YouTube briefly terminated the Dalit Camera account in January 2017 . The channel 's page carried a notice that this was due to concerns about copyright infringement , although Ravichandran claimed that " YouTube has never welcomed depiction of content related to Dalit issues . A lot of explicit content is usually uploaded by YouTube but the site has a distaste for videos depicting Dalit and minority issues . " There was some speculation that YouTube might have bowed to pressure from Hyderabad Police following the conviction for defamation in December 2016 of some EFLU research scholars who had been featured on the channel . The channel had covered reaction to work posted by Rohith Vemula and his death
Rohith Vemula
Suicide of Rohith Vemula
Dalit Camera