YouTube demonetizes Candace Owens anti-trans videos says misgendering may fall under hateful conduct

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Last edited Fri Jun 9, 2023, 04:25 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: NBC News

YouTube said that it demonetized several videos on conservative pundit Candace Owens' channel for violating its monetization policies on hateful and derogatory content, which the company said may apply to instances of misgendering or deadnaming.

YouTube does not publicly list any policy on misgendering but said in a statement that it considers deliberate misgendering as potentially violative of its monetization policy on hateful conduct.

On the Candace Owens Podcast channel Monday, Owens said YouTube gave her “an option to delete every video that I’ve ever done pertaining to gender in which I have accurately gendered someone” — referring to instances in which she’s used pronouns not preferred by trans individuals. Videos in which Owens misgendered individuals were considered “hateful conduct” by YouTube, according to Owens in a segment in the episode titled ‘I Have An Announcement To Make.’

Owens’ YouTube censorship claims come amid the ongoing cultural debate on free speech and anti-trans content published by conservative media online. While YouTube said it did not remove Owens’ videos, Michael Aciman, a Google spokesperson, said that the company blocked ads on “several videos on Candace Owen’s channel for violating our monetization policies, including those against hateful and derogatory content.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/candace-owens-youtube-gender-pronouns-video-trans-announcement-rcna88175

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Full headline: YouTube demonetizes Candace Owens' anti-trans videos, says misgendering may fall under hateful conduct policy

[Mad_Machine76]

1. *May*?!

[SouthernDem4ever]

2. Seriously, when hasn't she been spewing hate speech

It's her whole M.O.

[Mad_Machine76]

6. EXACTLY!

[Warpy]

3. Hooray, You Tube

Off to Twitter with that hateful baggage.

[AZ8theist]

14. Let's not celebrate Youtube....

Great they did this, but they also are now allowing election denying misinformation to return.

[Warpy]

15. Oh, trust me, the celebration was brief

They've been driving me nuts lately, age restricting everything some wacko Christian doesn't want their three year old (going on 30) to see and disappearing everything some idiot buying up NFTs wants made private.

They've always been tolerant of conspiracy rubbish posted by halfwits (see: Crazy Sprinkler Lady). Antivax nonsense was only suspended while Covid posed an existential threat. Now enough of us are vaxed that the disease is starting to fade, although it is far from gone, and it's safe to allow the antivax crusaders back out of temporary isolation.

[AllaN01Bear]

4. i thought i read where yt wasnt going to do that anymore.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Apparently that policy change had to do with "Election misinformation"

YouTube will no longer take down false claims about U.S. elections
June 2, 20235:19 PM ET


Shannon Bond


YouTube will no longer remove videos falsely claiming the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen, reversing a policy put in place in the contentious weeks following the 2020 vote. The Google-owned video platform said in a blog post that it has taken down "tens of thousands" of videos questioning the integrity of past U.S. presidential elections since it created the policy in December 2020.

But two and a half years later, the company said it "will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past U.S. Presidential elections" because things have changed. It said the decision was "carefully deliberated."

"In the current environment, we find that while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech without meaningfully reducing the risk of violence or other real-world harm," YouTube said.

The platform will continue to ban videos misleading voters about when, where, and how to vote, claims that discourage voting, and "content that encourages others to interfere with democratic processes."

(snip)

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/02/1179864026/youtube-will-no-longer-take-down-false-claims-about-u-s-elections

[AllaN01Bear]

9. thanks . thank goodness for the dont recomend channel button!

[SouthBayDem]

7. link to article

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/candace-owens-youtube-gender-pronouns-video-trans-announcement-rcna88175

Yet YouTube will not demonetize "the election was stolen" videos? What's with their picking and choosing which harmful speech is unwelcome? Because "Trump actually won in 2020" videos are more profitable?

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Thank you

This is what happens when running on vapors.

And yup - I expect that huge amounts of dark $$$ pumped into elections are a reason why they will purposely look the other way.

[AllaN01Bear]

10. good .

[IzzaNuDay]

11. Whatever it takes to bring her to obscurity.

CO is nothing but a walking word salad. She hopes for relevance because she is a black woman espousing conservative values.

She needs to be irrelevant like yesterday.

[wolfie001]

12. Uh, Matt Walsh is 10 times worse

[riversedge]

13. Isn't misgendering happening in DeSantis's Florida schools right now?

[LostOne4Ever]

16. About time! (nt)