In February 2008 , a video produced by the American Life League that accused a Planned Parenthood television commercial of promoting recreational sex was removed , then reinstated two days later . In October , a video by political speaker Pat Condell criticizing the British government for officially sanctioning sharia law courts in Britain was removed , then reinstated two days later . YouTube also pulled a video of columnist Michelle Malkin showing violence by Muslim extremists . Siva Vaidhyanathan , a professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia , commented that while , in his opinion , Michelle Malkin disseminates bigotry in her blog , " that does not mean that this particular video is bigoted ; it 's not . But because it 's by Malkin , it 's a target . " In December 2018 , a channel called Mumkey Jones was taken down by YouTube due to receiving three community guidelines strikes because of videos documenting and commenting on Elliot Rodger , the perpetrator of the 2014 Isla Vista killings , being considered hate speech . However , one of the strikes was on a private video with zero views with the title " elliott amv " leading many viewers to believe that YouTube had struck down the channel in an act of censorship
2014 Isla Vista killings
2014 Isla Vista killings
Criticism of Google