YouTube to remove videos with white supremacy, neo-Nazi views
SAN FRANCISCO – YouTube updated its hate speech policies Wednesday to
prohibit videos with white supremacy and neo-Nazi viewpoints.
prohibit videos with white supremacy and neo-Nazi viewpoints.
The video streaming company says
it has already made it more difficult to find and promote such videos,
but it’s now removing them outright. YouTube will also prohibit videos
that deny certain proven events have taken place, such as the Holocaust.
The changes come as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other online
services face mounting concern that the services allow, and in some
cases foster , extremism.