Why even bother with a hate speech policy? Oh, right, money.
YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy
Submitted 5 weeks ago by IndianaJones@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.usermag.co/p/youtube-removes-gender-identity-from
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lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
strange, they have allowed it ont he channel for quite a while, alot of the videos were mostly directed at transpeople in the form of anti-woke videos. like that channel where it had 20 magats arguing vs 1 “liberal”.
right wing drives viewers to grifters, and those have ads which benefits youtube.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Also right wingers are dumb as hell and don’t use adblock.
obvs@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What international alternatives exist for YouTube? And I understand RedNote as an alternative for TikTok, but YouTube fills a little bit of a different niche.
thisfro@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
Peertube is the obvious candidate, but I’m not sold on the content.
I use nebula.tv, many of the creators I like are there too. You pay somerhing, but their business model is not too bad imho.
Floatplane is somewhat similar, but LMG is involved, which I don’t love.
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
The closest, at least outside of China, would be Dailymotion.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
feel like thats specific to pirated media.
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
No one wants to talk about PeerTube?
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
/c/peertube
roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Because the user experience is horrible for non-creators.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There really isn’t one. That’s why they feel that they can do whatever they feel like. They have no real competition for the type of service they offer.
MasterReflection1916@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Look at the latest executive order on “protecting children”. They are planning for eugenics.
cotlovan@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
As i signed up for this sub, I thought I’d be reading about technology. Actually, it seems that people here are more concerned about companies not sticking to the far left ideology, so naturally they call everyone nazis and fascists, without ever knowing what those words even mean.
Just because someone doesn’t want to play the gender tip toe dance, doesn’t mean they’re nazis. But I guess that’s not something that this sub is ready to face.
VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
get fucked bigot
cotlovan@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Your reply and your up votes just prove what I said. You’re not allowed to disagree with the rhetoric around here.
odelik@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Just your garden variety bigots and assholes then?
Also, I think you should read up on what facisim is and why it’s being so widely used right now as highly oppressive rhetoric is being pushed from many far-right leaders throughout the world.
cotlovan@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I know exactly what fascism means, and often what the left is doing aligns better with the definition than what the right is doing. Also, let’s not forget that “nazi” is a short form for “national socialism”
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m with you on the “they’re not Nazi thing”
I think a Lemmy is being a version targeted radicalization for certain groups.
But still I think you’re wrong that we can separate technology from this political stuff right now. It’s not separate. Technology is the medium that groups are using to spread this stuff. It’s important and interesting to see how they’re doing it.
Content should focus on the tech side of it. And also why be angry at the side that’s just trying to protect their freedoms here. If it wasn’t for the people trying to limit their freedoms, we’d never hear of this stuff.
cotlovan@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Sure, you can’t always separate the technology from the politics, my issue was that this is what most posts around here are about. I took a look and most content comes a few accounts, and it’s always about the “nazi this” and “fascist that”. Is that really only thing that happens in the tech space, what Musk said and what YouTube changed in their policy?
redwattlebird@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
Hang on. I just scrolled down the comments list for a couple of minutes and didn’t see anyone calling anyone else a Nazi or a fascist. What are you going on about?
And YouTube is a company. They don’t believe in anything except increasing shareholder value. It’s got nothing about far left or whatever. Gender identity isn’t even a far left idea, unless your Overton window is skewed.
Also, you’ve just sort of outed yourself unnecessarily as an ignorant bigot in a left leaning community with your statement:
Just because someone doesn’t want to play the gender tip toe dance, doesn’t mean they’re nazis
Of course they’re not Nazis. No one’s calling them a Nazi. They’re calling that someone a bigot.
Actually, it seems that people here are more concerned about companies not sticking to the far left ideology
Actually, it’s people who are concerned about companies kowtowing to a fascist regime, the Trump government.
wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
nazis and fascists, without ever knowing what those words even mean
I am Jack’s complete lack of self awareness
UltraMasculine@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Seems like you are getting downvoted, but I agree with you that nowadays people use words like nazi and fascist very loosely. I’m very sure that a large part of the people can’t tell what nazi or fascist really is without looking it on Wikipedia.
suite403@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Seeing as you apparently need someone to look the word up for you.
Fascism : a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition
Let’s see.
- Christian nationalism is a huge part of Trumps support group
- Cops target brown people to attempt to deport them and Trump pardons them for ignoring court orders to stop (Joe Apaio)
- Trump continues to deport people based on skin and looks without due process. Ignoring courts telling him to stop.
- Trumps America first slogan is eerily similar to Hitlers slogan.
- Trump is starting to isolate the US from the rest of the world (but curiously not Russia)
But I do agree, they’re not Nazis, they’re MAGA. Their own brand of fascism.
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Womp womp, get bent and bootlick your Trump in hopes he might acknodlge you for his next grift.
LMurch@thelemmy.club 5 weeks ago
Thanks?
u10ji@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
I’m a little bit confused on this: if you visit the policy page now it does (at least for me, in Europe) still list “Sex, Gender, or Sexual Orientation” as a protected group in that exact same list. Obviously slightly different as they’ve combined a couple of different groups in there where previously they were delineated: plus I wonder if this is potentially showing because I’m in a different region. Would be interested to see what someone in NA sees: support.google.com/youtube/answer/2801939
mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
What about this idea:
Stop staring at internet videos all day and go get a life. Learn Spanish, take up woodworking, volunteer at your local school, walk around the block… do something useful instead of staring at Internet videos, or worse, making internet videos for people to stare at
Soleos@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is an unhelpful and condescending comment. It dismisses the meaningful activities people engage in online as “not life”: self expression, creating art and community, working, socializing, enjoying entertainment, and learning new things. It proposes a false dichotomy wherein not-online is utopic with universally accessible activities and, especially, an absence of the very same people who make online spaces toxic hellholes. They are present in “real spaces” too. These are not mutually exclusive things. You are likely to find that pro-social activists online are often try to be pro-social activists in person as well.
That being said, I agree that people get terminally online and that balancing digital and physical lives are important. Managing attention and mental health are important, especially when content about important and meaningful topics turn into viral and incessant feeds that are geared to overwhelm human brains that weren’t evolved to handle such constant cognitive/emotional stress.
Take care out there folks.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Hey. I’m learning Spanish, I’m a volunteer, and I run and cycle on the regular!
Somehow, that doesn’t stop you sounding like a bigot though…
iridebikes@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
No thanks.
desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
What else am I going to do when I’m stuck in an office 10 hours every day?
Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I would appreciate it if we could just get rid of this dumbass “hate speech” rule.
AnjunaSouls@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I would appreciate it if we could get rid of this dumbass. ^
Petter1@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
🤬
Cantaloupe877@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
On the one hand, less censorship, on the other, something a lot worse.
lumony@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
Good.
Let people say what they want and you can ignore them if you don’t like what’s being said.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
BASED
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
I recommend you take strides to learn how propaganda works, most specifically the purpose of shifting opinion (i.e. the Overton Window): “I’m just asking questions” and “I’ll let anyone speak” are two of the most effective methods of propaganda.
lumony@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
Your problem is that you want to censor ideas you don’t like.
You want to control what other people think by dictating what they get to see and what they’re allowed to share with others.
You are going to grasp at whatever straw you can to get rid of people saying things you don’t like.