Category: steven crowder

Employees can protest YouTube, just not near its Pride float

Post author By Randall
Post date June 25, 2019
Categories In anti-harassment, business, carlos maza, gaygler, Google, Politics, san francisco pride, steven crowder, Tech, tomorrow, Youtube

[ad_1] Some Google employees are planning to protest YouTube’s muted reaction to conservative commentator Steven Crowder’s harassment of LGBT journalist Carlos Maza. By itself, criticizing Google publically is not a violation of the company’s code of conduct. In the case of the Pride Parade, employees who hoped to protest Google or YouTube were warned that […]

Why isn’t YouTube held accountable for the actions of its stars?

Post author By Randall
Post date June 6, 2019
Categories In carlos maza, demonetization, gear, Internet, right wing, steven crowder, Tech, Youtube

[ad_1] Why are we talking about this? When aren’t we talking about how social media seems to amplify bad actors, and refuses to punish them when called out? Why are we talking about this right now? Oh, right. Carlos Maza is the host of Vox‘s YouTube series Strikethrough, which covers how the media operates in […]

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” […]