from RT:
The Google subsidiary updated its “hateful content” policies on Wednesday, announcing the clampdown in a blog post. The company said that from now on it will be “specifically prohibiting videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion.” Other videos that don’t strictly violate the site’s rules – including those promoting phony science or conspiracy theories – will be subject to demonetization, and other measures to restrict their viewership.
Orwellian in theory? In practice, too. YouTube didn’t wait long before wielding the ban-hammer with glee.
First on the chopping block were videos that outright violated the “supremacist” rule. Norwegian black metal musician and convicted murderer Varg Vikernes had his channel ‘Thulean Perspective’ banned, likely for its pan-European white separatist content.
YouTube appears to have taken its vow to pull “videos that promote or glorify Nazi ideology” seriously, removing everything from Vikernes’ neo-pagan vlogs to low-fi punk music from its platform.
Others targeted included vlogger ‘Sinatra Says,’ who rails against feminism and the social justice movement. For the crime of wrongthink, Sinatra had his channel demonetized. YouTube did not cite a single offensive video, but instead told the troublemaker that the move was necessary to “ensure our community is safe for creators, viewers and advertisers.”
what the hell @TeamYouTube a day after you confirm 3 of my videos ARE ADVERTISER FRIENDLY i get completely demonetized? This has to be some kind of mistake.. pic.twitter.com/AzpVBazxLR
— Sinatra (@Sinatra_Says) 5 June 2019
Nationalist commentator James Allsup saw his channel’s advertising revenue cut off, with YouTube issuing the same ‘community safety’ justification, as did scores of other “borderline” commentators and creators, like ‘identitarian’ Austrian nationalist Martin Sellner and conservative pundit Steven Crowder.
Within minutes of the new YouTube rules being announced, James Allsup had his entire channel demonetized.https://t.co/eoc0ZbGTp3 pic.twitter.com/KcP0LY3odW
— Ethan Ralph (@TheRalphRetort) 5 June 2019
