YouTube updates guidelines to ban videos that promote the superiority of any group to justify discrimination, resulting in the removal of thousands of channels
even when it's documentary footage https://twitter.com/... Tim O'Brien / @timobrien : YouTube just banned supremacist content, and thousands of channels are about to be removed. Why isn't Facebook doing this? https://www.theverge.com/... via @Verge Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : So YouTube TODAY decided to ban videos that praise Nazis and deny the Holocaust and Sandy Hook. They let those videos on their platform until now, you ask? YEP. Meanwhile, you should read @gaywonk to see what is really going on on YouTube. https://www.cnn.com/... Kevin Roose / @kevinroose : @gaywonk Unlike FB's takedowns a few weeks ago, YouTube declined to share examples of high-profile creators whose channels would be banned under the new hate speech policy. So this may affect lesser-watched accounts, moreso than the million-plus subscriber channels. Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : Good to see YouTube taking a stand against “borderline content” without defining what borderline content actually is. Strong policy!https://youtube.googleblog.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Tim Stevens / @tim_stevens : Feeling a little better about humanity this morning. Of about Google/YouTube, anyway. Kudos to all who had a hand in pushing to make this happen. https://twitter.com/... Kevin Roose / @kevinroose : Importantly, YouTube is also changing its recommendation engine to display “authoritative sources” more prominently in more cases, such as when a user has watched a bunch of conspiracy theory videos in a row. Kevin Roose / @kevinroose : @gaywonk More details: YouTube's new policies will prohibit neo-Nazi videos, crisis actor stuff, and “videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion.” Changes are expected to hit thousands of channels and tens of thousands of videos. Ina Fried / @inafried : But, no, @youtube says these changes still wouldn't result in a different result to its investigation of Steven Crowder's harassment of @gaywonk https://twitter.com/... @slpng_giants : .@TeamYouTube is clearly trying to pull themselves out of the hole they put themselves in yesterday, but this is a good move nonetheless. https://twitter.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : What a day for YouTube to announce that it is banning supremacist channels in an unsigned blog post! https://www.theverge.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : One notable thing here is that YouTube now considers survivors of mass tragedies, such as Sandy Hook and 9/11, a protected class. So videos denying that those events took place are now prohibited Casey Newton / @caseynewton : This is an important step, and will have some positive effects. It's unrelated to the ongoing controversy over harassment, though. https://twitter.com/... Carlos Maza / @gaywonk : To be crystal clear: @YouTube has decided that targeted racist and homophobic harassment does not violate its policies against hate speech or harassment. That's an absolutely batshit policy that gives bigots free license. See also Mediagazer