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New YouTube policy tries to ban “implied” threats, “malicious” insults

Enlarge / Photoshopped image of YouTube logo behind a barbed-wire fence. (credit: YouTube / Getty / Aurich Lawson) YouTube has for a long time been used as a platform for bad actors to launch massive campaigns of targeted harassment against individuals. After years of professing inability to act and reduce such behavior, YouTube is finally updating its policies to reflect the ways bad actors actually tend to behave, and the site is promising to increase consequences against harassers. Content that "maliciously insults" someone based on their membership in a legally protected class, such as race, gender, or sexual orientation, is now against the rules, YouTube said in a blog post today.

 

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