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Right Wing Purge: YouTube Plans on Banning Videos Even if They Don’t Violate its Policies

YouTube will continue purging content, but now it will target content which doesn’t necessarily violate its policies.

In recent months, YouTube has waged war on “conspiracy” and right-wing videos. Now, it’s doubling down by introducing a new policy to ban content which promotes the superiority of certain groups to others signaled by its announcement to ban content promoting one group as superior to another “in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status.”

Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Axios that YouTube’s new content policing strategy would single out what they describe as “borderline content.”

Pichair describes “borderline content” as “Content which doesn’t exactly violate […]

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