We all knew this day would arrive.

A comment under Chris Hansen's recent expository YouTube video, Looking Deeper into Onision with Shiloh, part of his series, Have a Seat with Chris Hansen, caught my attention.  It struck me deeply.  The comment by Sydney Bolduc read, "Funny how the word 'predator' ... is scarier to YouTube than an actual one."  Bolduc impeccably illustrates YouTube's biggest flaw: its censorship of words over actions.

Parallel to how a democracy runs, YouTube should punish actions and not plain words.  Opinions that do not incite violence are just that -- opinions.  And once opinions are banished, democracy dies.  Following this logic, Onision deserved to be punished for his actions a long time ago.  He deserved to be punished when he abused his status as a celebrity in order to censor smaller creators who disagreed with him. 

   As I have stated before, Onision gave false copyright strikes -- which YouTube approved -- to my own channel and many others.  He struck down everybody who mentioned him in a way he deemed negative.  At 16 years old, I had to pursue a legal case against him before he finally allowed my video to remain published.

     Onision also deserved to be punished when he slandered Shane Dawson, when he neglected to dissuade hundreds of underage girls from posting nearly-naked photographs of themselves under his forums, or, most recently, when he manipulated multiple underage girls into a cycle of abuse and grooming.

     Instead, we see YouTube becoming blind to Onision, allowing him to rise to power and enforce opinionated rules onto the rest of the YouTube community.

     The CEO of YouTube has been alerted of his most recent behavior, which includes his predatory behaviors against young girls, and very possibly pedophilia and sexual misconduct.  This is why I will be finalizing this petition in a few days from now.  Something must be done, and soon.