Maxine Waters has an affinity for anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan — but YouTube doesn’t want you to know that.
The video platform — which still plays host to bigoted screeds by the Nation of Islam leader and its newspaper, The Final Call — deleted a video posted in January by The American Mirror detailing the California congresswoman’s relationship with the Chicago reverend.
We just republished it on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/American_Mirror/status/1136334198883663873
We’ll see how long it stays up there.
Several months after the video was published — which merely featured the words of Farrakhan and Waters in their own voices — it was ban because it allegedly violated a ban on “Content glorifying violence against another person or group,” and/or one that does allow “content that encourages hatred of another person or group of people based on their membership in a protected group.”
It’s not clear why YouTube would continue to allow thousands of videos of Farrakhan’s speeches, but ban a video linking him to one of President Trump’s most obnoxious critics.
The video is a part of a campaign by YouTube to delete “hateful” content.
Yahoo reports:
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,” the company said in a statement.
“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.”
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