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Yet YouTube is not enforcing the policies and are not removing known and identified users who employ hate speech tactics. “YouTube knows this is a problem – it’s developed anti-harassment policies to hold its creators accountable and remove them from the platform when they are in violation. By refusing to take a stand on hate speech, they allow the worst of their communities to hide behind cries of “free speech” and “fake news” all while increasingly targeting people with the most offensive and odious harassment…. “The platform and the system now appears to be broken in some ways that we can’t tolerate. Vox Media issued a response to the initial decision, which reads (in part): There are other aspects of the channel that we’re still evaluating– we’ll be in touch with any further updates.” “Even if a video remains on our site, it doesn’t mean we endorse/support that viewpoint. Opinions can be deeply offensive, but if they don’t violate our policies, they’ll remain on our site,”

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“As an open platform, it’s crucial for us to allow everyone–from creators to journalists to late-night TV hosts–to express their opinions w/in the scope of our policies.

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In a series of replies to Maza, YouTube wrote that it had conducted an “in-depth review of the videos flagged to us” and came to a decision. The Google subsidiary’s initially refused to suspend Crowder’s channel. Newsweek wrote an article titled “Steven Crowder incites homophobic harassment of Vox reporter, YouTube slow to react.” The Vox-owned site The Verge breathlessly covered Maza’s outrage, and other publications echoed his complaints.

He implored LGBTQ supporters to bombard YouTube with complaints, leveraging “pride month” as a political weapon. In addition to demanding Crowder’s ban, Maza spent days on end whipping up outrage about his feelings. He distilled Crowder’s remarks down into a 90-second video clip showcasing words he found hurtful, leaving out context in order to convince YouTube to ban the right-leaning comic.Ĭrowder said Maza was “being given a free pass as a crappy writer because gay,” calling him a “lispy, angry sprite.” Maza, who goes by on Twitter, took umbrage with the criticism. In a series of videos over two-years, Crowder took aim at Maza’s leftist arguments with rebuttals sometimes interspersed with comedic remarks about Maza’s personality and sexual orientation. This follows two years of Crowder’s responding to Carlos Maza, a journalist and video producer at the diminutive media group. Crowder remarked that Carlos Maza was “being given a free pass as a crappy writer because gay,” called him a “lispy, angry sprite.”Įarlier this week, the left-leaning publication Vox went to great lengths to get YouTube to deplatform Crowder.