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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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