YOUTUBE NOTIFICATION ABOUT INAPPROPRIATENESS: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!

Last week I received an email from You Tube saying that they had removed a video from my Playlist as they deemed it "inappropriate".

Uh-h-h-h...? Excuse me? What are you talking about?!!!

The following screenshot is the letter about the offending video.  

 

The offending video apparently is a film of the book 'Riddle of the Sands' which, as Wikipedia states:

"The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book ... is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential in the genre of spy fiction. It has been made into feature-length films for both cinema and television."

It is about a man's adventure in a sailing boat off the Frisian Islands (coast between The Netherlands and Germany). I must have looked some part of it some years ago and saved it to my computer.  There are a dozen or so film versions of it on Youtube.  I don't even know which video it was as it is no longer there.
 

Not even knowing what a playlist was and not realizing this video was on it (along with Beethoven and Bach videos) I did my best to over-ride rising panic and got on to Google to figure this out. 

Whose criteria operates here? I can tell from the email that it comes from USA as it begins with "Hi....".  I have learned that spam emails always begin this way so I simply decided it was spurious and didn't touch it. I did not delete it either as I wanted to keep the email for reference.

A couple of days later I got a second email ... actually 3 emails, i.e. same one triplicated.

They thanked me for appealing against the decision  ... I had not .... stating that "after further review, we have determined that your Playlist doesn't violate our Community Guidelines."

I am still none the wiser.

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It reminds me of an image I had taken down off this blog in a post of November 21, 2013.  It was the symbol which was used by a right wing German movement lead by a man whose name begins with H.  I posted a photo of a Rudyard Kipling book and this symbol was embossed in gold on the front.  It is a sacred Hindu symbol in the form of a rotationaly symmetrical arrangement (a cross) with four equally spaced legs of identical length each bent at 90 degrees in a uniform direction to create a pattern akin to a four-armed spiral.

It is still there with all of the images removed.   Doing a search on this site using word 'Kipling' brings it up as well as '4 legged symbol' word.

M-m-m-m .... interesting.  It is almost exactly the same time of year that these events occurred.