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YouTube Will Ban Videos That Insult People Based On Race, Gender, Or Sexual Orientation | Buzzfeed News

A new harassment policy will see videos that “maliciously insult” people based on their race, gender, or sexual orientation banned from YouTube after the company faced intense backlash around the right-wing comedian Steven Crowder’s targeting of gay Latino journalist Carlos Maza.

YouTube announced the new guidelines on Wednesday. Some of Crowder’s videos that targeted Maza will also be removed from the platform.

Maza highlighted the harassment in a series of tweets which subsequently went viral in May this year. One tweet was a video supercut of instances where he’d been called, among other things, a “lispy queer”, “anchor baby”, “the gay sprite from Vox” on Crowder’s “Louder with Crowder” YouTube show. At the time, YouTube said the language was “hurtful” but ultimately didn’t violate the company’s policies.

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