(Yahoo) – YouTube announced Wednesday it would ban videos promoting or glorifying racism and discrimination as well as those denying well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting. The announcement by the Google-owned video-sharing platform was the latest of a series of tech industry moves to filter out hateful and violent content, which have spurred calls for tougher regulation. “YouTube has always had rules of the road, including a longstanding policy
against hate speech,” a company statement said. “Today, we’re taking another step in our hate speech policy by specifically prohibiting videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status.” The move comes after a call by world leaders in Paris last month to curb extremism online, following revelations about the live streaming of a mosque massacre in New Zealand. “We will begin enforcing this updated policy today; however, READ MORE
