In that Youtube video they only talk about certain countries, but the problem is worldwide. I'm from Europe and have the same problem, as well as a lot of people from the US.
It has to be more in the mainstream media so Bittrex knows their reputation is going south even more if they don't solve these problems quickly.

I asked few prominent figures from cryptoworld to report on this. Maybe more of us should ask. Twitter is a fine source.

I'll play the devil's advocate here.
Even though on a human level I agree with your logic.
1. BitCoin isn't money, not for US company. Neither other tokens.
2. Even if BitCoins were considered as money, they would still require full compliance with KYC/AML. Have you ever been to bank? They always ask same questions. Dealing with money was insanely complicated for ages. Dealing with BTC suppose to be easier, but only until point of "exit" where you have to go back dealing with banks once again.

It would really helped if Bittrex was more transparent on their banking relations and the actual requirements they follow, but I think they won't, simply because all those requirements not written yet so they follow vague recommendations to avoid any possible trouble. That results in ugly collateral damage as we see.

So? That doesn't matter... Not only money can be stolen. Stealing a bitcoin, stealing a car, stealing your shoes is still a stealing...

That doesn't give someone a right to steal, block someone's money. They shouldn't accept money from unverified accounts at all if they have such policy. They have no legal right to block someone's money at all. They can block account, but should return the money.

I agree - stealing is bad.
But true nature of a problem as usual lies in it's definition.

You treat BTC as you would treat money (because in essence that what BTC is). However from the legal standpoint BTC isn't money and can be legally treated vastly different (banks and other entities are bound by law to exchange money for goods and services, and can be prosecuted to do stuff with your money).

In other words you can't do with money things you can do with coins and vice-versa. For example - they (Bittrex) can accept BTC, and then suddenly suspend your account without giving you reason for suspension (they wouldn't be able to do that with money). In this case they are not locking your money, they locking your "THING" and they can, for example, tell you that they have lost your "THING" in a fire and pay you back for it with the amount that thing was worth when you deposited it (That's one terrible scenario I expect to see in this situation). Or they can hold that "THING" because it may fit into some digital goods export limitation to certain countries like Iran. You can't and never should call BitCoin money if you have anything to do with jurisdiction that does not agree with you on that account.

Remember, when you giving some service your BTCs you automatically agree to play the game by their rules, and usually rules are rigged in their favor. I don't really see any viable solution to enforce BTC back from bittrex at this point, I'm 99% positive any lawsuit will fail because of their TOS and legal status of BTC in US.

That's bitter and suck and bad and all. But that's what other countries get when they deal with US nowadays.

Well, I personally don't think that Bittrex is a scam.
Rising of popularity of the cryptocurrencies causes a huge flow of the newcomers.
Based on that we can surely assume that the number of support tickets at Bittrex has increased tremendously over the past few past months.
Even though i am also having a user verification issue - Request #483003, I just think, that they need some time to process all these tickets.
There are many examples of people having theirs tickets solved.
On the other hand, I would expected someone from Bittrex to give an official announcment that they are indeed working on improvents of their support system.

This might also be a trick from the IRS.
It was just on Dutch television that in the USA between 2013 and 2015 only 802 people told the IRS they had crypto but when they started to investigate it there were a lot more people having it.
I don't know how the tax rules are in the US, but in The Netherlands they take the date of 1st jan to see how many money/crypto you posses.
So if that is the same in the US there is a chance it will be available again after the 1st of januari, so you can't remove it before that date.
It also declares why they also want all your personal data. Seems like Bittrex is just a puppet from the IRS.

Time for decentralized exchanges.

%1000 sure it's not only a scam it's the fucking pigs trying to get your PERSONAL INFORMATION i wanna know where these bittrex people live i will go kick some ass<<< #chucknorris

Bittrex has limits on withdrawing for the accounts that are not verified. The limits are so bad that if you are not verified at all you cannot withdraw.
Many have complained about this as an abuse, about the fact that many accounts (with old funds on them) were not validated and so on.
I've had this surprise myself and my basic validation has failed.
However, by enhanced validation went thru and I can withdraw now.

So: verify your account (basic for small amounts, enhanced for large amounts or if basic failed). If it works, you should be fine. If it doesn't work.. oh well, at least you didn't deposit yet.