YouTube Defends Punishing Politically Incorrect Opinions: ‘We’ve Been Doing it For Years’
Google-owned platform doesn’t enforce rules against large media corporations like CNN or Sony
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
September 2, 2016
YouTube responded to the outcry over its decision to punish “controversial” opinions by demonetizing videos by insisting that the policy had already been in place for three years.
The Google-owned platform recently released new “advertiser friendly” guidelines that stipulated how discussion of “controversial or sensitive subjects and events” would be punished by the user being unable to collect advertising money on such videos.
This prompted a huge backlash from the YouTube community, with many seeing the move as a way of disincentivizing the creation of any videos that touched on contentious political or social issues.
However, instead of amending the policy to satisfy the content creators who have fueled the growth of YouTube, the company simply doubled down and insisted that it had already been punishing controversial opinions for years.
“YouTube insists it has not changed its policy on which videos will have adverts attached to them since 2013 but has merely improved the way it communicates with its users,” reports the Daily Mail.
“While our policy of demonetizing videos due to advertiser-friendly concerns hasn’t changed, we’ve recently improved the notification and appeal process to ensure better communication,” said a YouTube spokesperson.
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