Wed Apr 12, 2023 – 12:41 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Conservatives are continuously fighting censorship from Big Tech, especially when up against YouTube’s hate speech policy.
Like all media platforms, the site has numerous policies established to monitor and limit content related to incited violence, misinformation, and harassment, removing videos which violate such terms and conditions. However, that category of inappropriate content has broadened over the years to the general and unspecified realm of “hate speech.”
On June 5, 2019, YouTube unveiled its updated “hate speech” policy. YouTube’s announcement explained that the modified guidelines were designed to “tackle hate” by “specifically prohibiting videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status.”
The announcement also included mention of goals to continue “limit[ing] recommendations of borderline content and harmful misinformation” by the end of the year.
READ: YouTube bans John-Henry Westen after alleged violation of ‘hate speech policy’
YouTube’s current policy states that “hate speech is not allowed” and that the platform will “remove content promoting violence or hatred against individuals or groups based on any of the
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