Defrauded investors BitConnect accused YouTube's refusal to remove a promotional video of the pyramid
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In January, the six depositors in coin BitConnect accused her of developers to create a financial pyramid and trade unregistered securities. Now the law firm Miller Silver, which represents the interests of investors, attracted to the trial of YouTube as a third party. This writes the
theCase BitConnect. New details
representatives of the plaintiff accused the streaming service of inaction in relation to commercials BitConnect who "pose a danger" to potential investors in the cryptocurrency. Silver Miller argue that YouTube is still not deleted the videos, and behaved "irresponsibly".
the lawsuit alleges that BitConnect has uploaded to YouTube more than 70 thousand hours of video, in total the videos have garnered over 58 million views. In this case the plaintiff claims that many users requested to remove the video after closing at the request of the American authorities, however, ignored the demands.
YouTube is responsible for the fact that the service took no action to protect users. Moreover, the representatives of YouTube said repeatedly that this is the main function to be performed by an advertising algorithm.
the company has yet to respond to the charges. It should be noted that YouTube is one of the few major services, which are not banned is ICO and cryptocurrency. Perhaps, after accusations from Silver Miller broadcasts will reconsider its position on this issue.
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