Thousands of YouTube channels could close with a new anti-hate speech policy

YouTube has toughened its anti-hate speech policy following criticisms that the Google unit was not doing enough to prevent extreme content from accessing its online video service. The company said on Wednesday that will forbid Videos that "claim that a group is superior to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities such as age, bad, race, caste, religion, badual orientation or the status of a veteran ".

This includes videos that promote or glorify Nazi ideologyYouTube has described as "inherently discriminatory". The company said in a blog post that it would also remove content that denies well-documented violent events, such as the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

YouTube channels that repeatedly violate these hate speech rules will be suspended from YouTube's partner program, which means that they will not be able to run ads on their channel, the company said.

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This new moderation will be done in 3 different ways. In the first place, all the channels and videos of supremacy, Nazi ideology or advocating segregation or exclusion according to age, bad, race, religion, ethnicity, religion, bad, race badual orientation, etc. will be eliminated. It will also prevent videos from being uploaded by denying facts and "Well documented violent events" like school shootings (like Sandy Hook Elementary School and September 11th).

One of the most clbadic tactics of the far right is to deny this type of events and badociate them with conspiracies or their non-use to foment racism and blame foreign groups.

The second way will be that, according to YouTube, the spread of what she calls "Limit content and harmful misinformation." Videos that talk about violating community norms or trying to circumvent these bans to promote other similar videos so they appear in recommendations fall into this category. This measure, which was already partially applied, had reduced by 50% the number of video visits of fake miraculous remedies or in the absence of homeopathy.

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