Report YouTube Censorship

Was your channel terminated, a video taken down or your monetization pulled with no real explanation? Answer a few questions and this page drafts a complaint from the facts of your case, then tells you which lawmakers and regulators to send it to and how. It covers the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.

It's free. Nothing you type is saved on our servers: your draft stays in this browser, and you send every message yourself. If you live in the US, the UK or Canada, your address or postcode is passed to a public lookup service to find your representatives, and isn't kept.

We assume you've already appealed to YouTube. This page is about the next step: political and regulatory pressure.

Why go to the government? YouTube handles millions of enforcement decisions and rarely explains one to the creator. It does answer lawmakers and regulators, and they can see patterns that a single creator can't. Every documented complaint helps them decide where to look.

Who to contact, country by country

The wizard above picks the right offices for your case and drafts each message. Here is the full list, if you'd rather do it by hand.

United States

  • Your U.S. representative and your two senators. They're the offices that act on messages from you, and they can write to Google and ask questions on your behalf. Find them at house.gov and senate.gov, or call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121. House forms only accept messages from people in the member's district.
  • Committees. Committee chairs' own contact forms reject people from outside their district, so ask your members to raise your case. You can also mail a letter or call:
    • House Energy and Commerce Committee: Oversees consumer protection and tech platforms; the House TERMS Act was sent here. 2125 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515, (202) 225-3641.
    • House Judiciary Committee: Has investigated government pressure on platforms, including a 2025 subpoena to Alphabet. 2138 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515, (202) 225-6906.
    • House Financial Services Committee: Its Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and AI Subcommittee covers crypto policy. 2129 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515, (202) 225-7502.
    • Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee: Handles both the TERMS Act and the JAWBONE Act, and oversees consumer protection and tech platforms. 554 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510, (202) 224-1251 (majority), (202) 224-0411 (minority).
    • Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution: Held the March 2025 hearing on government pressure on platforms' speech decisions. 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510, (202) 224-5225.
    • Senate Banking Committee: Its Digital Assets Subcommittee covers crypto policy. 534 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510, (202) 224-7391.
  • Bills. The TERMS Act (S. 2010 and H.R. 3875) would require platforms to tell people the specific reason and how to appeal before suspending or terminating an account. It doesn't cover demonetization. The JAWBONE Act (S. 4749) would let Americans sue federal officials who coerce platforms into removing lawful speech; the Senate Commerce Committee approved it 18-10 in September 2026. Bills that haven't passed by January 3, 2027 have to be introduced again in the new Congress.
  • Federal Trade Commission (1-877-382-4357). The FTC uses reports to choose what to investigate; it doesn't resolve individual cases. In August 2026 it was reported to be preparing a possible case over how YouTube suspends accounts and applies its policies. Nothing has been filed. For a competition concern, use the FTC's antitrust complaint form.
  • Your state attorney general. State attorneys general enforce consumer-protection laws. They won't settle your dispute with YouTube, but they use complaints to spot patterns. See the USA.gov directory of state consumer offices.
  • If you have evidence a federal agency was involved, that agency's inspector general (find it on Oversight.gov), and mention it to your members of Congress.

European Union

The EU's Digital Services Act puts legal duties on YouTube that US law doesn't. It must send a statement of reasons that includes "the facts and circumstances relied on", and complaints against its decisions can't be decided "solely on the basis of automated means". National regulators enforce those duties, so a complaint to them carries legal weight.

United Kingdom

  • Your MP. Your MP can write to Google for you and raise the case with ministers and Ofcom. Find and write to your MP. MPs act for people in their own constituency. Parliament's committees don't take up individual cases, so ask your MP to raise it with them.
  • Ofcom (online safety regulator). Ofcom regulates platforms like YouTube under the Online Safety Act and uses complaints to decide whether to act. It says it can't respond to or investigate individual complaints. It can't get a channel restored. The Act's duties on the largest services to apply their terms of service consistently are still being finalised (expected by mid-2027).
  • Competition and Markets Authority. The CMA enforces competition law and, since April 2025, consumer law directly. Its 2025 'strategic market status' designation of Google covers search, not YouTube.
  • Citizens Advice consumer service (Trading Standards). Reports to Citizens Advice's consumer service are passed to Trading Standards, who look for patterns in business practices.
  • UK Parliament petition (optional). Petitions are open for six months. At 10,000 signatures the government responds; at 100,000 the Petitions Committee considers a debate. A petition must ask the government or Parliament for a clear action.

Canada

  • Your MP. Your MP can write to Google for you and raise the case with ministers and committees. Find your MP. Senators are appointed for each province and territory, and any of yours can take this up. Senators of Canada. Canada has no law giving creators a right to notice or appeal when a platform removes their account, so lawmakers are the main route.
  • Competition Bureau Canada. Investigates abuse of dominance and misleading business practices. It says it can't act on your behalf to settle a dispute.
  • House of Commons e-petition (optional). An e-petition needs an MP to sponsor it and 500 signatures to be presented; the government then has to respond.

Australia

What governments can and can't do

  • No government office can order YouTube to restore a channel just because you ask. In the US, the First Amendment limits the government, not private companies. In Moody v. NetChoice (2024), the Supreme Court treated a platform's choices about what to host as protected editorial activity.
  • Lawmakers can ask questions Google has to take seriously. They can write letters, hold hearings, issue subpoenas and pass laws on notice, appeals and transparency. In 2025 Alphabet told the House Judiciary Committee that the previous administration had pressed it about COVID-19 content, and it offered terminated creators a way back.
  • Regulators use complaints to pick their cases. The FTC, state attorneys general and their counterparts abroad rarely act on one complaint, but a pile of well-documented ones shows a pattern.
  • Government pressure on a platform is different. If a government body pushed YouTube to remove lawful speech, that can raise a constitutional problem in the US, and the drafts will say so, but only if you have evidence.
  • In the EU, YouTube has legal duties to give specific reasons and to have complaints reviewed by people, and national regulators enforce them.

Questions

What can I do if YouTube terminated my channel and the appeal failed?

Take it to the people who can ask Google questions it won't answer for a creator: your own lawmakers and the regulators in your country. In the EU, national regulators enforce the Digital Services Act's rules on statements of reasons and complaint handling. The wizard on this page drafts each message from the facts of your case.

Do I need to have appealed to YouTube first?

This page assumes you have. Offices usually ask whether you used YouTube's own process, and what happened to your appeal goes into your messages.

Can Congress make YouTube restore my channel?

No. Lawmakers can't order a private company to restore a channel, but they can write to Google, hold hearings and pass laws on notice and appeals, which gets Google's attention in a way a single creator's appeal rarely does.

Is this a First Amendment violation?

Usually not, unless a government was involved. YouTube is a private company. The stronger complaint is about due process: you got no specific reason, no warning and no real appeal. That argument works with offices of both parties.

I only watch the channel. Can I still complain?

Yes. Choose "I watch it" in the first step. The drafts will say you're a viewer and attribute what YouTube told the channel to the creator.

What do you do with my information?

Nothing. Your answers are saved only in your own browser so you don't lose them, and "Clear my answers" deletes them. In the US, the UK and Canada, your address or postcode is sent to a public lookup service to find your representatives (the U.S. Census Bureau's geocoder, the UK Parliament's members service, or Open North's Represent service) and isn't stored by us. You send every message yourself; we never see them.

Is Ezvid Wiki connected to YouTube or to any government?

No. Ezvid Wiki is an independent site published by Ezvid, Inc. This page isn't legal advice. If a lot of money is at stake, talk to a lawyer.

Recipient details last checked October 22, 2026. Spotted something out of date? Email [email protected] (see our contact page).