1/ Starting today and ramping up over the next few weeks, we will remove content that provides instructions for unsafe abortion methods or promotes false claims about abortion safety under our medical misinformation policies. https://t.co/P7A27WPYuD
— YouTubeInsider (@YouTubeInsider) July 21, 2022
2/ Like all of our policies on health/medical topics, we rely on published guidance from health authorities. We prioritize connecting people to content from authoritative sources on health topics, and we continuously review our policies & products as real world events unfold.
— YouTubeInsider (@YouTubeInsider) July 21, 2022
3/ We’re also launching an information panel that provides viewers with context and information from local and global health authorities under abortion-related videos and above relevant search results. pic.twitter.com/dGzEn4bIb8
— YouTubeInsider (@YouTubeInsider) July 21, 2022
Haha.
I didn’t even know there was “abortion misinformation.”
What is it? That abortion is bad? They’ve now classified moral stances as “misinformation.”
AP:
YouTube will begin removing misleading videos about abortion in response to falsehoods being spread about the procedure that is being banned or restricted across a broad swath of the U.S.
The move announced Thursday by the Google-owned video site comes about a month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the case that had protected the legality of abortion in the country for nearly 50 years.
YouTube said its crackdown will expunge content promoting unsafe at-home abortions, as well as misinformation about the safety of undergoing the procedure in clinics located in states where it remains legal.
The purge of misleading abortion videos will ramp up over the next few weeks, according to YouTube.
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Earlier this month, Google announced it will automatically purge information about users who visit abortion clinics or other places that could trigger legal problems in light of the Supreme Court’s court’s ruling.
Actually, The Science says abortion is good and you should have more abortions.
What really disgusts me is people like Keemstar who went along with this censorship.
If everyone would have said “nope, not doing it, go ahead and ban me,” then Elon Musk or Peter Thiel or someone would have started a real alternative in 2017.
It really is like that stupid “and first they came for” anti-Nazi poem.
Keemstar can suck a dick. I hope that faggot dies in a car crash.
The ominous gatekeepers of the Ministry of Truth are back.
— 💻𝓛𝓸𝓾𝓲𝓼⛪𝓚𝓾𝓱𝓮𝓵𝓳🇸🇮 (@LouisKuhelj) July 21, 2022
Youtube’s video removal process (regardless of topic) is INSANE. Most people do not realize how bad it is.
— Nameless (@Crypto_Fixation) July 21, 2022
Censorship is censorship… Orwellian fascist technocracy still in its formative time span … Check back in 10 yrs and witness what a free society does not look like
— TonyG (@TonyG2024) July 21, 2022
If you think this is good you’re part of the problem. Regardless of the idea, YT should not be the one who says what’s suitable for me to watch with how much visibility and control they have
— Alf (@Alf40917878) July 22, 2022
YouTube cracks down harder on free speech they don’t agree with.
— Nick (@nickv588) July 21, 2022
— Skylar (@JustchillinUc) July 21, 2022
Lol more biased fact checking
— Tim (@tiggertim12) July 21, 2022
Are they going to hide the truth about abortion now? Can you say that life begins at conception or nah? How about that abortion kills babies?
— 🪖Biden’sWW3🇷🇺 (@Rachal4GODsWord) July 21, 2022