The YouTube app accepts having censored LGTBI videos in its "Restricted Mode"
GAYLES.TV.- The one known as "Restricted mode" consists of an optional filter that the user of YouTube you can activate with the intention of "removing potentially unpleasant content that you prefer not to see or that others in your family see," according to the information provided by YouTube. The intention of course is laudable, especially in order to protect the little ones from violent or offensive content, but there is a risk that it will become a censorship drain for certain content, specifically we are talking about LGTBI-themed videos.
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Outubers has raised the alarm saying that the "restricted mode" of YouTube was homophobic as it automatically disappeared all videos containing tags like "Gay", "lgtbi", "lesbian" or similar. In fact they were also removed from the favorites bar.
Google defends itself by stating that the "restricted mode" is based, to establish what is filtered and what is not, on "complaints from the community and age restrictions", but the youtubers do not see it so clearly and have started a campaign of protest with the hashtag #YouTubeIsOverParty to retweet examples of how the YouTube filter removes certain videos. The tweets consist of screenshots of before and after the deletion of videos. This is the case of a user who reported the disappearance of a video in which Ariana Grande He gives advice to his gay fans on how to avoid bullying in certain circumstances.
It will be a matter of being parrot and checking whether the criteria followed by the application really is protectionist or rather discriminatory.
Sources: eldiario.es
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