So, I have pretty thick skin when it comes to online harassment, but something has been really bothering me.
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Replying to @gaywonk
(1/4) Thanks again for taking the time to share all of this information with us. We take allegations of harassment very seriously–we know this is important and impacts a lot of people.
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Replying to @TeamYouTube @gaywonk
(2/4) Our teams spent the last few days conducting an in-depth review of the videos flagged to us, and while we found language that was clearly hurtful, the videos as posted don’t violate our policies. We’ve included more info below to explain this decision:
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Replying to @TeamYouTube @gaywonk
(3/4) As an open platform, it’s crucial for us to allow everyone–from creators to journalists to late-night TV hosts–to express their opinions w/in the scope of our policies. Opinions can be deeply offensive, but if they don’t violate our policies, they’ll remain on our site.
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Replying to @TeamYouTube @gaywonk
how is using offensive language towards a protected group NOT either of these two things, which you yourselves deem as inappropriate?? you lot are so whackpic.twitter.com/ayHkbVrRZw
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Then they need to start taking down 90% of hip hop/rap videos.
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why just hip hop? there’s plenty of other genres that use demeaning language to women/lgbtq+ ppl which i also don’t agree with, however the far right podcasts/bloggers definitely have worse motivations and spread more hatred ...
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So now you want to censor people based on their motivations? How subjective and convenient of the far-left Marxists. So rappers that rap about raping women and calling them b*tches and whores (not even touching on the rampant homophobia) have different motivations?
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i don’t even understand where you’ve got any of that from but go off... think you need to take a break from twitter or something love cos u seem very angry x
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in all fairness I don’t feel I need to explain my previous point more than I already have, I hadn’t commented anything about hip hop and I don’t feel it’s particularly relevent to the original discussion about LGBTQ people being harassed by bloggers..
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