YouTube Prohibits Videos Promoting Racism and Discrimination

Videos that broadcast or promote racism and discrimination are specifically veto from today on YouTube, according to the new update of its rules.

With the end of "eliminate hatred and supremacism on YouTube", the video platform has decided to specifically "ban" videos claiming that one racial group is superior to another to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion, based on criteria such as the Age, bad, race, caste, religion, badual orientation or veteran status

Thus, videos that defend or defend the Nazi ideology, "inherently discriminatory", are left out.

The measure also reaches the content "that deny that it's happened violent events that have been documented, such as the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the United States in 2012, where 20 children and six adults died.

YouTube recognizes that some of this content is of "great interest" to researchers and NGOs seeking to understand and combat hate, which is why they are exploring options to make it available to the public. # 39; future. "

However, the company explained that "some videos could be kept because they trigger a debate on pending legislation and aim to condemn and expose hatred or provide an badysis of current events".

Although the new updated policy comes into effect on Wednesday, YouTube has admitted "it will take some time" for its systems to be "fully implemented" and that they are gradually expanding coverage in the coming months.

Reduce the diffusion of "sensitive content"

The platform also wants to reduce "the dissemination of sensitive content within the limits of what is allowed." So they tested in January an update of their systems in the United States and hope that it will be available in more countries in order to: year

The goal is limit the recommendations of this type of content and false information, "as in the case of videos that offer a miraculous cure for a serious illness that turns out to be false or in which the Earth is said to be flat."

Once this last change is applied, says the message, the number of visits to these videos via recommendations has been reduced by more than 50% in the United States.