YouTube Becomes 100% Politically Correct, “Inappropriate Language” Will be Demonetized
By Alex Christoforou
The Duran
The Duran
September 3, 2016
Content creators who helped build the YouTube platform are being stabbed in the back.
Social media is now starting to push the politically correct mantra to official levels.
Twitter has already been moving quickly in this direction as was witnessed when it banned Milo Yiannopoulos for his Ghostbuster comments.
Now a new “advertiser friendly” policy is being introduced by YouTube that will effectively punish users who express politically incorrect opinions or dare to offend viewers.
The punishment will be doled out in the form of de-monetizing content.
YouTube will retain the right to demonetize any videos that contain…
Social media is now starting to push the politically correct mantra to official levels.
Twitter has already been moving quickly in this direction as was witnessed when it banned Milo Yiannopoulos for his Ghostbuster comments.
Now a new “advertiser friendly” policy is being introduced by YouTube that will effectively punish users who express politically incorrect opinions or dare to offend viewers.
The punishment will be doled out in the form of de-monetizing content.
YouTube will retain the right to demonetize any videos that contain…
“Controversial or sensitive subjects and events, including subjects related to war, political conflicts, natural disasters and tragedies, even if graphic imagery is not shown.”Also in the demonetization crosshairs…
“Inappropriate language, including harassment, profanity and vulgar language.”Infowars reports further on YouTube’s new censorship policy…
YouTube’s new policy will completely disincentivize YouTubers from discussing politically incorrect topics or expressing controversial opinions because they know they will be punished for doing so.Many YouTubers make a living off their channel and will therefore be walking on eggshells to avoid the company’s stringent new rules.Via InfoWars.com.
The new policy bears some hallmarks of the Communist Chinese government’s “social credit score system,” whereby Internet users are punished by private companies and their peers for expressing unpopular views on social media.
The move is primarily designed to scare away YouTubers from making anti-establishment political content, but prominent YouTubers are already reporting that videos on everything from acne solutions to tips on combating depression are being demonetized because they are not “advertiser friendly”.
Prominent YouTuber Philip DeFranco responded to the controversy by vowing, “I’m not going to censor myself,” despite the fact that dozens of his videos have already been demonetized.
Google-owned YouTube is of course a private company and can enforce any rules it likes, but with the advent of such corporations becoming so large (more powerful than countries in some cases), in addition to them insisting on being treated as a public utility, the move is a massive stab in the back for the content creators who helped build the platform in the first place.
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