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YouTube has banned some prominent white supremacist channels as internet companies face a backlash over racist content.
The Google-owned video platform said the channels had violated its
policies that prohibit hate speech.
In recent days social media companies have been been boycotted by a number
of major advertisers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53230986
On Monday Ford joined a growing list of global brands that are pausing
social media advertising during July.
In a statement YouTube said: “We have strict policies prohibiting hate
speech on YouTube, and terminate any channel that repeatedly or
egregiously violates those policies.”
"After updating our guidelines to better address supremacist content, we
saw a 5x spike in video removals and have terminated over 25,000 channels
for violating our hate speech policies,” it added.
The channels that have been banned include some of the internet's most high-profile far-right commentators:
Stefan Molyneux is a Canadian white nationalist activist known for his promotion of conspiracy theories.
Richard Spencer is US white supremacist credited with coining the term "alt-right".
David Duke is the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
On Twitter Mr Molyneux described his channel's suspension as an "egregious error".
Also on Twitter, Mr Spencer said that he would appeal the decision and
called the suspension a "systemic coordinated effort."
Separately, Amazon's live video streaming site, Twitch has temporarily
banned US President Donald Trump, citing “hateful conduct” in his posts.
The company pointed to comments made at two rallies for the suspension.
At a 2016 campaign rally, which was recently rebroadcast on Twitch, Mr
Trump said that Mexico was sending over its bad actors, such as rapists or
drug dealers.
It also highlighted the president's rally in Tulsa earlier this month, at
which he told a fictional story about a home invasion by a "tough hombre". Momentum growing
Meanwhile, social media site Reddit has shut down r/The_Donald, a forum
which has long been a popular online home for Donald Trump supporters,
saying that it violated the platform's hate speech rules.
Also on Monday, carmaker Ford became one of the latest global brands to announce that it would halt social media advertising spending for the
month of July.
It joins other household names, including Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Diageo and Unilever, that have said that they will suspend advertising from some
social media platforms in response to hate speech.
The announcements follow the launch earlier this month of the Stop Hate
For Profit campaign, which described itself as a "response to Facebook's
long history of allowing racist, violent and verifiably false content to
run rampant on its platform".
Responding to the campaign Facebook said: "We're taking steps to review
our policies, ensure diversity and transparency when making decisions on
how we apply our policies, and advance racial justice and voter engagement
on our platform."
### - well NOW we's startin' to get somewhere and see some REAL progress
at last hah!
finally getting rid of all these hateful bastards and forcing them back underground where they belong sheesh! to even 'imagine' someone like the
kkk are allowed to publish their shit on youtube is unconscionable ffs!?
they don't allow isis on there so why these cunts!? these obviously
utterly insane fuckers are just too crazy to be allowed to be left
wandering around doing whatever they fuckin' like??
imho, all such nutjobs should be identified, tagged AND locked up for
public safety!
coz you can't possibly trust these cunts to behave themselves??? they's planning & plotting ALL the time to do harm to people if not to society
itself! plus isn't it about time we just called them what they really are
and have been all along?
fucking armed terrorists in the employ of the rightwing!
and then throw all their fat ugly asses into guantanamo bay!
where daily it's: cavity searches for everyone! - yaaay!
only they'd prolly like that a bit too much though coz they's all latent
gays anyway heh :)))
imho the world wouldn't miss them one iota?
instead it would be gud-riddance to such garbage! :D
"whoo-hoo! i just felt the world get lighter! put on the hammer records,
am ready to dance!" --bill hicks haha ;)
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