Posted on 06/11/2019 7:34:12 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki apologized to the LGBT community Monday for how the video-streaming site has handled anti-gay comments.
“I know that the decisions we made was very hurtful to the LGBTQ community and that wasn’t our intention at all,” Wojcicki said during a tech industry conference in Arizona, according to USA Today.
She was particularly referring to a recent controversy over comments made by conservative commentator Steven Crowder about Vox journalist Carlos Maza.
Maza accused the conservative of inciting harassment and making derogatory comments about his ethnicity and sexuality.
YouTube decided to demonetize Crowder's videos, but has refused to take them down. The move has garnered criticism, but Wojcicki justified it on Monday.
“It’s just from a policy standpoint we need to be consistent — if we took down that content, there would be so much other content that we need to take down,” she said, according to the newspaper.
Wojcicki also called it a "hard decision."
“YouTube has always been a home of so many LGBTQ creators, and that’s why it was so emotional," Wojcicki said. "Even though it was a hard decision, it was harder that it came from us — because it was such an important home. And even though we made this decision, we have so many people from the LGBTQ community. As a company we really want to support this community."
YouTube last week also updated its hate speech and harassment policies last week.
"In the coming months, we will be taking a hard look at our harassment policies with an aim to update them — just as we have to so many policies over the years — in consultation with experts, creators, journalists and those who have, themselves, been victims of harassment. We are determined to evolve our policies, and continue to hold our creators and ourselves to a higher standard," the company said in a blog post.
If Youtube was consistent, liberal content would be decimated and that would create an even greater backlash.
Anti-gay? BS
More like anti-shove-it-down-our-throats.
Thanks to a half Asian Lawyer.
Otherwise they would not have paused for a second.
At the exclusion of all others.
That's rich, coming from the Gaystapo.
Yourube is ok with homofascists depicting a catholic priest regurgitating feces in their F@@@ H8 campaign
Freedom of speech is a right. Freedom from hurt feelings is a childish fantasy.
Pandering to perverts is societal suicide.
Every homosexual term Crowder used is a term Maza uses regularly to describe himself.
Big Tech is abusing the Constitutional rights of conservatives and the GOP could not care less. THAT is the big story here.
You are free to live your life however you like... but in a free society you are NOT free from exposure to people who do not like, and do not agree with how you choose to live your life....
If you are going to take down this guy for his comment, you would have to take down every left wing nut whos put up videos calling conservatives nazis and worse.
The left wants to silence its opponents because it cannot win the battle on merit.
Also read: There is No Such Thing as ‘Hate Speech’
Billions of copyright infractions on yourube.
It trafficks more illegal file shares than Napster did
Since by their actions they are not a common carrier, they are legally liable.
And there was a time when we even expected children to overcome hurt feelings on their own - remember "sticks and stones..."?
Saying you're offended is like saying you can't regulate your own feelings so you expect the rest of the world to do it for you.
How do you believe 'hate speech' could be challenged in the Supreme Court and the case won?
I'm surprised no one has brought such a case to the Supreme Court.
“in consultation with experts, creators, journalists and those who have, themselves, been victims of harassment”
Guarantee they won’t “consult” with any conservatives that have been victims of harassment.
Well said.
Isn’t BitChute a competitor?
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