Originally published at: YOUTUBE CRACKDOWN: The Platform Vows to Remove ‘Thousands’ of Videos Featuring ‘Extreme Views’ | Sean Hannity
Social media giant YouTube announced Wednesday their plans to remove thousands of videos pushing “extreme views” on their platform; pledging to “clean up” the site after critics accused the network of promoting hate online.
“YouTube announced plans on Wednesday to remove thousands of videos and channels that advocate for neo-Nazism, white supremacy and other bigoted ideologies in an attempt to clean up extremism and hate speech on its popular service,” reports the New York Times.
“The new policy will ban ‘videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion,’ the company said in a blog post. The prohibition will also cover videos denying that violent incidents, like the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, took place,” adds the newspaper.
“It’s our responsibility to protect that, and prevent our platform from being used to incite hatred, harassment, discrimination and violence,” posted the company.
Social media censorship has taken center stage in recent months, with conservative users claiming the platforms have removed content, censored speech, or banned personalities for their views.
Earlier this year, Project Veritas released a video showing Twitter employees bragging about “deleting” Trump supporters from the social network.
Twitter engineer thinks Trump supporters' tweets are bots, and "you just delete them." Says "they'll all be like God, 'Merica, and with the American flag and, like the cross… Who talks like that? It's for sure a bot." pic.twitter.com/dwLhyf7cQk
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) March 21, 2019
“Just go to a random [Trump] tweet, and just look at the followers. They’ll all be like: ‘Guns, God, ‘Merica,’ and with the American flag, the cross, something. Who says that? Who talks like that? For sure it’s a bot,” claimed a Direct Messaging Engineer.
“So, can you get rid of them?” asked the undercover journalist.
“Yeah. You just delete them. The problem is there are hundreds of thousands of them,” he added.
