Category: homophobia

Valve is allowing racist bots to invade ‘Team Fortress 2’

Post author By Randall
Post date June 5, 2020
Categories In bots, Gaming, homophobia, News, racism, sexism, steam, team fortress 2, Tech, tf2, transphobia, valve

[ad_1] Frustrated fans have been posting about the invasion in the TF2 Steam forums, and on Reddit, Twitter and YouTube. Valve, the company that created TF2 and Steam, has responded with silence. “I would describe it as disastrous,” longtime TF2 player Jason Hughes said. (His name has been changed to protect against targeted in-game attacks.) […]

Google will work with LGBTQ+ groups on harassment policies

Post author By Randall
Post date June 12, 2019
Categories In Apology, business, community, Email, gear, Google, harassment, homophobia, Internet, Lgbtq, policies, pride, sundar pichai, Tech, Videos, Youtube

[ad_1] Earlier this month, YouTube declined to remove videos of right-wing commentator Steven Crowder, even though they contain homophobic and racist speech targeted at Vox host Carlos Maza. YouTube claimed the videos were “clearly hurtful” but didn’t violate any of its policies. Understandably, YouTube was criticized for its decision. In his email, Pichai said he […]

YouTube declines to pull videos containing homophobic, racist attacks

Post author By Randall
Post date June 5, 2019
Categories In carlos maza, doxxing, gear, Google, harassment, hate, hate speech, homophobia, Internet, racism, services, steven crowder, streaming, Tech, Youtube

[ad_1] The service said it had conducted a review of the videos and said there was language that was “clearly hurtful,” but that there hadn’t been policy violations. In a response to Gizmodo, a Google spokesperson also claimed that Crowder was only “debating” Maza’s opinions, and was off the hook as he hadn’t directly “instructed” […]