Bandcamp had already at least couple of "ban waves". At some point huge amount of obscene goregrind was banned. If you got vulgar song titles and obscene art, that was removed. Of course, there is fine line what is "real music" and what is just joke, and one could assume bc as company felt like we do not want to host this type of stuff what could get us in trouble.
A bit later there was purge in black metal. Relatively big bands would get get their pages deleted. Clandestine Blaze used to have site, but I had already removed everything else but (then) latest album, and it was free download. It was deleted before actual purges begin. A bit later Satanic Warmaster had everything removed. Then followed way way bigger and more popular names like Deathspell Omega, Funeral Mist, Destroyer666, etc... and even full label sites removed. Nobody would get any explanation what the "violation of terms" has been. Company would refuse to give any reason. For anyone who doesn't rely on them, no problem. Some others, who used it as source of income and suddenly kicked out with no explanation, it gives quite different view of how things work with bc. It's not like you would expect freedom to post whatever garbage or offenses, but if you can't trust platform due fact it could be just ruined by bunch of malicious anonymous reports, would it be very wise to start to build record label business on it? Already now I am quite surprised some of the veterans of harsh noise post so explicit material on it, since one would expect it just matter of time entire sites get taken down.
Of course other platforms may not be hugely better. Like mentioned in other topic, Jukka Siikala has his entire youtube account deleted, so did Infinity Land Press (Martin Bladh & Karolina Urbaniak). Both no warning, not just deleting supposedly offensive video. Just channel taken down, and "ban for life" type of message from youtube. Reason "violation of terms".
