YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy

Stop using youtube.

EDIT: A lot of people real fuckin triggered by this and looking for any excuse to keep using. Fucking addicts.

So, sundar pinchai can be added to the list of CEOs that suck?

Because a lot of the time, it's weird that when the company does nasty shit, nobody names him as the head asshole in charge the way that other companies and ceos get handled.

The dude has been in the driver's seat for pretty much every major deterioration of Google/alphabet for years.

It's almost impressive how quickly the whole of the business world capitulated to Donald Trump.

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.

Man this whole anticipatory compliance with the fascist regime shit is fucking awful

When an influential group of powerful people make hate speech a part of their standard rhetoric, is EXACTLY when you MUST block it on your platform, not a signal that it's time to start letting it slide, you fucking pricks.

And people judged me for watching YouTube with uBlock Origin, or via NewPipe for eons.

Look who's laughing now.

Don't Be Evil

"Don't Be Evil"

(I know this hasn't been the Google motto in years -- when it stopped was one of the biggest corporate red flags)

More proof Rainbow Capitalism was a lie/ad campaign to take more money from queers.

I wish I could rub this in the face of every cishet who said Rainbow Capitalism was actual progress.

Showing how truly performative their big “ally” push was during the pandemic. All their BLM and diversity support was just as performative. Big corporations are just sycophantic monsters riding trends. Avoid them where possible.

I hated Google far before it was cool. I would feel vindicated if it weren't so damn overdue. They don't even contribute meaningfully to society. And I mean that about EVERYTHING

Gmail is lame, their search engine sucks, chrome wastes resources, their ads platform ruined the internet, Golang fundamentally sucks, the emulation layer of android is so fucking wasteful, Material Design ruined digital creativity, etc.

First reddit now youtube. Welcome to the tech broligarchy

That is why centralized platforms, especially powerful ones, are sitting ducks waiting to become even more corrupt. Why more people are not leaving centralized services is a crime against humanity as it is clear that supporting theme means society suffers.

This was bound to happen after the election results just a matter of time. Also, hate speech related content possibly gets a lot of clicks. So capitalism benefits. Next is, possibly but hopefully not, Bluesky's official server.

I'm not in favor of YouTube, but what exactly missing here?

Don’t be evil

While I hate Google, this seems like one of those much ados over nothing. They specifically mention 'sex, gender, or sexual orientation', which to most reasonable people would cover gender identity.

There is one thing that is vital that is missing from peertube. Effective monetization.

By watching on peertube I am a drain on resources. A net negative. I'd happily pay to offset those costs and more, but I want it to be shared amongst multiple creators and hosters.

I don't want to just support one, I want to support most of the network for the hosting and bandwidth, and a certain amount divided amongst the creators I watch.

If PeerTube introduces some sort of payment / monetization solution, it might get more creators as well. Without it I can't see it growing fast enough to compete with YouTube in the near future.

Well.. Sooner or later the costs of Full HD compressed video will be negligible for hosting and bandwidth, so that might be when YouTube gets a real challenge. So I guess we'll see

They also allowed a pedo back on their platform

Everyone should check out PeerTube sometime, the UX has improved a lot and there's a decent amount of content too. I recommend installing the PeerTube Companion app. It shows a popup on YouTube if you've clicked on a video that is also available on PeerTube.

Keep using uorigin for blocking as. Also use Firefox.

Fuck rainbow capitalism

youtube has enshittified for a while, they went downhill as soon as they announced that they no longer backed election denial reports. then all the right wing, anti-woke videos started popping up all over the place, plus the one that try to seem like its both sides videos too.

allowing people like beast, and others to dominate the front, was asking for trouble.

It's time to boycott Google as well now hu? Already ditched their search engine and moved to kagi

A real alternative to YouTube would be so good right now.

They don’t want proof that what’s going to be happening soon, was ever mortally objectionable.

Probably because no one is actually using any gender identity based bigotry any more. So they might as well just remove it, it saves space. /s

Google should get destroyed

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.

Look at the latest executive order on "protecting children". They are planning for eugenics.

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: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2801939

EDIT: Nevermind, saw further in the thread

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On the one hand, less censorship, on the other, something a lot worse.