Today YouTube sprung its updated harassment policy on creators which targets them with harsh punishments for “going too far” with jokes or creating content that “insults” someone based on “protected attributes.”
YouTube then started to apply this policy retroactively and removed several videos, some of which were more than three years old and had been compliant with YouTube’s policies when they were uploaded. The removed videos included comedy videos, political commentary videos, and the popular Leafy Content Cop video from iDubbbz.
And based on comments from YouTube’s chief product officer Neal Mohan, it seems that things are going to get even worse for creators in the coming months and the scale of the removals is likely to ramp up.
Mohan told Vox that YouTube is currently “going through an “incubation process” in which the company is training thousands of raters to more accurately identify speech that constitutes harassment under the new policies.”
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