SCOOP: YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy. "YouTube quietly removing ‘gender identity and expression’ from its list of protected groups is a major radical shift away from best practices in the field of trust and safety."
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YouTube has always been pro nazi so this doesn’t surprise me, they outright ban channels for LGBTQ content and allow in borderline snuff to go unhindered. YouTube is dogshit and there needs to be a serious alternative.
I think the next best thing is Nebula. The subscription model makes it less accessible but it does long form content better than youtube with much better compensation for creators.
They also allow so many fake animal "rescue" channels where the person filming is the one harming them. Straight up monkey abuse videos run rampant. YouTube literally profits off the torture and abuse of animals and does nothing when reported. Google and YouTube are horrible companies.
Under the list of examples of hate speech provided on YouTube’s policy site, the line “[Protected group status] is just a form of mental illness that needs to be cured,” was also removed.
Just a few weeks ago, the governor of Iowa specifically removed “gender identity” from the state's anti-discrimination protections, becoming the first state to make such a change.
Youtube claims that “gender identity and expression” are covered under “sex and gender”, but this is not articulated in ANY public facing policy. “Gender identity and expression” is also not the same thing as “sex and gender”.
Lost cause. Kids today r overwhelmingly androgynous. They don't care what other generations think about gender. They're the consumers now and companies obey. Ric Flair said it best..."whether you like it or you don't like it, learn to LOVE IT, because it's the best thing going today..WOOOOOOOOO!"
Considering how much alt-right stuff they allow on the platform, and how the love funneling Pranger U, Canyon College, and other right-wing for-profit grifts, I'd say the "policy" has always been pretend. Youtube has never been pro-LGBTQ, ever.
Yup. Those policies were only ever there to appeal to the public so they can get as many users as possible. Now that the wind has changed, they're following the money. None of this shit means anything to them.
Personally, I think Youtube is one of our biggest problems/misinformation nexus points
I've only recently started using it a lot (I'm old) & I am shocked at how much Trump Right wing Maga garbage it's pushing my way. There is 0% chance that's algorithmic, I'm the last person on earth for that shit
Corporate owned walled gardens in general. There are no options to view video content except YouTube, which means that a group of anonymous people sitting in California siege get to decide the content shown to anyone anywhere in the world
Bully the bigots back. And once they’re cowed get the corporations back on side. This backsliding is a result of corporate fear. We need to show them who they should really be scared of: the people who pay their bills.
Not like Youtube ever stood by it anyways. The number of people I've seen have their monetization pulled for making LGBTQ videos is insane. Youtube never cared.
Big Tech are just a bunch of cowards kissing this fascist regime’s ring (or ass) in fear of retribution of a 78 old white racist demented convicted felon that bankrupt 6 times but somehow scares the sh*t out of everyone could bring.
On the heels of Trump burning all of his political capital within mere months of being back in office and once again reaffirming the title of the most hated US President. It doesn't make sense and YouTube will suffer for this.
Bad day for my fellow cis. I didn’t wanna do it, but YT said I could, so time to start teeing off, ig
And the reason idgaf as a cis person bashing cis people is bc gender is all drag. You’re a human being that throws on clothes and says it’s gendered. Whoopdeedoo for you.
“Men” want to go back to the “old ways” but don’t want to wear wigs, makeup, and stockings. Why? Bc it’s fake. It’s fashion.
And the idea that we organize our lives and societies around the metaphorical clothes people wear is so stupid, all you can do is laugh to keep from crying at the stupidity.
So if we’re gonna do stupid shit, let’s not save it for just the trans and non-binary folk, let’s spread the stupid shit around so no one gets left out!
I mean, after all, just going after trans and NB folk would be DEI and that’s bad so everyone gets gone after.
We all need to register as tax exempt religious organizations. That way, it's a matter of deeply held religion, which are the only truly protected class in America.
ugh, I knew it would come to this eventually. I've given up Amazon and FB (as much as possible, but for a handful of community groups I follow), rarely use Instagram, ditched Twitter ages ago. But I don't know if I can give up following my YouTube watercolour and art sketching channels. :(
Because this worked so well for Facebook, where now every even slightly trans or LGBT-adjacent post inevitably gets dozens to hundreds of vitriolic comments that, spoken face-to-face, would get you forcibly escorted from the premises if not arrested...
If youtube can’t protect from hate speech against people like me and is now allowing it, I am sure i can figure out AdBlock alternatives easily and take my money elsewhere.
Unfortunately it looks like that app may only support short form content. Most of my content, especially these days, is between 10 minutes and an hour long. (Either way, a bit too long for that platform.)
you can install adblock on your router!! if yours lacks the capability, you can use Tomato on a Raspberry Pi to run the adblocking for you. works REALLY well!
im curious about this specifically for roku. like i wonder if it would be normal about having ad domains blocked, or if it would just stop working properly. hopefully itd be fine.
The WHO quote in that article makes me highly suspicious of the WHO's opinions on the difference between sex and gender, based on how it claims that both are "categorically different from 'gender identity.'"
Someone mentioned nebula. There's also DailyMotion and there's also an activitypub competitor. What we really need is to separate comment ownership from content viewing. I.e allow platforms that integrate content from different providers
I’ve used Gmail since it first came out and have like, fifteen years of stuff on Gdrive. I’ve wanted to extricate myself but have felt daunted by it. I’m thinking it’s “Fuck it we ball” time.
Thank you! I’ll check those out. My biggest problem is that I’m like, the only tall girl on the planet without a computer science degree, so something has to both be fairly idiot proof and have a pleasant UI/UX for me to actually use it.
Mulvad mercifully offers instructions on how to use their services, Tuta is a pretty straight-forward email client.
The nice thing about Mulvad VPN is that it neither has awareness of your identity and it can foil AI attempts to ID you based on your network usage trends.
right wing propaganda youtube channel videos are offered to us like they said illegal drugs would be- endlessly, relentlessly, and with total disregard for the effect it would have on society.
2016 was wild when misinformation and copyright issues became big. YouTube had been dogpiled by the media to fix their moderation (even pulling their ads off) and they actually listened. Now, they chose to drop the curtain and roll back everything.
Use another YouTube front end or a browser that blocks ads, so YouTube gets zero revenue from ads. If you like a creator, even sending them $5 once will give them way more money than they lose if you block ads on their channel
The whole crux is to force someone with this "disability" into mental institutions because we are unfit for public life. It's to force someone to conversion therapy
I could be wrong, but I think he was responding to a post above that said they have also removed hate speech protection against people, saying, "[protected staus] is really just a mental illness." Following their logic, saying any identity is "just a mental illness" should make it protected.
Of course it isn't.. That's just an example of the total hypocrisy of YouTube "enforcement"... The only thing they take seriously is if someone claims to be a copyright holder of a song played by a dishwasher chime in the background on a YouTube video... Then watch how quickly they enforce TOS
More than that, as a creator you can't even join unless you know somebody on the inside with enough clout to get you in. And you have to make a specific kind of content as well.
But to do that you need scalable on-demand cloud storage, hosting and functionality at enterprise scale and that means Amazon, which brings us back to where we started.
Vile! Shame on Google! We need EU Orgs to step up, so we can replace American companies that are going really vile! Not sure if @joinpeertube.org is EU based. We need alternatives, so we can vote with our feet.
Awesome. Thanks so much! Everyone should @joinpeertube.org! Let's create a better internet, not bullied by vile companies who won't stand up against hate speech!
They might opt not to do that this year. A lot of these companies are also scaling back their pride participation. Their presence at pride was always performative in shallow but it's concerning they no longer consider it a virtue worth signaling. The ultimate fair weather friends.
it used to be far worse. I'm afraid people aren't remembering how bad it can be. Facebook has always been pro-nazi, but when they lifted nilominal hate speech rules a couple months ago, it became impossible for me to use. There's a qualitative difference and its not going to just be more of the same
Youtube continues to be a significant recruiting ground for the trans/sissy movement. Hopefully this will allow more dissent from this harmful ideology.
This shit needs to end. Why are people cowering to a fat moron that will be dead in 3 years? None of his "Executive Orders" are laws. They will be wiped away like the shit stain he is.
So why then? NEVER assume a billionaire (or billion dollar corporations) give a flying fuck about you.
newpipe is an alternative only in that it can connect to non youtube sources, thw big thing is creators need to be able to put themselves out there on other platforms as their primary platform and still be relevant and successful.
Every once in a while youtube manages to detect ublock and force you to watch ads, so I just stop watching youtube for a day or two till ublock gets around it once again. Just as almost all my favorite content creators don't get a dime from youtube, youtube ain't getting a dime from me!
Youtube actually loads the data it needs to run the video player first, and it loads the "remove your adblocker" part of the page afterwards, so if you refresh the page then hit "stop loading this page" a couple moments in, you can watch the video.
The timing window is a little small, and it'll depend on your ISP, but once you get the hang of it, it's fairly reliable, and you can just keep refreshing until you get it... but it's handy if you really want to watch a video during those hours where UBo is updating its filters.
I just downloaded New Pipe. It works perfectly! I downloaded it from their website, had to accept 3rd party apps on my phone. Now I can listen to YouTube on my phone with the screen off. Will save me $22/mo for the YT family plan.
Youtube has always been Nazi scum. They platformed The Daily Wire, Tim Pool and Joe Rogan without any pushback and maximum algorithm they knew what they were doing. Fuck YouTube they deserve nothing but contempt and have forever.
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I mean howd that work out for twitter ad revanue?
It has no path to including/generating new creators.
https://libtees-2.creator-spring.com/listing/wtpme2lb
We need a different system for this.
You put mfers in a corner, they're gonna fight like hell to get out of it.
Kids think this is bullying, hands down. They do not support putting people back into gendered boxes.
https://www.investopedia.com/investing/companies-owned-by-google/
Nazis.
Fun part? Firefox supports adblockers on their mobile browser as well! Fuck Google Ads.
I've only recently started using it a lot (I'm old) & I am shocked at how much Trump Right wing Maga garbage it's pushing my way. There is 0% chance that's algorithmic, I'm the last person on earth for that shit
It wasn't Covid that broke brains, it's social media. I'm not shocked if they're quietly shifting the Overton window.
I’m watching travel & gardening videos. There’s no way to draw a straight line from that to MAGA misinformation
Big Tech are just a bunch of cowards kissing this fascist regime’s ring (or ass) in fear of retribution of a 78 old white racist demented convicted felon that bankrupt 6 times but somehow scares the sh*t out of everyone could bring.
Baffles me.
There are quite a few of very good content providers on You Tube
Rev. Ed Trevors
The Midas Touch Network
Rabbi Abe
Yes, as an Atheist, I follow the Reverend AND a Rabbi.
After You Tube imposed a large increase for their premium service ( no ads)
I dropped them.
It's ALL ads now 🙁
And the reason idgaf as a cis person bashing cis people is bc gender is all drag. You’re a human being that throws on clothes and says it’s gendered. Whoopdeedoo for you.
And the idea that we organize our lives and societies around the metaphorical clothes people wear is so stupid, all you can do is laugh to keep from crying at the stupidity.
I mean, after all, just going after trans and NB folk would be DEI and that’s bad so everyone gets gone after.
And in case you don’t, I’ll be a good buddy old pal and remind you everyday if you need it, okay?
Is this just a license for people to bully stigmatized group?
On the plus side when the alt right moves back to YT it may kill rumble. Does that rise to the level of silver lining or no?
Already was having a rough day. Well this is cruddy news.
I appreciate the suggestion, though.
Another thing I can get rid of
Ein Boykott von Youtube bringt auch mehr Freizeit.
You can use either custom browsers, YouTube clones or straight up block the adds through your router
Fuck Google
For example, "gender is a social construct". Gender identity is not (or at the least is almost always not)
Rumble if your grifting is too spicy even for YouTube.
Odysee if you're a crypto bro.
PeerTube if you hate yourself.
There's also Mulvad for VPN and browser if you want to secure those, too. Their browser is Firefox-based rather than Chromium-based.
The nice thing about Mulvad VPN is that it neither has awareness of your identity and it can foil AI attempts to ID you based on your network usage trends.
It's literally a country club.
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/
Well, so much for THAT.
So why then? NEVER assume a billionaire (or billion dollar corporations) give a flying fuck about you.
Adblocker: Ublock Origin on Firefox (Chrome is getting rid of Ublock)
Third-Party:
NewPipe
PipePipe
FreeTube
You can also use DuckDuckGo to watch privately!
For more information look up alternatives on r/DeGoogle (the DeGoogle Subreddit)
Youtube actually loads the data it needs to run the video player first, and it loads the "remove your adblocker" part of the page afterwards, so if you refresh the page then hit "stop loading this page" a couple moments in, you can watch the video.