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[@mdk][@SleepingSilence] If he was part of the conversation that he secretly recorded, he didn't violate US federal or Texas state law. After looking at Twitter and Youtube's policies, I haven't found anything that relates to the specific video you described.
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The [url=https://gizmodo.com/how-conservative-activists-catfished-twitter-1823533394]article I mentioned[/url] was regarding California law (they're a two-party state), and [url=https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+headquarters&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS720US721&oq=youtube+headquarters&aqs=chrome.0.0l6.2336j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8]YouTube is a California company[/url], and I dunno if that matters legally (can California entities sue YouTube over independent content on their platform? I tried to google an answer but the lawsuit alleging censorship is dominating search results). What I'm driving at is, I sorta just applied my daily encounters as the logic for YouTube's decision to pull the video and it made perfect reasonable sense -- even if it's just a "We dunno if this is legal or not, let's take it down while we talk about it." 

Plenty of other explanations (including SINISTEREVIL ones) would also make sense; my explanation felt pretty even-handed though.