Over the past few years, YouTube has been harshly criticized for failing to censor violent or harassing content, while simultaneously allowing racist, misogynistic, or conspiracy theory-promoting content to thrive on the platform. And while the platform has since taken a few steps to correct this, banning those peddling harmful autism “cures” and conspiracy theorists of various stripes, many are arguing that the platform took a giant step in the wrong direction when it announced that it would not be taking action against a right-wing vlogger accused of harassing a gay journalist.
- 6/5/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
YouTube took to Twitter at the end of Pride Month to apologize to its Lgbtq creators for hosting offensive ads and how it’s “enforcing [its] monetization policy.”
The tweets, published on June 30, start with YouTube noting that it is “proud of the incredible Lgbtq voices on our platform” before going on to add, “We’ve also had issues where we let the Lgbtq community down.”
These “issues” include anti-lgbtq advertisements that have appeared repeatedly on the video platform. YouTube creators like singer Shannon Taylor tweeted to the company back in May to ask for those ads’ removal, which it finally said it did on June 8 in a tweet responding to creator Elijah Daniel.
Around this same time, Lgbtq creators also called out YouTube for demonetizing videos that included words like “trans” or “transgender” in the title. Trans YouTube creator Chase Ross blatantly illustrated this in a May 30 tweet showing how...
The tweets, published on June 30, start with YouTube noting that it is “proud of the incredible Lgbtq voices on our platform” before going on to add, “We’ve also had issues where we let the Lgbtq community down.”
These “issues” include anti-lgbtq advertisements that have appeared repeatedly on the video platform. YouTube creators like singer Shannon Taylor tweeted to the company back in May to ask for those ads’ removal, which it finally said it did on June 8 in a tweet responding to creator Elijah Daniel.
Around this same time, Lgbtq creators also called out YouTube for demonetizing videos that included words like “trans” or “transgender” in the title. Trans YouTube creator Chase Ross blatantly illustrated this in a May 30 tweet showing how...
- 7/2/2018
- by Jessica Klein
- Tubefilter.com
June 1 marks the start of Pride Month, which in previous years has come with a flurry of pro-lgbtq+ activity from YouTube. As the 2018 edition of the annual celebration rolls around, however, at least one queer creator is upset with a YouTube over a restriction that seems to be targeting his identity. Chase Ross, whose content often discusses his experience as a transgender man, shared a series of screenshots that show his videos being demonetized for using the words "trans" and "transgender."
Ross, whose videos have earned him more than 145,000 subscribers, posted the offending screenshots on Twitter. In one video, he included the word "transgender" in the title, only to have it demonetized "right away." When he posted the same video without the word "transgender" in the title, it remained open for ads. That phenomenon is consistent with what Ross has previously experienced. In October 2017, he saw that his videos became...
Ross, whose videos have earned him more than 145,000 subscribers, posted the offending screenshots on Twitter. In one video, he included the word "transgender" in the title, only to have it demonetized "right away." When he posted the same video without the word "transgender" in the title, it remained open for ads. That phenomenon is consistent with what Ross has previously experienced. In October 2017, he saw that his videos became...
- 6/1/2018
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
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