When we debate on posting possible NSFW videos onto the magazine's website from YouTube, we often say, hey, if it's okay for YouTube, it's okay for Instinct Magazine. Now it seems that YouTube may be censoring itself a great deal more than we are. HOW RUDE!
LGBTQ YouTubers have begun to notice that many of their videos are being hidden in the site’s Restricted Mode. British vlogger Rowan Ellis called attention to the issue, which makes it harder for queer people to share their content and raises questions about what the site deems appropriate and inappropriate. She mentioned that hers, Calum McSwiggan, and other LGBT video channels have been affected. Here is What Calum has to say about the lovely YouTube settings.
Restricted Mode is a feature on the video sharing website that allows for the automatic filtering of certain content. The filters are, according to Google (which owns YouTube) based on “community flagging, age-restrictions, and other signals to identify and filter out potentially inappropriate content.” If that’s the case, it seems rather suspicious that even the most innocuous of videos dealing with LGBTQ issues and people, including the video above, are being blocked in this mode.
“There is a bias somewhere within that process equating LGBTQ+ with ‘not family friendly,’” says Ellis, “[regardless of] how innocent or unintentional the ‘hows’ or ‘whys’ are, the effects cannot be ignored… Videos about LGBTQ+ life, love, history, friendships, etc, are no more inappropriate than videos with straight couples or telling the history of straight figures. Yet they are apparently being treated differently.”
Videos with words like “lesbian” and “bisexual” in the title are conspicuously absent in the filtered view. – nylon.com
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Your thoughts? Should LGBT issues be part of a restricted mode on YouTube?
h/t: nylon.com
This is all the Christian
This is all the Christian agenda to impose their unfounded beliefs on society. But religion is really dangerous and it can fuck u a child's mind with the threats of hell and the idea of spirits lurking and trying to possess your body and mind. I know this because up until a few years ago I was in the Pentecostal church and I know how destructive religion can be for a child filling their minds with fear and psychosis. It's religion that promotes and spreads terror and homophobia across the world. Religion is destructive and it should be restricted.