YouTube is still restricting and demonetizing LGBT videos

Re:YouTube is still restricting and demonetizing LGBT videos by ButterflyWar on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:11PM (#17249524)

> We use machine learning to evaluate content against our advertiser guidelines.

This means Google violates civil rights law by maintaining a list of phrenological behavior based on racial, sexual, and demographic data.

Advertisers choosing videos to show up in also means selecting which videos to filter out. This means Google has a list of acceptable behavior for blacks, gays, and women to perform such filtering.

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Re:YouTube is still restricting and demonetizing LGBT videos by EpicEng on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:22PM (#17249634)

>This means Google violates civil rights law

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe sexual orientation is a protected class. Are there other statuses which would make this behavior illegal? Obviously IANAL and don't really know what I'm talking about here.

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Re:YouTube is still restricting and demonetizing LGBT videos by jrhurst on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:38PM (#17249816)

I think OPs jump in logic means if you can filter ads on sexual orientation then the same tooling can be use to attack protected classes.

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Re:YouTube is still restricting and demonetizing LGBT videos by EpicEng on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @04:00PM (#17250554)

Perhaps, though they are lumping in "sexual [orientation]" with race and gender. I also unaware of any cases of potential violations against a protected class.

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