🔹 **账号恢复窗口期**：YouTube为因涉及COVID-19和选举的政治言论而被封禁的创作者提供了一个限时恢复账号的机会。创作者必须在11月9日（周日）前完成申诉流程，以恢复被封禁的账号及其原有的观众和内容。错过此期限，账号虽可重返平台，但将失去原有的订阅者和页面。

✅ **政策调整与承诺**：此次账号恢复是谷歌（YouTube母公司）在9月向国会做出的承诺的一部分。此前，多家科技公司因压制被政府视为不实或政治上不利的内容而受到共和党议员的审查。谷歌承诺将放宽言论政策，并允许那些因传播疫情和2020年大选相关不实信息而被封禁的账号回归。

📈 **影响范围与案例**：据了解，此项恢复政策可能影响数千名YouTube用户。例如，前FBI副局长丹·邦吉诺（Dan Bongino）已成功通过申诉流程恢复了其YouTube账号，并保留了其80万以上的订阅者和原有内容。此举表明YouTube在内容审核政策上正进行调整，以平衡言论自由和平台管理。

⚖️ **平衡言论与平台责任**：此次调整显示了YouTube在处理政治敏感内容和创作者账号管理上的新考量。在面临国会压力和公众对言论自由的关注下，平台正尝试在内容审查和用户权益之间寻找新的平衡点，尤其是在涉及公共卫生和选举等重要议题时。

FIRST ON FOX: YouTube is giving creators who were banned for certain types of political speech a chance to reinstate their accounts on the video-sharing platform and retain their former audiences, but they must act before Sunday, otherwise they will need to start from scratch.

YouTube users must go through an appeals process by Nov. 9 to restore former accounts banned over content related to COVID-19 and elections, two sources familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital.

The sources said YouTube will still allow the users back on the platform after that date but that their former page and subscribers will not be restored at that point.

GOOGLE TO REINSTATE BANNED YOUTUBE ACCOUNTS CENSORED FOR POLITICAL SPEECH

The revelation that accounts can maintain their past subscribers, albeit for a short window, comes as part of a string of commitments that Google, YouTube's parent company, made to Congress in September.

The big tech giant vowed in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee to lift the account bans on those who spread perceived misinformation and disinformation about the pandemic and the 2020 election, citing that it valued free expression and had relaxed its speech policies in the last couple of years.

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Google was among multiple big tech companies that came under intense scrutiny from congressional Republicans for acquiescing to Biden administration demands to suppress content in 2020 that the government viewed as faulty or politically unfavorable.

Among those booted from its YouTube platform for now-defunct censorship practices were regular users with small followings and more well-known accounts like those of now-FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and White House counterterrorism chief Sebastian Gorka.

Bongino has since taken YouTube up on its offer and reinstated his accounts through the appeals process, one of the sources told Fox News Digital. Bongino has retained his old content and more than 800,000 subscribers, according to one of his YouTube pages.

Google conveyed to congressional aides that the reinstatement offer could affect thousands of YouTube users, according to another source.

Fox News Digital reached out to Google for comment.