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YouTube has updated its policy against harassment and will now not allow videos to be published "that maliciously insult someone based on protected attributes such as race, gender or sexual orientation." This policy will affect all types of users, be they anonymous people, creators or even politicians.
"Harassment damages our community by making people feel less inclined to share their opinions and start conversations," explains Matt Halprin , vice president and head of trust and security for the company, in a blog post.
The company met with creators and organizations to update this policy, which seems to respond, in part, to the harassment suffered by Carlos Maza, a Vox journalist who suffered - and denounced - the harassment that the comedian Steven Crowder submitted, according to BuzzFeed.
In June of this year, Maza used his Twitter account to complain about the situation, but at the time YouTube simply acknowledged that the language used "was clearly harmful." However, he did not violate his policy, so the videos, in which he used the fact that Maza is Latino and gay to insult him, remained on the platform.
Now some of these videos will be deleted, although YouTube has not referred to this case in the blog post. The company has also assured that it will remove videos and channels if they do not comply with this directive, in addition to expelling these users from the partner program that allows the content to be monetized.
In this sense, the portal owned by Google has also updated the policy regarding threats to also collect, as it has done with insults, more veiled ways to threaten a person.
These policy changes will also apply to the comments section, where YouTube also has to delete millions of messages. Specifically, 16 million of them in the third quarter of the year alone, and this was before implementing more strict standards.
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