'Being mean is lucrative': queer users condemn YouTube over homophobic content
by Kari Paul in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#4GRHM)
Site's waffling over harassment during Pride month was 'not surprising', YouTuber says
YouTube's haphazard response to an anti-gay harassment controversy this week underscores the company's continuing failure to protect creators from hate speech, queer users say.
The platform's initial refusal to discipline Steven Crowder for years of sustained anti-gay and racist harassment of Carlos Maza, a video journalist for the US news site Vox, drew widespread criticism.
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