The sudden interruption of Nako’s “Selected Classical Music Channel” raises a serious issue for YouTube.
Classical music commentary is an important cultural and educational activity, not merely online entertainment.
YouTube must operate with greater care so that valuable programs devoted to music, criticism, education, and cultural transmission are not stopped by automatic judgment, insufficient verification, or dubious reporting.

Yesterday, a highly disturbing incident occurred on Nako’s “Selected Classical Music Channel.”
A wonderful classical music commentary program that had started early in the morning was reportedly interrupted by YouTube’s judgment.
I happened to be awake and working at that hour, so I knew that the program had begun early in the morning.
However, I later learned that the program had been mistakenly stopped by YouTube, and that she had made a revenge rebroadcast late at night.
This is not a matter that can be overlooked.
A classical music commentary program is not mere entertainment.
It is an extremely important cultural act that transmits musical culture to the next generation.
Programs that carefully convey performers, composers, works, historical background, and how to listen to music should rather be among the most important contents on a platform such as YouTube.
If such a program is interrupted by mechanical judgment, or by report processing based on insufficient confirmation, then it is not merely a problem of one channel.
It can become an obstruction to culture itself.
Of course, copyright protection is important.
However, if culturally valuable commentary, criticism, and educational programs are also stopped uniformly under the name of copyright protection, that is putting the cart before the horse.
I ask YouTube to operate with greater care so that culturally valuable classical music commentary programs will not be interrupted by mechanical or insufficient judgment.
Especially in a field such as classical music, where performance, recording, commentary, quotation, and educational introduction are intricately connected, it should not be handled by simple automatic judgment alone.
Programs such as Nako’s, which sincerely convey the appeal of classical music, are precious assets for Japanese musical culture.
Is it not precisely the environment in which such programs can continue to broadcast with peace of mind that YouTube should protect?
Regarding this incident, I strongly ask YouTube to improve its operation so that erroneous judgments and unjustified suspensions of culturally valuable classical music commentary programs will not be repeated.