YouTube has moved to update their policies preventing YouTubers from using “demeaning” or “insulting” language towards anyone, including private citizens, other YouTubers, celebrities, or even public officials! This means response videos, call-out videos, or even the kind of videos that people like Yellow Flash, TheQuartering, or Tim Pool put out criticizing or deriding the stupidity of a certain sect could fall afoul of YouTube’s new policies, especially after they already started removing videos they claim are in violation of that.
The new policies were rolled out over on the official YouTube blog, where Matt Halprin, the vice president and global head of YouTube’s Trust & Safety division, opened with…
“Over the last several years we have worked to improve the way we manage content on YouTube by quickly removing it when it violates our Community Guidelines, reducing the spread of borderline content, raising up authoritative voices when people are looking for breaking news and information and rewarding trusted creators and artists that make YouTube a special place. Today we are announcing a series of policy and product changes that update how we tackle harassment on YouTube. We systematically review all our policies to make sure the line between what we remove and what we allow is drawn in the right place, and recognized earlier this year that for harassment, there is more we can do to protect our creators and community.
“Harassment hurts our community by making people less inclined to share their opinions and engage with each other. We heard this time and again from creators, including those who met with us during the development of this policy update. We also met with a number of experts who shared their perspective and informed our process, from organizations that study online bullying or advocate on behalf of journalists, to free speech proponents and policy organizations from all sides of the political spectrum.”
Essentially, YouTube listened to pro-censorship journalists and mainstream media in order to further restrict your access and content creation capabilities when it comes to utilizing YouTube as a publishing platform.
But it didn’t stop there. They took these a step further, as reported by Tim Pool on YouTube.
That’s right, YouTube is now cracking down popular YouTube videos they consider to be “demeaning” and/or “insulting”.
This is outlined on the blog, where they wrote…
“Beyond threatening someone, there is also demeaning language that goes too far. To establish a consistent criteria for what type of content is not allowed on YouTube, we’re building upon the framework we use for our hate speech policy. We will no longer allow content that maliciously insults someone based on protected attributes such as their race, gender expression, or sexual orientation. This applies to everyone, from private individuals, to YouTube creators, to public officials.”
This has already been put into effect, immediately.
As pointed out in the video, iDubbzTV had their Leafy video removed, while others saw past videos being scrubbed from the site as well, with YouTube retroactively putting the changes into effect.
So I wake up to YT removing @Gokanaru’s video on H3, along with @Idubbbz’s Leafy Content Cop due to “bullying and harassment” policy changes.
I don’t see how in the FUCK that makes sense when the videos were made BEFORE the changes.
This is some next level bullshit @TeamYouTube pic.twitter.com/gU7ho0MVvF
— j aubrey 🤠 (@jaubreyYT) December 11, 2019
This was actually something that Steven Crowder brought up in his own video, over on Bitchute, before YouTube even implemented their new rules.
As suspected by Crowder, YouTube is retroactively enforcing the rules.
So videos made years ago that were made when YouTube’s rules afforded such content, could now be in violation of these new “harassment” rules, which means that you either have to start deleting old content or prepare to get purged.
This is absolutely not going to end here, and expect more channels to get hit and a lot of content to get removed over the next several weeks.
(Thanks for the news tip Clownfish TV and BitChute)