Vox Adpocalypse CHAOS, Steven Crowder, YouTube And FREE SPEECH

On Wednesday, YouTube announced it will limit access or outright ban content it deems racist or supportive of white supremacy. In an official blog post, company representatives wrote "videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status," will no longer be allowed on the platform. The site's algorithm will also change to push less "authoritative" content in viewer's recommended feeds. For example, if a person watches a video that "comes close" to violating YouTube's policies, they might be recommended videos from more established and reputable news outlets.

These changes come amid an ongoing dispute between Vox journalist Carlos Maza and conservative commentator Steven Crowder. Crowder used homophobic language towards Maza, calling him a "lispy queer," on his YouTube show "Louder with Crowder." Maza noted on Twitter that Crowder had broken YouTube's Terms of Service, which prohibits "content that makes hurtful and negative personal comments/videos about another person."

Maza's thread went viral, and public pressure led to a YouTube response. On Tuesday, the Team YouTube Twitter account wrote that while the company "found language that was clearly hurtful, the videos as posted don't violate our policies." The next day, YouTube reversed its stance and announced Crowder's channel would be demonetized. The ads would be reinstated after Crowder made changes to his channel, including the removal of a "Socialism is for F*gs" T-shirt on his website.

"They supported Crowder at first because he didn't violate any guidelines. Despite that fact, they backpedaled later once the social media pressure was too much," said Antonio Chavez, who runs the Memology101 channel. which posts supercut compilations of internet news and drama. "YouTube's new policies are pro-censorship. It will not end well."

This back and forth between the Vox journalist, Steven Crowder, YouTube and the whole free speech thing is definitely the topic of today's video.

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