![]() ![]() Today, YouTube decided that none of this violated their terms of service: /UReCcQ2Elj I have spent two years getting targeted by racist and homophobic abuse from one of star creators. “Our teams spent the last few days conducting an in-depth review of the videos flagged to us, and while we found language that was clearly hurtful, the videos as posted don’t violate our policies. We take allegations of harassment very seriously–we know this is important and impacts a lot of people. YouTube said: “Thanks again for taking the time to share all of this information with us. ![]() However, in a public statement on Tuesday (June 4), the company said that the comments do not violate its guidelines on hate speech. Anti-gay abuse ‘doesn’t violate YouTube policies’ The Google-owned video platform was spurred to review the issue after Maza publicly complained about the abuse he had received from Crowder and his followers. In some of the videos, Crowder can be seen wearing a t-shirt bearing the slogan “socialism is for f*gs,” which he also sells online. In YouTube videos spanning several years, Crowder has attacked Maza as a “lispy queer,” a “little queer” and a “gay Mexican” in his videos on the website, using racist and homophobic epithets. YouTube has insisted that a right-wing creator who targeted a Vox journalist with anti-gay abuse did not violate the website’s hate speech policies.Ĭarlos Maza, who appears in news site Vox’s video content, had complained publicly about persistent abuse from Steven Crowder, a right-wing YouTuber with 3.8 million subscribers. ![]()
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