YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Explains Why Logan Paul Has Not Been Banned Yet

Following the suicide video controversy, YouTube removed Logan Paul from Google's Preferred Ad program and suspended all of his YouTube original projects. And in case you missed it, YouTube as well cutting off his ad revenue citing his recent pattern of behavior.

Now, you might be wondering why not ban him entirely from the platform by removing his channel? Well, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki thinks that Paul doesn't deserve to be kicked off from the platform – not yet at least.

In an interview at Recode's annual Code Media briefing, Wojcicki confirmed that Paul wouldn't be banned from YouTube someday soon. When the host Kara Swisher questioned the motion, Wojcicki said, "He hasn't done anything that would cause those three strikes. We tin't just exist pulling people off our platform… They need to violate a policy."

In instance you're wondering, Wojcicki is referring to YouTube'due south three strikes policy hither, according to which the creators will be terminated from the platform if they get three strikes within a three-month period.

Creators tin become strikes if the videos contain nudity or sexual content, violent or graphic content, harmful or dangerous content, hateful content, threats, spam, misleading metadata, or scams. – YouTube customs guidelines

Wojcicki'southward statement about following YouTube's community guidelines makes a lot of sense. In fact, it is practiced to see that YouTube's decisions are not influenced by public's outrage over the issue. The company was hit a lot of criticism following the controversy and the role it played in hosting the content and pushing it on "Trending" list.

Meanwhile, a popular YouTuber who goes by the proper noun KEEMSTAR, tweeted that ads are still being played on Paul's videos despite the temporary suspension.

Breaking YouTube has restored ads on @LoganPaul! based on our calculations he was banned from ads for 72hrs! pic.twitter.com/pqojcTlc51

— KEEM 🍿 (@KEEMSTAR) Feb 12, 2018

Withal, Youtube team was quick enough to respond back saying that the ban was still in place and they're also aware of the few instances where people however see ads, which volition be removed shortly.