Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy
nature_man@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Reposting my comment another post relating to this situation
I mean this is just them making official how they’ve been acting for 2 years minimum, as much as google and youtube want to act progressive and inclusive, people still get demonetized for talking about lgbtq or women’s issues, unless they are harassing them, in which case the video will stay up no matter how many of youtube’s rules it breaks. For example, trans NB game critic Stephanie Sterling had multiple harassment videos against them (they listed pronouns as they/them last I checked, please correct if changed) that are still up right now, several years after upload, despite those videos exclusively attacking them for being trans/non-binary, which breaks youtube’s TOS
Companies are not your friend.
FreeBird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Months ago I reported a Nazi.like a real Nazi. With a hitler pfp. And they didn’t van him. This is the channel of the Nazi: youtube.com/channel/UCZijsnbYQawRHi-Z3DwEcTA
nature_man@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Wish I could say I’m surprised, but I’ve had this exact thing happen to me several times. Several times they’ve had slurs in their profile image or banner too.
gabbath@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Just don’t make a video criticizing the nazi using snippets of the nazi’s videos, because that’s when you risk getting taken down for hate speech.
Smaller channels have this happen to them on a regular basis when they criticize bigger channels like, say, Matt Walsh. In that case, it’s because YT likes the bigger channel better for giving more ad revenue. They only ban chuds after they become irrelevant, and that’s only to save face — for example, when they banned Stefan Molyneux he was hardly popular anymore.