Now that YouTube has been testing the waters for long and no widespread backlash has occured, they are changing their policy to even further censorship.
>YouTube is changing its community guidelines to ban videos promoting the superiority of any group as a justification for discrimination against others based on their age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status, the company said today. The move will result in the removal of all videos promoting Nazism and other discriminatory ideologies, is expected to result in the removal of thousands of channels across YouTube.
I'm sure this will be applied fairly and never abused to remove inconvinient channels.
>The rule extends to the denial of “well-documented violent events,” such as the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting and 9/11. Users are no longer allowed to post videos saying those events did not happen, YouTube said.
While Alex Jones is a retard, "users are no longer allowed to say that those events did not happen" is a downright scary statement.
>Second, YouTube said it would expand efforts announced in January to reduce the spread of what it calls “borderline content and harmful misinformation.”
This is where it gets bad.
>The policy, which applies to videos that flirt with violating the community guidelines but ultimately fall short, aims to limit the promotion of those videos through recommendations. YouTube said the policy, which affects videos including flat-earthers and peddlers of phony miracle cures, had already decreased the number of views that borderline videos receive by 50 percent.
A video breaks no rules but contains opinions that you don't like? Just prevent anybody from seeing it!
>The company will recommend videos from more authoritative sources, like top news channels, in its “next watch” panel.
Oh, yeah, you're going to always have CNN in your recommended videos now because they are trustworthy and fuck the small content creators and stuff.