New YouTube policy tries to ban “implied” threats, “malicious” insults
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/new-youtube-policy-tries-to-ban-implied-threats-malicious-insults/
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.
New YouTube policy tries to ban “implied” threats, “malicious” insults
Dec 11, 2019, 8:36pm UTC
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/new-youtube-policy-tries-to-ban-implied-threats-malicious-insults/
> 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.