YouTube has sent out an updated Terms of Service, concerning many users of the tech giant earlier this morning will go into effect from 10th December onwards. This has stirred the anticipation of users all over the world as YouTube stands as one of the most significant digital platforms out there regarding the consequences this change might bring along. The previous news relevant to the current situation had many users wanting Google to nationalize into a utility.

In a nutshell regarding past events, a particular YouTube personality or streamer took the center stage of things upon asking his users to release spam on the services provided by YouTube. Right after this, YouTube did not wait any further and went ahead and deactivated those users’ collective Google accounts. This meant they no longer had access to their emails, Google Drive, calendars, Google Docs or upload any videos on their YouTube channels. Users reverted with hefty complain where they stated that they got into legal debacles upon not being able to use log in passwords while some complained that this decision led to problems in school upon not being able to send out emails to their professors and teachers. Every credentials and account details along with uploads were taken down for hundreds of users just because of a standard streaming chat tradition.

What is most interesting here is that this cleanup was done only to Markiplier’s channel and its users so far. Some personally tested this out by spamming emotes in a fake account on the video-sharing platform but the account remained intact. The spamming included a 100 emotes through fifteen different messages within a time bracket of about 10 minutes. However, the fake account which was linked to a VPN was still in its active state.

This irregularity on YouTube’s part sparked many questions while YouTube sent out a brief email to its users regarding the ‘small changes’ that are about to be implemented in their terms of service points. The changes are so intricate that one has to read between lines to make sensible meaning out of it. All in all, these changes only put YouTube’s position as the largest and most-favorite video streaming platform in jeopardy in the years to come.

YouTube now holds that the right to terminate user access or the entire Google account if the new changes are to be believed and the provisions included in their service list will no longer includes commercial viability.

So to put things in simpler words, if YouTube does not see the prospects of financial profit through your account, they hold the discretion of deleting uploads on the platform without sending out any warning note. Although the new terms of service apply to YouTube’s user trajectory, your actions misfitting YouTube’s conditions might lead to the permanent alteration of your entire Google account.

In the frenzy of confused notions and assumptions led on by YouTube, the most dreaded scenario would be lose everything of your Google account, or in other words, your life without any prior notification from them. Although Google Drive stores the back-up of all your data connected to your Google account, everything can be gone in a second. Your calendar that stores the dates to your school schedules, important events, birthdays, anniversaries might be deleted just like that even before the news gets delivered to you. On the other hand, Google documents are extensively used by students, both children and adults for school purposes; something which is far more organized and user-friendly in comparison to Microsoft’s memo mass will no longer function with this redundant setback.

The empirical data collected over time when coupled with this situation welcomed by YouTube makes sense in retrospect of Google’s gender biases in recruitments resulted in millions of dollars in the past sums up Youtube’s discretion on user policies because big conglomerates always like to stay away from negative judgments. Emoting multiple times and the implications it might welcome comes as a warning bell for all entities across the internet.

Now we sit here and scratch our brains about what exactly happened to Google’s moral and ethical motto ‘do no evil’.