YouTube Has Officially Jumped the Shark

I received this in the email today:

Happy 2020! We want to set you up for a great decade with our commitment to fighting harassment, insights on how to create more inclusive content on YouTube, and a great interview between Try Guy Eugene Lee Yang and YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki. Read on!

WHAT’S NEW

Standing up against harassment

We’re always working on making YouTube a safer place for creators and viewers, so we’ve updated our harassment policy, here are a few of the latest improvements:

• We’re taking a stronger stance on threats by removing indirect or implied threats of violence • Content that maliciously insults someone based on their race, gender expression or sexual orientation will not be tolerated or allowed • Repeated patterns of behavior that target individuals may result in removal from the YouTube Partner Program, video removal, or their account being terminated

LEARN MORE

An interview with Eugene Lee Yang of The Try Guys

Eugene Lee Yang from The Try Guys sat down with YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, and they discussed YouTube’s commitment to the LGBTQ+ community, kids content, and more.

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Create inclusive videos to reach more viewers

Representation in media matters – both in front of and behind the camera. It’s important to remember we all have unconscious bias, which can influence the people we choose to work with, the topics we cover, and which perspectives we include. So, dive into the course, take a look at this insightful video full of tips and learn how your YouTube channel can help foster diversity, equity, and inclusion.

CHECK IT OUT

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"Inclusion" and "diversity" are dirty words to me because they mean opposing views, including those stating biological fact, will be silenced.

WTF is wrong with this operator?

Basically political speech will be silenced if "feelings" are hurt.

More Miscellaneous News

I'm dysfunctional, you're dysfunctional: 1960s rock relic Donovan Leitch's family life was a mess, to say the least, but one of his daughters has helped to put the family back together.
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I am not surprised if the children do not testify in the Fritzl case.
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This innocuous YouTube video is at the heart of a copyright lawsuit.

A violation of copyright is just stupid here. One can barely hear the music.
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Things are pretty dire in this neck of the Woods.

Ronnie is supposedly in love with a 20-year-old cocktail waitress. He is a mere 61 years old:

"You never think you are going to lose your gorgeous girlfriend to a wrinkly old man – but that's exactly what happened." Ekaterina Ivanova's boyfriend Chris Kiely, 26, last week.

According to this article, she is a mere 18, and judging from the looks of the picture, doesn't look a day over 13.

She is not to be confused with the tennis player of the same name.

Don't tell me for one minute the money isn't a factor. It sure as hell isn't his looks or his personality.

Once again another high-profile wife has been humiliated.

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