YouTube Bans Sexual Humor, Profanity, Partial Nudity, Political Conflict, and 'Sensitive Subjects' I

[Blue_Adept]

Source: Reason.com

Here's the complete list of things now banned from YouTube content that's eligible for monetization:

Sexually suggestive content, including partial nudity and sexual humor
Violence, including display of serious injury and events related to violent extremism
Inappropriate language, including harassment, profanity and vulgar language
Promotion of drugs and regulated substances, including selling, use and abuse of such items
Controversial or sensitive subjects and events, including subjects related to war, political conflicts, natural disasters and tragedies, even if graphic imagery is not shown

YouTube warns that "If any of the above describes any portion of your video, then the video may not be approved for monetization. If monetization is approved, your video may not be eligible for all available ad formats. YouTube reserves the right to not monetize a video, as well as suspend monetization features on channels that repeatedly submit videos violating our policies."

Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/01/youtube-bans-sex-drugs-and-politics

[demmiblue]

1. Unrec. for source. n/t

[Cerridwen]

2. No they didn't. The guidelines are for "advertiser-friendly" content...

No they didn't. The guidelines are for "advertiser-friendly" content used to determine if your video(s) is qualified to be monetized.

I suggest finding a source other than reason.com. Say, for example, youtube's "advertiser-friendly guidelines."

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en

Content that is considered inappropriate for advertising

Content that is considered "not advertiser-friendly" includes, but is not limited to:

Sexually suggestive content, including partial nudity and sexual humor
Violence, including display of serious injury and events related to violent extremism
Inappropriate language, including harassment, profanity and vulgar language
Promotion of drugs and regulated substances, including selling, use and abuse of such items
Controversial or sensitive subjects and events, including subjects related to war, political conflicts, natural disasters and tragedies, even if graphic imagery is not shown

If any of the above describes any portion of your video, then the video may not be approved for monetization. If monetization is approved, your video may not be eligible for all available ad formats. YouTube reserves the right to not monetize a video, as well as suspend monetization features on channels that repeatedly submit videos violating our policies.

Apparently, you can post all that type of content you want; just don't expect google to pay you ad revenue for it.

[cstanleytech]

5. So the crackpot Benghazi conspiracy theorists can post

their bleating sheep hearts out still but YouTube isn't going to share any of the ad revenue with them? Sounds fair and if people don't like it they can just use someone else's site.

[Cerridwen]

7. I figure most of them will just create a twitch channel...

I figure most of them will just create a twitch channel for as long as they can get away with it. Or they'll stream on beam. Or they'll create a patreon or gofundme account to make their bucks off the rubes who don't think or can't read beyond a subject line. Just a little more "hard work" to fleece the marks.

[cstanleytech]

8. Would that be Jimmy "I have sinned" Swaggart style or Donald "Flip-Flop" Trump style?

[Cerridwen]

9. :) Both and then some. Please don't forget the limbaugh...

Both and then some. Please don't forget the limbaugh "I was just joking/I'm just an entertainer" style.

Or the pat "I'm a good christian being persecuted" robertson style.

And many, many others.

[cstanleytech]

12. Ya we might be here all night if we tried to list all the snake oil salesmen on Fox

and on right wing radio and thats not even counting the ones in print.

[Cerridwen]

15. Just one more then I promise I'll stop. :)

The remove all context and create click-bait headlines reason.com style. Of course, that style includes a shit-ton of online sources and outlets.

We could be here a lot longer than all night. LOL

Thanks for playing along. Have a great afternoon/evening/morning.

[PSPS]

3. Only applies to monetized content so the popular snuff channels are still OK, I guess.

[Warpy]

4. There goes 90% of their content

"Vulgar language?"

Oh, please.

[cstanleytech]

11. The ToS hasnt changed only the qualification to participate in earning some of the ad revenue from

Youtube has changed.

[LanternWaste]

19. Seems many people are unable to express themselves without it.

Seems many people are unable to express themselves without it. Sub-literacy is cool.

[Warpy]

24. Studies have shown the opposite

People with well developed potty mouths tend to be more articulate than those without.

I learned from an expert, my dad back in the days of coal central heating.

[Angel Martin]

22. I wonder if this will cover The Young Turks ?

Ans: Yup.
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/50n1pd/the_young_turks_now_have_over_500_videos/

[Xithras]

6. They aren't banning it. They're just not going to pay for it anymore.

FWIW, one of my sons makes a bit of money from a monetized YouTube channel and we were just talking about it this morning. Basically, when you monetize your videos, YouTube is paying you for content. YouTube is simply saying that they're no longer willing to pay for content that violates their standards. You can still post it, and it still shows up like any other video, but they'll no longer pay you for it. It's worth noting that they'll ALSO stop inserting ads into those videos, so they won't be making money off of them either.

Why the change? Because YouTube is tired of dealing with complaints from advertisers about their ads showing up in videos with "objectionable content", like a recent case where an ad for a Christian marriage counseling with the words "Keep Your Family Together" appeared in a video about staging interventions to help women escape domestic violence situations. They are also trying to eliminate accusations from ALL sides that they are profiting from objectionable material, and helping to fund extremist or violent viewpoints.

YouTube is basically saying, "You can still post the material, but nobody is going to profit from it anymore."

[TygrBright]

10. Good enough. Some things should be "free" speech, not "monetized" speech. n/t

[Yavin4]

13. First, YT is not the government. They're a private corp., and they can ban anything they want

Second, they're just saying that no monetization of certain videos, not an outright ban.

Finally, as long as I can get my cute kittehs videos, I'm good.

[Ken Burch]

14. The excerpt you posted just said You Tube won't let you "monetize" those things anymore.

You can still do violent, drug promoting, partially nude, politically controversial sexually suggestive clips about human tragedy and natural disasters...it's just that you might not clear a profit from them anymore.

And you can still do GoFundMe if that's a problem.

[christx30]

16. Does this mean I won't have to sit through

a commercial the next time I watch a 9/11 video?
I watch/download (thanks to an awesome and easy to use browser addon) a lot of documentaries to watch offline. It'd be nice to not have to deal with commercials.

[Taitertots]

17. YouTube is now under the thumb of the advertisers (big corporations)

It's time to find a new video sharing site. YouTube will become McPravda when no one gets paid to post non-corporate friendly content.

[Javaman]

18. so in other words, no more fail videos...

[Dreamer Tatum]

20. Just keep the nut shot ones and all's well. nt

[Yo_Mama]

21. Nothing left!!!! n/t

[Enrique]

23. where do cat videos fit in

that's all i care about

[Bradical79]

25. They'll have to wear pants -nt

[rocktivity]

26. Terrible news for law enforcement

How are they going to catch the self-snitchers?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110312000


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