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YouTube has "clarified" their policies on restricting content creator's ad income depending on the content they upload

posted by PMYA on Whatever

Hateful content: Content that promotes discrimination or disparages or humiliates an individual or group of people on the basis of the individual’s or group’s race, ethnicity, or ethnic origin, nationality, religion, disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristic associated with systematic discrimination or marginalization.
Inappropriate use of family entertainment characters: Content that depicts family entertainment characters engaged in violent, sexual, vile, or otherwise inappropriate behavior, even if done for comedic or satirical purposes.
Incendiary and demeaning content: Content that is gratuitously incendiary, inflammatory, or demeaning. For example, video content that uses gratuitously disrespectful language that shames or insults an individual or group.

How the fuck can this even be considered clarification? The criteria is so broad, it basically means whatever they want it to mean. If I make an hour long video, but call @Polsaker a cunt at the 45 minute mark, will I lose all of my ad money because I am being hateful towards Argentinians?

[Post is here.](https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2017/06/your-content-and-making-money-from.html) - Hateful content: Content that promotes discrimination or disparages or humiliates an individual or group of people on the basis of the individual’s or group’s race, ethnicity, or ethnic origin, nationality, religion, disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristic associated with systematic discrimination or marginalization. - Inappropriate use of family entertainment characters: Content that depicts family entertainment characters engaged in violent, sexual, vile, or otherwise inappropriate behavior, even if done for comedic or satirical purposes. - Incendiary and demeaning content: Content that is gratuitously incendiary, inflammatory, or demeaning. For example, video content that uses gratuitously disrespectful language that shames or insults an individual or group. How the fuck can this even be considered clarification? The criteria is so broad, it basically means whatever they want it to mean. If I make an hour long video, but call @Polsaker a cunt at the 45 minute mark, will I lose all of my ad money because I am being hateful towards Argentinians?

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[–] phoxy 1 points (+1|-0)

Edited

As it has ever been: if you want to spread your message don't become dependent on someone else's platform.

You give up editorial control when you rely on existing platforms and media channels. Those platforms are interested in promoting themselves: attracting you, the content creator, is how they do it. They don't care about your message.

A quote from Ted Carpenter in 1970, in the foreword to They Became What They Beheld:

Utilizing existing channels can wipe out a statement. There is a widely accepted misconception that media merely serve as neutral packages for the dissemination of raw facts. Photographers once thought that by getting their photographs published in Life, they would thereby reach large audiences. Gradually they discovered that the only message that came through was Life magazine itself and that their pictures had become but bits & pieces of that message.

The same thing occurs on TV guest shows. Guests accept invitations to appear on programs in the hopes that their messages will reach new & wider audiences, but even when they are treated in a friendly manner, they come away with a sense of failure. Somehow the message transmitted is far removed from the messages intended.