YouTube to ban 'hateful,' 'supremacist' videos after protest by Google employees, progenitor of furore hits out

Tweaking its policies to keep up with current issues, Google-owned video platform YouTube anunced on Wednesday that it would ban videos promoting or glorifying racism and discrimination as well as those denying well-documented violent events, like Holocaust or Sandy Hook elementary school shooting.

YouTube updated its policy towards "hateful content" and videos that "justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like , , race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status." ditionally, denial of "well-documented violent events," will t be allowed.

videos that contain such gestures will be taken down although it could be left for research purposes later. YouTube ded that "context matters," and exceptions could be me in case pending legislation is discussed in video, or if content analyzes or exposes hate.

rules were formulated after rounds of consultations with "experts in subjects like violent extremism, supremacism, civil rights, and free speech."

Channels that repeatedly violate se policies will be suspended from YouTube Partner program, which means y won’t be able to post s on ir channel, company said.

anuncement stemmed from a controversy over videos from comedian Steven Crowder. A protest from employees of Google forced company to take action after comedian me homophobic and racist jokes about a journalist. Initially, YouTube claimed that behaviour h t violated its policies but backtracked its decision after protests.  

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Responding to updated policy, Crowder said, “ ability for one to make a living online, particularly on YouTube, is about to change drastically.”  He also apologized to "parties involved" via a video on Twitter. Launching a tire against Vox and YouTube, he accused both companies of launching a war on all independent creators ding that thousands of channels were under threat of review after policy update.