YouTube investigating conservative commentator Steven Crowder - Holy Shit. National News.

[scotts_3101]

Why would they? Youtube CEO wants to get rid of Ben Shapiro, Orthodox Jew. They're as partisan as they come but have the sense to care about what optics they have left.

I guess you’re probably right based on their previous actions. I just kind of wish these were normal companies that only cared about the bottom line (as weird as that sounds).
He seems to be upsetting a lot of other people on the site. YouTube is really between a rock and a hard place here. They have two factions of people waiting to see how they respond to this, and no matter what they do it’s probably going to lose them money.

 

[greengrilledcheese]

Cry harder faggots.

At Vox Media, we have embraced partnering with other organizations to bring our work to as broad an audience as possible. We believe in the advantages of a free and open web that allows people to find their voices online. We share this belief with YouTube, and have spent years creating incredible work on the platform and growing loyal, engaged audiences across the YouTube community.

But the platform and the system now appears to be broken in some ways that we can’t tolerate. By refusing to take a stand on hate speech, they allow the worst of their communities to hide behind cries of “free speech” and “fake news” all while increasingly targeting people with the most offensive and odious harassment. They encourage their fans to follow suit and we now see our reporters and creators consistently targeted by the worst abuse online, with no remedy or ability to protect themselves.

YouTube knows this is a problem – it’s developed anti-harassment policies to hold its creators accountable and remove them from the platform when they are in violation. Yet YouTube is not enforcing the policies and are not removing known and identified users who employ hate speech tactics. By tacitly looking the other way, it encourages this behavior and contributes to a society more divided and more radicalized.

YouTube must do better and must enforce their own policies and remove creators who promote hate.

YouTube decides that homophobic harassment does not violate its polic…

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[Stab You in the Back]

Like what though? He bleeps out words that are remotely offensive or crude, he has a lawyer on call and has constantly been contacting Youtube regarding monetization and other issues.

https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1136341801109843968

This is just the beginning.

 

[Rei is shit]

Not the least bit surprised that they caved. This is youtube we are talking about.

 

[kidatari]

Crowder is going to do a live stream in a few minutes, views at 17k

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

Crossposting from another thread

 

[ButterBar]

Crowder is going to do a live stream in a few minutes, views at 17k

Did you watch the stream? What was covered?

 

[AnOminous]

Crowder's in Texas. Specifically, his studios are in Dallas.

Holy fucking shit. So this could seriously be a case of SJWs picking a tortious interference fight in fucking Texas?

When will they learn?

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

Holy fucking shit. So this could seriously be a case of SJWs picking a tortious interference fight in fucking Texas?

When will they learn?

I know, right?

God bless Texas.
It's like the state itself is a Roman Colosseum for the Litigation of Lolcows!

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

Holy fucking shit. So this could seriously be a case of SJWs picking a tortious interference fight in fucking Texas?

When will they learn?

Maybe they’re thinking third times the charm

 

[kidatari]

Did you watch the stream? What was covered?

was private earlier but video is back up

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

Nick Rekieta thinks a lawsuit based on Tortious Interference and Defamation might be possible:

https://twitter.com/NickRekieta/status/1136458850427703297

Rekieta Law: Speech is Free, but Lawyers Aren't on Twitter: "Requesti…

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Now, this is Tortious Interference with Prospective Business Relations to be exact.

We'll see if Bill Richmond and Crowder think the same.

 

[AnOminous]

I always had a personal theory that @Internet War Criminal was actually Steven Crowder.

I'm pretty sure I was wrong about that but I still miss IWC. He was one of the best shitposters we ever had.

 

[The Pink Panther]

I always had a personal theory that @Internet War Criminal was actually Steven Crowder.

I'm pretty sure I was wrong about that but I still miss IWC. He was one of the best shitposters we ever had.

The thing that should've turned you off was MAGA.

Steven Crowder's not really a big Trump guy. Not really as much as Ben Shapiro, but still.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Spoiler: LOL

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YouTube has finished their investigation and will not be banning Crowder's account.
I guess Alphabet is feeling a little nervous now that anti-trust probes are being sent out.

Lmao what about Elsagate and those creepy teeth extraction videos?

 

[The Pink Panther]

Lmao what about Elsagate and those creepy teeth extraction videos?

They're "advertiser friendly" because a popular Disney character's there and they said it was "for da kiddies".

 

[Niggernerd]

He's hardly controversial. He's a cookiecutter conservative that dabbles with low tier edgy jokes.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

They're "advertiser friendly" because a popular Disney character's there and they said it was "for da kiddies".

I hate Frozen but those videos were just horrifying.

Oh lets not forget Johnny Johnny Yes Papa

 

[The Pink Panther]

I hate Frozen but those videos were just horrifying.

Oh lets not forget Johnny Johnny Yes Papa

Spoiler: Islamic Content

 

[greengrilledcheese]

YouTube CEO apologizes to LGBTQ community after outcry

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/10/18660473/youtube-lgbtq-susan-wojcicki-carlos-maza-steven-crowder (http://archive.fo/FAbtS)

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is apologizing to the LGBTQ community in the wake of the company’s failure to take more definitive action against conservative pundit Steven Crowder’s channel.

“I know that the decisions we made was very hurtful to the LGBTQ community and that wasn’t our intention at all,” Wojcicki said at the Code Conference in Scottsdale, AZ today. “That was not our intention, and we were really sorry about that, and I do want to explain why we made the decision we did.”

(Disclosure: Vox is a publication of Vox Media, which also owns The Verge.)

Wojcicki’s comments come after Vox host Carlos Maza tweeted a video compilation of Crowder making homophobic comments about Maza, including calling him a “lispy queer.” YouTube responded via Twitter about the situation, saying that, although the company didn’t agree with the statements Crowder made, his content didn’t violate the company’s policies. The decision led to mass outcry from YouTube creators, critics, and even employees at Google who signed a petition against YouTube’s decision.

Wojcicki was pressed about her apology by Axios’ Ina Fried, who asked the CEO to further expand on her apology.


“I’m really, personally very sorry,” Wojcicki said. “YouTube has always been a home of so many LGBTQ creators, and that’s why it was so emotional. Even though it was a hard decision, it was harder that it came from us — because it was such an important home. And even though we made this decision, we have so many people from the lGBTQ community. We’ve always wanted to openly support this community. As a company we really want to support this community.

“It’s just from a policy standpoint we need to be consistent — if we took down that content, there would be so much other content that we need to take down.”

Everything comes down to context, according to the CEO. Wojcicki said that context is important in deciding when to take action against a channel. For example, rap videos and late night shows often contain words or content that could be considered harmful. Contextually, those videos are fine. It’s the same defense that Crowder and his supporters, both creators and fans, have used, too.

Still, even though Wojcicki believes they made the right decision, the team decided that Crowder’s content wasn’t appropriate for monetization. YouTube’s team decided to stop running ads on Crowder’s channel. Wojcicki told Recode’s Peter Kafka that she agreed “it was the right decision” to leave Crowder’s channel up, but remove ads. A follow up video from Crowder about the situation found the pundit stating that his videos rarely received monetization prior to the controversybecause of his content’s subject matter. Crowder makes a portion of his revenue from selling merchandise, including a shirt that reads, “Socialism is for F*gs.” It’s a facet of the conversation that Maza called out on Twitter following the decision.

“Demonetizing doesn’t work,” Maza tweeted earlier in the week. “Abusers use it as proof they’re being “discriminated” against. Then they make millions off of selling merch, doing speaking gigs, and getting their followers to support them on Patreon. The ad revenue isn’t the problem. It’s the platform.”

Still, YouTube is looking to re-evaluate its harassment policies in the wake of the situation. The CEO also said that “when we change policies, we don’t want to be knee-jerk,“ adding that “we need to have consistent policies” that are continuously enforced.

“Steven Crowder has a lot of videos, and it took some time for us to look at that and understand it in the context of the video because context really, really matters,” Wojcicki said. “We looked at a large number of these videos and we decided they were not violative of our harassment policies.”

When asked if this was an area that YouTube could get a handle on, Wojcicki said there is room for YouTube to improve, but added that she believes the company and the platform have come a long way.