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rocktivity

(44,572 posts)
Thu Mar 14, 2019, 11:00 AM Mar 2019

Disability Video Channel Censored by YouTube Out Of Fear of Online Predation

Last edited Sat Mar 16, 2019, 07:19 PM - Edit history (2)

...(A) vlogger discovered that YouTube’s algorithms enabled child predators to secretly connect across a series of videos with young girls engaged in everyday activities…(S)exualized comments about the girls (are) tagged with timestamps identifying moments when the kids were in certain poses…

(M)arketers...(have) suspend(ed) their advertising on YouTube...In addition to…disabling comments on videos with kids, YouTube reiterated that it had terminated certain channels for predatory behavior...(But) YouTube has massacred an innocent bystander in the process...

(It) has disabled all the comments of Special Books By Special Kids (SBSK)...video interviews of people of all ages and nationalities with physical and developmental conditions (that has) earned...more than a million YouTube subscribers...

More (including online petition)


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Disability Video Channel Censored by YouTube Out Of Fear of Online Predation (Original Post) rocktivity Mar 2019 OP
OMG....no SBSK? It's iconic! Kittycow Mar 2019 #1
YouTube-Censored Disability Commenters Fight Back with "#UnSilence SBSK" rocktivity Mar 2019 #2

Kittycow

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1. OMG....no SBSK? It's iconic!
Thu Mar 14, 2019, 11:20 AM
Mar 2019

Hope they get this straightened out soon... I imagine there's going to be an uproar

ETA:. I have learned so much about people and their challenges from that channel.

rocktivity

(44,572 posts)
2. YouTube-Censored Disability Commenters Fight Back with "#UnSilence SBSK"
Mon Mar 18, 2019, 12:53 PM
Mar 2019
...Chris Ulmer and Alyssa Porter have gone to the mattresses with an online petition, and declared a “love mob” war with a request to tweet #UnSilenceSBSK to these YouTube, Google, and advertiser execs with the same kind of tolerance and respect that the SBSK community show each other:

https://yourhhrsnews.com/save-sbsk-2/


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