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This could cover a lot of stuff, almost anything can be considered controversial. There might be some big channels getting hit with this, which will kick up a shitstorm.
It basically means anything by h3h3productions is likely not going to be monetisable, since they do investigative reporting about Youtube 'celebrities'.
Political conflicts is vague, but could easily mean everything like the recent US elections, black lives matter, the recently finished EU referendum, etc. So no news sites monetising political coverage then.
And war... well, better not cover the situation in Syria then, because apparently advertisers don't want to be associated with war correspondants and people reporting on events in a war zone.
Tragedies? Okay, guess no one's gonna be discussing crimes or attacks on Youtube in the future. Great way to shut down amateur journalists reporting on things like say, the recent events in France.
Harassment could easily be exploited for anything discussing Feminist Frequency, GamerGate, that Korean GamerGate thing, the Alison Rapp firing, etc.
Violence I worry could easily be applied to games, TV shows, films, etc. Which means few reviews of M rated games like say, Call of Duty. Or Hatred, Manhunt, Mad World, Five Nights at Freddy's...
Inappropriate language can easily mean... well, anyone swearing in a review or Let's Play. Poor Angry Video Game Nerd.
Let's be honest, here, given the way YT/Google has been going lately, what with hiding search results for $hillary's health and whatnot, we all know that the only people that are going to be penalized by these new policies are those that go against the "progressive", feel-good narrative.
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[–] YoungerX 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
This could cover a lot of stuff, almost anything can be considered controversial. There might be some big channels getting hit with this, which will kick up a shitstorm.
[–] CM30 [S] 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
It basically means anything by h3h3productions is likely not going to be monetisable, since they do investigative reporting about Youtube 'celebrities'.
Political conflicts is vague, but could easily mean everything like the recent US elections, black lives matter, the recently finished EU referendum, etc. So no news sites monetising political coverage then.
And war... well, better not cover the situation in Syria then, because apparently advertisers don't want to be associated with war correspondants and people reporting on events in a war zone.
Tragedies? Okay, guess no one's gonna be discussing crimes or attacks on Youtube in the future. Great way to shut down amateur journalists reporting on things like say, the recent events in France.
Harassment could easily be exploited for anything discussing Feminist Frequency, GamerGate, that Korean GamerGate thing, the Alison Rapp firing, etc.
Violence I worry could easily be applied to games, TV shows, films, etc. Which means few reviews of M rated games like say, Call of Duty. Or Hatred, Manhunt, Mad World, Five Nights at Freddy's...
Inappropriate language can easily mean... well, anyone swearing in a review or Let's Play. Poor Angry Video Game Nerd.
So yeah, lots of stuff.
[–] CrazyInAnInsaneWorld 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Let's be honest, here, given the way YT/Google has been going lately, what with hiding search results for $hillary's health and whatnot, we all know that the only people that are going to be penalized by these new policies are those that go against the "progressive", feel-good narrative.
[–] CM30 [S] ago
Well, I've gone into a bit more detail on this here:
https://medium.com/@CM30/why-youtubes-advertiser-friendly-guidelines-are-a-bad-idea-760b173949ea
Either way, if they don't change this, they will alienate about 99% of the people that make them money. This is business suicide.