There are way too many serious accusations that go online. Especially when people spread rumours about certain people that they start convincing others that this person is this and that.
But to a certain extent, I kind of agree with the snooper charter thing we have in the UK since there are people that do abuse free speech. Like condoning paedophilia for instance when it’s common sense that paedophilia is wrong and it shouldn’t be justified.
I love the political stuff on YouTube and I definitely think they’re going too far with their guidelines. Like the fact that you can’t even say certain words now because of their weird algorithm. For a while, LGBTQ words like “bisexual” and “trans” would get you demonetised!
But I don’t think that means they’re breaking the Amendment or that they’re against free speech. They aren’t going around shutting up people who disagree with them. They’re just saying “not in my house”. If they wanna ruin their reputation and lose money? That’s up to them
Demonetising words like “eating disorder” doesn’t make YouTube a better place. All it does it make bad people use dogwhistles or other euphemistic language, and make it harder to access useful and helpful material on the topic.
This is why demonetisation shouldn’t be done by bots – and why they’re screwing themselves over by completely automating the content violation process. You have to go to court if you want to take someone down for copyright! There should be real people on the other side of YouTube who can use discretion that robots can’t
Is it going to lose them money though in the long run? It’s not really a big deal to not allow certain words.
It’s definitely going to lose them a lot of money, since they take it to the extreme. They demonetise and block useful videos on topics like eating disorders, for example, that could actually help sufferers. Or educational videos on topics like the history of Nazi Germany because you can’t say the words “Nazi” or “eating disorder” in any capacity. The intention or content doesn’t matter!
But at the same time, that’s their prerogative and they can choose to use their private property however they like. It doesn’t go against free speech
I don’t think it should be justified, but I think there is a fine line. When we start policing and legislating language, it makes it a lot easier to take the next step to, say, insulting the Prime Minister being against the law
For real? I didn’t know about that but yeah, some things people say online can be classed as hate speech.
I can understand blocking certain content on things like eating disorders.
I don’t understand blocking any content indiscriminately. Especially considering it’s not about whether your video is about the topic, it’s about simply saying the words “eating disorder”
I think free speach is important as long as people can accept consequences for things they say and they are able to separate opinion from fact.
I’m not educated enough in the other areas but I’m not keen on censorship. Look a vevo blocking out swear words on videos, on the music video for “I hate everything about you” by three days grace they censor the word “hit”. That’s not even a swear word it’s ridiculous to censor that.
Not sure why they censored the word hit. It’s not like they said, “fck or “s**t”
It might’ve been because it was used in the drug sense like “every hit we take” or they could have thought “oh no somebody will hear that word and think it’s okay to hit people” 
Lol yeah, maybe they thought it was to do with abusive relationships. But the chorus is so relatable!
It really is, imagine if they censored the word hate aswell
facepalms
From my experience, with that topic in general it can be a harmful topic to have in certain circumstances. So to a certain extent I can understand it. But to me, it depends on the context it is in.
That’s exactly my problem. The YouTube bot doesn’t distinguish between contexts. Someone could say “I used to have an eating disorder but I feel a lot better now” in passing in a video and that will be listed as a violation of content guidelines
Oh well, at the end of the day I guess I see that as a problem maybe on an information site, or a conversational platform. But on a place like YouTube, it’s not it’s main purpose so it’s not a huge issue in my opinion. Besides there’s ways round it. Just don’t use those words 
I dunno if I agree with that. Vlogging is a huge part of YouTube’s purpose and not being able to say “eating disorders” or “gay” or anything like that is a huge problem.
Also, political videos are a huge part of YouTube’s demographic. And educational videos! They’re all important parts of YouTube and they should all be valued the same.