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On June 5th, YouTube announced in a post on its official blog that it is going to be:
Removing more hateful and supremacist content from YouTube
by specifically prohibiting videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status.
Finally, we will remove content denying that well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, took place.
Reducing borderline content and raising up authoritative voices
In January, we piloted an update of our systems in the U.S. to limit recommendations of borderline content and harmful misinformation
We're looking to bring this updated system to more countries by the end of 2019. Thanks to this change, the number of views this type of content gets from recommendations has dropped by over 50% in the U.S. Our systems are also getting smarter about what types of videos should get this treatment, and we'll be able to apply it to even more borderline videos moving forward. As we do this, we'll also start raising up more authoritative content in recommendations
Continuing to reward trusted creators and enforce our monetization policies
we are strengthening enforcement of our existing YouTube Partner Program policies. Channels that repeatedly brush up against our hate speech policies will be suspended from the YouTube Partner program, meaning they can't run ads on their channel or use other monetization features like Super Chat.
In an article discussing this, Silicon Valley reporter Casey Newton of The Verge notes that this "is expected to result in the removal of thousands of channels across YouTube."
The crackdown goes into effect today and will "ramp up" over the next few days.
Aristarchus adds from Time:
The video streaming company says it has already made it more difficult to find and promote such videos, but it's now removing them outright. YouTube will also prohibit videos that deny certain proven events have taken place, such as the Holocaust.
The changes come as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other online services face mounting concern that the services allow, and in some cases foster , extremism.
YouTube's new policies will take effect immediately. Specifically, the service is banning videos "alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion." The ban applies to a range of characteristics, including race, sexual orientation and veteran status.
[...] The companies have said they are walking the balance between creating safe spaces while also protecting freedom of expression. With little government oversight on online material, internet companies have become the arbiters for what is and isn't allowed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @03:45AM (1 child)
Imagine if you will a group of people that are so despised that the government must make a law to make it illegal to hate them.
Your dedication to the idea of "protected classes" will be the undoing of your haughtiness. Sooner or later, those you dislike will become protected classes as well not because they are weak or sympathetic, but because the constant vitriolic hate that your "side" vents upon them at every opportunity. Your side's hate and constant persecution under the guise of enlightenment will force its arrival.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @09:46PM
Sadly you don't realize that defending an innocent conservative from bigotry is 100% part of the message. Also, you seem to not realize that your "side" is already protected. You send your worst to college campuses to promote hate and bigotry, you get to protest and yell nasty shit at people going to get medical help, and no one is preventing Christians from practicing or talking about their faith.
So you are already protected, much like we demand EVERYONE be protected. But yer an authoritarian little cunt who sees the slightest pushback as serious persecution on par with a lynching or cross burning in your yard. Preeeety snowflakey there bub.