete Youtube videos uploaded by others because they may contain false or damaging content that harms their online reputation.
Fortunately, there are several strategies to remove negative Google search results and YouTube videos.
Internet Removals (Content Removal Agency) has a proven process for quickly identifying defamatory content about individuals and businesses videos and working on content removal. We have implemented various strategies for our clients over the past 10+ years to entirely remove harmful or defamatory videos from YouTube and other platforms, which immensely minimized the visibility in Google search results.
Why Google may or may not index the video on search results?
YouTube videos occasionally contain embarrassing, damaging, or defamatory content about individuals and businesses. You might wonder why this is happening, especially since the YouTube link containing the negative YouTube video ranks higher than other well-known web domains. There are 3 major factors for this:
- Engagement: In 2021, engagement will be the most important search ranking factor for YouTube content. In general, the more views, clicks, likes, and other interactions a YouTube video receives, the higher it will display in Google search results.
- Domain Authority: Every website on the internet is given a certain “domain authority” level by Google. The higher the website’s domain authority, the higher it will appear in search results. YouTube videos frequently occur at the top of search results because it is one of the most influential websites on the internet. Furthermore, Google has changed its search results to prioritize video content, amplifying the impact of potentially damaging or embarrassing YouTube videos.
- Insufficient video content: If you haven’t uploaded any YouTube videos related to your name or business, it will be much easier for other people’s videos to rank higher in Google search results.
Is it possible to delete uploaded video on Youtube, and what is the common benefit of individuals or businesses after removing it from the internet?
Intellectual property infringement, copyright infringement, and trademark infringement are the most common removal requests YouTube receives. YouTube is often compliant with these types of takedown requests since it does not want to violate copyright laws. YouTube’s legal department and administrators frequently respond with these requests and remove content that violates the copyright.
If a negative, misleading, or defamatory video on YouTube affects your reputation, our content removal experts at Internet Removals can certainly assist.
How can we assist you to Delete a video on Youtube?
Internet Removals can assist with content removal, particularly if you are the subject of defamatory postings. Further, Internet Removals are specialists in online reputation management, so if you or your business’s reputation have been affected by the content on Facebook, Google, Youtube or any other online platforms, we may be able to assist.
We can be contacted by either phoning 1300 039 196 or sending an email to [email protected].
Disclaimer: There is no obligation in contacting Internet Removals for advice relating to online defamatory content and our services with removal. Internet Removals is not providing any legal advice. If legal advice is recommended or required, Internet Removals can refer you to IRG Law Pty Ltd. You should not rely upon the contents of this newsletter for any litigation, decision to litigate or decision to publish material online.
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What is cyber harassment? I think many of us have heard about this word before, and it is not an ordinary case that happens daily; however, we still can’t find the exact approach to deal with such an issue. Generally, cyber harassment is the use of the Internet to harass, threaten, or maliciously embarrass; and it often includes stalking and various hate crimes. Typical behaviour involved with cyber-harassment will be sending a threatening email, sending a virus email, spreading rumours online or making a defamatory statement online about the victims, etc.
An AFP study from Sydney reported that one out of five Australians had fallen victim to abusive behaviour, including getting their most intimate moments filmed or captured on camera without permission and then having such humiliating pictures made public on social networks. Eleven percent of victims have had their photos posted on social media sites like Snapchat and Facebook without their permission.
Why People need to remove all their videos from the Internet, social media account like YouTube Channel?
In this digital era, people live on social platforms, they talk, discuss, communicate and deliver messages to others through social platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and YouTube. You are able to get someone’s details from such a platform quickly, what they do, what they have uploaded and what they made in the past, by just searching their name.
Even though you did not know who they are, you can easily get all relevant data about them, including their images and videos. People do not often realise that this information could be used against them; however, once they are cyber-bullied, they often then regret sharing such content with the public.
According to a survey conducted in 2015 by the non-profit organisation Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), involving 1,606 respondents, a large proportion (61%) said they took nude images or videos of themselves and shared them with others, while 23% were victims of revenge porn.
Advanced technology provides ease for us to access all information that we want and need, but it also threatens us by showing up the info we owned to others. People use the ease of technology to spread fake rumours and annoying messages that threaten others, making the world terrifying if you are being harassed by such behaviour. So now the question is how are we going to protect ourselves from being cyber harassed? How to delete or remove such humiliating videos from the Internet, social media account like YouTube channel? Here are some guidelines you might refer to.
Useful Step on How to Delete Videos Online
1. Find the source of the explicit video
The first step to removing your video from the Internet will be finding the source, the website that is showing your video; it must be the original source. This happens when the video is not shared by yourself; you are not the owner of the source; you need to seek help from the host or owner of the original website to delete all the videos. You were able to search keywords through the search engine, to check through the Google result, whether there is any related video about you, if yes you may click through the website and ask the website owner to take the video down for you.
It may require time to delete a video from the website, as you may not get any response from the website owner, or you may wait a long time only to get the reply from the owner. But you still can get the video removed from the site as most websites practice a strict copyright infringement policy so that they will take down the post immediately.
If you are unable to contact the website owner, you may try to access WHOis.net, where you can find the website owner by just pasting the website URL to the search box and you may be able to contact the particular website owner.
2. Delete video from social networking sites
All the social networking sites have the feature of “reporting abuse or misusing content”. So, when you find your video is spread virally on the social networking site, you may report the post to the site owner, and they will block the content to show to the public and clear the video from the website. Make sure all websites have deleted the video related to you, especially the porn website. For some porn websites, a policy requires the video to be removed 24-48 hours after the site owners have been alerted about the problem.
3. Lastly, you may seek professional help
Those sexually explicit videos may cause a massive effect on the victims, either mentally or physically. In such cases, you may ask a professional or a lawyer for a legal solution. You may be able to contact a lawyer that specializes in defamation to provide you with some legal advice on how to solve such an issue. Alternatively, you may seek the help of Internet Removals to clear all those related videos more effectively and increase the success rate of removing such content online.
Steps on How to Remove Video from YouTube Channel
1. Log in to your own YouTube account.
2. Go to your own account by clicking on your profile picture at the top right corner.
3. After clicking on your profile, there will be a drop-down menu, from the menu, select “YouTube Studio”.
4. Clicking “YouTube Studio” will bring you to your profile page, where you can see all of the videos that you’ve uploaded before.
5. From here, hover your mouse over the video that you’d like to delete. When you do this, you’ll see two buttons appear: a play button and an “options” button that looks like three stacked dots. Click on the stacked dots to open up a menu of your options.
6. Click on the menu button, and select “Delete”.
7. This will pull up a pop-up box where you’ll be asked if you want to permanently delete the video. If you’re ready to commit, then check the box that says you understand this is permanent, and click “Delete video”. Your video will then be successfully deleted permanently.
Conclusion: Remove embarrassing video to prevent to become the victims of cyber harassment
Sexually explicit videos may destroy a person’s image and reputation; they may cause a person harm who suffers unfair cyberbullying and criticism and lead to depression. It can become one of the main factors that cause people to suffer from depression and other mental health problems. According to the report of Cyber Security Malaysia (CSM) provides that in the year 2018, there are over 356 cases related to cyber harassment in Malaysia.
People do not realise the importance of protecting themselves from cyber harassment, and they did not know how to prevent such issues. Hence, it is vital to educate the people to be alert about issues like cyberbullying, and at the same time provide some precaution for them to avoid being the victims.
Erasing those offending videos is a solution to such an issue, but it is now the best way to solve the problem. As you can’t 100% ensure that all related videos about you are deleted from the Internet, some viewers may download the video file before you remove it and share it to other sites, being stored somewhere else.
If you have any query about removing fake, false or untruthful content from the Internet, you may be able to contact us via email at [email protected]. At Internet Removals, we provide a specialised service whereby we lodge and manage applications for the removal of content to offending search engines, website administrators and web hosts.