YouTube reverses some restrictions on gay-themed content

Associated Press ^ | Mar 20, 2017 6:17 PM EDT | Barbara Ortutay

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The YouTube video shows two women, dressed in suits and ties. They smile; they sniffle back tears; they gaze into each other’s eyes. They are reading their wedding vows to one another.

The four-minute video titled “Her Vows” contains no nudity, violence or swearing. There’s no revealing clothing. No one is engaging in activities that have a “high risk of injury or death.” And yet, YouTube had deemed the video unsuitable for people under 18.

YouTube acknowledged Monday that it might have made a mistake, saying in a tweet, “Some videos have been incorrectly labeled and that’s not right. We’re on it! More to come.” The restriction on the vows video was lifted by Monday afternoon. But others — including one from YouTube celebrity Tyler Oakley titled “8 Black LGBTQ+ Trailblazers Who Inspire Me” — remained on YouTube’s age-restricted list.

Several YouTube users, many of them have in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, have been complaining that their videos are categorized as “restricted” for no obvious reasons. …

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I trust gods divine wrath if you want to call it that. I don’t trust my own. so many times through out history mans sinful nature gets in the way of seeing the truth . I don’t pretend to understand homosexuality and I am lucky enough to say it is not my burden to carry. I have other burdens and chose to treat those that I differ my views on sex with the same respect I hope to see from them....I disagree with you on god being a wrathful entity we just perceive it as that because usually the end result of not fallowing him appears wrathful but all that is happening is the end result of our sinful ways catching up to us. god does not target us we just create the seeds of our own destruction.