YouTube Block LGBT+ Content with New "Restricted Mode" Feature

[-Apples-]

idk you can turn it on yourself to see what videos are blocked. i dont think theyve released any key words or how the restricted mode algorithm works. it sounds like it is mostly a filter for sexual content and violence so idk sbout politicsl issues

Well restricted mode might block racist videos at least. I hope it does block them. In fact, why would anyone upload that kind of video online anyway? Especially since race is a much hotter topic than LGBT. Always has, and always will.

But for the other political ones, I'm not so sure. I was only wondering because of its blocking of LGBT content. But hey, Youtube is considering on fixing this issue.

 

[DarkDesertFox]

When "right" is them just living their damn lives, no, it isn't a double standard. When "right" is them being an average human who also HAPPENS to be gay, no, it's not a double standard either. They aren't asking for people of different moral compasses to change what they feel, but to just not use their beliefs as a weapon/excuse to degrade others, which I see far too often from fellow Christians and conservatives in real life, versus lgbtq people in real life insulting others.

Just because the filter is being looked at now because people caused a ruckus, doesn't mean we can't discuss the underlying issue of why/how these things happen. No one is forcing Christians to put gays or lesbians or trans people on a pedestal, what people are saying is that *forcing* a blindfold over your child's eyes to LGBTQ+ community is in itself hateful and breeds ignorance because they literally block access to acquiring knowledge about it. I don't see non-religious folks blocking videos on religion or people trying to block kids from accessing information about Christians, a religion many are not a fan of.

People that are doing what you say they are and claim to be Christians are not following Jesus's words. You guys have to please understand that. I have gay friends, trans friends, bi friends. I don't persecute them for their decision. It's theirs, not mine. I just don't want to be forced to accept it as God's intention and that it's a "normal" thing. You can call me a bigot, a hater, oppressor, I don't really care. That's not what I am though. I just want to see people be saved like any other Christian should. Whether you believe in a Heaven or not, it's what we believe in. I'm not going to force you to accept my beliefs either. Someone has to be open and willing to accept God's word.

 

[Dogemon]

I'm mostly neutral about LGBT people, I don't mind their life style as long one doesn't go wanting to flirt with me.

However, I cannot accept the attitude of an heterophobe who is angry just because I don't like LGBT shipping, read mangas or watch videos featuring LGBT people.

After all heterophobes double themselves as homophobes and are not worth of anyone's time.

Nobody should be ever blamed for not wanting to watch these videos.

How do heterophobes double themselves as homophobes. Also once again, take your logic and think how "I don't mind black people as long as they don't hit on me and I don't have to watch videos of them" sounds???

You should be blamed if you are blocking OTHERS from being able to see videos of them if they are following guidelines correctly.

 

[forestyne]

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And while we're post merging, as I rant about overprotective parents, kids are going to hear and see things at school.

I don't think anything on YouTube could be more traumatising than our primary school's sex ed video (we were like 10) that had a family of fully naked people wandering about the house with Bowie's "ch- ch- ch- changes" song.

Christ. We watched a 70's 'pornographic film' and a woman giving birth, camera angle completely head-on into the abyss. I am still scarred.


There's always gonna be young kids who see things on the internet or hear it from their parents and then talk about it at school. That's how I learnt about my period (the joys of living with a single father) and ''sinners'' according to the Americans, aka gay people. Even though my parents never told me about being gay or bisexual, or told me it was wrong or gross, I still realised that gay people are still human. And you can only shelter your superior race children into being cis straight people before they grow up and see the world.

 

[keef_kogane]

I'm mostly neutral about LGBT people, I don't mind their life style as long one doesn't go wanting to flirt with me.

However, I cannot accept the attitude of an heterophobe who is angry just because I don't like LGBT shipping, read mangas or watch videos featuring LGBT people.

After all heterophobes double themselves as homophobes and are not worth of anyone's time.

Nobody should be ever blamed for not wanting to watch these videos.

I have seen so many straight people say this and it's just baffling to think that there are people out there, like you, that think the world revolves around them and that every gay person will automatically think you're hot **** and want to flirt with you. It doesn't work like that. In fact, most LGBT+ people are quite cautious when it comes to flirting.

 

[forestyne]

I'm mostly neutral about LGBT people, I don't mind their life style as long one doesn't go wanting to flirt with me.

However, I cannot accept the attitude of an heterophobe who is angry just because I don't like LGBT shipping, read mangas or watch videos featuring LGBT people.

After all heterophobes double themselves as homophobes and are not worth of anyone's time.

Nobody should be ever blamed for not wanting to watch these videos.

Translated for the normal minds:

I don't mind homosexual people in my locker rooms, but if they look at me in a certain way or try to make a move I will gather a gang of other straight white males, beat him to a pulp and leave him for dead.

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I have seen so many straight people say this and it's just baffling to think that there are people out there, like you, that think the world revolves around them and that every gay person will automatically think you're hot **** and want to flirt with you. It doesn't work like that. In fact, most LGBT+ people are quite cautious when it comes to flirting.

Before I even try to flirt I make it clear that I'm bi, or wait for them to make a move because I'm too socially awkward to do anything.

Like I said before, we aren't all sexual deviants. No 6-inch acrylics here

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People that are doing what you say they are and claim to be Christians are not following Jesus's words. You guys have to please understand that. I have gay friends, trans friends, bi friends. I don't persecute them for their decision. It's theirs, not mine. I just don't want to be forced to accept it as God's intention and that it's a "normal" thing. You can call me a bigot, a hater, oppressor, I don't really care. That's not what I am though. I just want to see people be saved like any other Christian should. Whether you believe in a Heaven or not, it's what we believe in. I'm not going to force you to accept my beliefs either. Someone has to be open and willing to accept God's word.

Being gay isn't a decision. And why would you have LGBT friends if you thought that way? I, for one, wouldn't want to be friends with someone who suppressed, abhorred and detested my existence because of some book. Believe what you want, but how can you have gay and trans friends if you hate their existence so much?

Homo/transphobes tend to pull the "I have LGBT friends" card too often. Do you have any cards left?

 

[Bowie]

"I'm not racist, I have black friends!"

 

[visibleghost]

People that are doing what you say they are and claim to be Christians are not following Jesus's words. You guys have to please understand that. I have gay friends, trans friends, bi friends. I don't persecute them for their decision. It's theirs, not mine. I just don't want to be forced to accept it as God's intention and that it's a "normal" thing. You can call me a bigot, a hater, oppressor, I don't really care. That's not what I am though. I just want to see people be saved like any other Christian should. Whether you believe in a Heaven or not, it's what we believe in. I'm not going to force you to accept my beliefs either. Someone has to be open and willing to accept God's word.

cool but you Are a bigot if you cant accept lgbtq people as normal lmao Pls
if you feel Personally Attacked when youre called out on being oppressive and bigoted youre rly ,. not Great .

I'm mostly neutral about LGBT people, I don't mind their life style as long one doesn't go wanting to flirt with me.

However, I cannot accept the attitude of an heterophobe who is angry just because I don't like LGBT shipping, read mangas or watch videos featuring LGBT people.

After all heterophobes double themselves as homophobes and are not worth of anyone's time.

Nobody should be ever blamed for not wanting to watch these videos.

afbbnfvfvdsfjkkyrsvbdss i want to Die are u for real ? . where are these heterophobes. did they come in another bus together with the down with cis bus?

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also the thing about "as long as they dont flirt with me xD" lol dont worry anyone who says that is automatically ugly like full offense but gay people probably dont want to flirt with homophobes so Yeah

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Translated for the normal minds:

I don't mind homosexual people in my locker rooms, but if they look at me in a certain way or try to make a move I will gather a gang of other straight white males, beat him to a pulp and leave him for dead.

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Before I even try to flirt I make it clear that I'm bi, or wait for them to make a move because I'm too socially awkward to do anything.

Like I said before, we aren't all sexual deviants. No 6-inch acrylics here

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Being gay isn't a decision. And why would you have LGBT friends if you thought that way? I, for one, wouldn't want to be friends with someone who suppressed, abhorred and detested my existence because of some book. Believe what you want, but how can you have gay and trans friends if you hate their existence so much?

Homo/transphobes tend to pull the "I have LGBT friends" card too often. Do you have any cards left?

HahaHhHah the first part sounds like the violent homophobes and transphobesin my last school :')) when we were taught about lgbtq (well it was only Homosexual Bisexual Transsexual and the Normal, Heterosexual) some boys spent over 15 minutes talking about how they would beat any guy who flirted with them HaHaHa then they said that if any of their friends cane out as lgbtq theyd try to Cure them from the evil disease :')

 

[forestyne]

"I'm not racist, I have black friends!"

"I don't mind black people, I have black friends, but I don't want to be forced to accept it as a "normal" thing.."

 

[fenris]

People that are doing what you say they are and claim to be Christians are not following Jesus's words. You guys have to please understand that. I have gay friends, trans friends, bi friends. I don't persecute them for their decision. It's theirs, not mine. I just don't want to be forced to accept it as God's intention and that it's a "normal" thing. You can call me a bigot, a hater, oppressor, I don't really care. That's not what I am though. I just want to see people be saved like any other Christian should. Whether you believe in a Heaven or not, it's what we believe in. I'm not going to force you to accept my beliefs either. Someone has to be open and willing to accept God's word.

dude, how can you call these people your friends and say things like that about them?

also, being LGBT isn't a decision. I definitely wouldn't have chosen to be trans, especially not living in Mississippi, right on the buckle of the Bible Belt... do you know what it's like when so many people around you are convinced that you deserve to go to hell because you're different? do you know what it's like to grow up feeling wrong and disgusting and having no idea why, because your schools never discuss LGBT-related matters, so you don't even learn what a trans person is until you're 18 and meet a trans guy on the internet, and finally realize in your 20s that you're trans yourself? do you know what it's like having to pretend to be someone you're not, to stay in the closet and be misgendered constantly because the alternative is risking being murdered or worse?

it's not a life anyone would choose.

 

[forestyne]

Imagine if God or the crazy stoner who wrote the bible didn't realise they left the "man shall not lie with another man" line in the book and he's now rolling in Heaven/his grave and kicking himself like

SHOULD'VE GONE TO SPECSAVERS​

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dude, how can you call these people your friends and say things like that about them?

also, being LGBT isn't a decision. I definitely wouldn't have chosen to be trans, especially not living in Mississippi, right on the buckle of the Bible Belt... do you know what it's like when so many people around you are convinced that you deserve to go to hell because you're different? do you know what it's like to grow up feeling wrong and disgusting and having no idea why, because your schools never discuss LGBT-related matters, so you don't even learn what a trans person is until you're 18 and meet a trans guy on the internet, and finally realize in your 20s that you're trans yourself? do you know what it's like having to pretend to be someone you're not, to stay in the closet and be misgendered constantly because the alternative is risking being murdered or worse?

it's not a life anyone would choose.

This is where the "I have LGBT friends" card backfires, because nobody would ever say that about their friends' life choices. If I had to guess, these LGBT friends do not exist, because nobody would ever be friends with someone who despises their existence and wants to "free them" from their """"deadly disease""""

 

[DarkDesertFox]

dude, how can you call these people your friends and say things like that about them?

also, being LGBT isn't a decision. I definitely wouldn't have chosen to be trans, especially not living in Mississippi, right on the buckle of the Bible Belt... do you know what it's like when so many people around you are convinced that you deserve to go to hell because you're different? do you know what it's like to grow up feeling wrong and disgusting and having no idea why, because your schools never discuss LGBT-related matters, so you don't even learn what a trans person is until you're 18 and meet a trans guy on the internet, and finally realize in your 20s that you're trans yourself? do you know what it's like having to pretend to be someone you're not, to stay in the closet and be misgendered constantly because the alternative is risking being murdered or worse?

it's not a life anyone would choose.

Honestly, I've said all I really needed to say. I don't expect everyone to be on the same page I am. I don't really want to go deeper on this at the risk of igniting flames. All I can say is that I'm sorry if Christians have made you feel that way. That's not what Jesus taught us to do. I don't know what that's like and I'm not going to pretend I do. It's a difficult world we live in.

 

[Dogemon]

This is where the "I have LGBT friends" card backfires, because nobody would ever say that about their friends' life choices. If I had to guess, these LGBT friends do not exist, because nobody would ever be friends with someone who despises their existence and wants to "free them" from their """"deadly disease""""

Or he isn't honest/open about how he feels to them. I was actually surprised considering how I have seen him talk to trans/gay/lesbian people before. I'm sure they would be none too happy if he actually did talk about how he feels their 'lifestyle' is wrong.

 

[Bowie]

I would never have chosen to be gay if I had known I was going to be persecuted by people like that. Told that what I am is a disease, and that it is wrong for me to feel and give love because a magic man in the sky is going to burn me for it. People with that philosophy deserve to have the tables turned on them and see how they like it. I don't need a cure and I certainly don't need "friends" who tell me that my "decision" is "sinful".

 

[DarkDesertFox]

This is where the "I have LGBT friends" card backfires, because nobody would ever say that about their friends' life choices. If I had to guess, these LGBT friends do not exist, because nobody would ever be friends with someone who despises their existence and wants to "free them" from their """"deadly disease""""

Honestly, I don't care if you believe me or not. I don't even know what I said was wrong. I said I'm okay with their choices. There is a lot of negative responses, but that's to be expected.

 

[Bowie]

Honestly, I don't care if you believe me or not. I don't even know what I said was wrong. I said I'm okay with their choices. There is a lot of negative responses, but that's to be expected.

It's not a choice. That's the problem with what you're saying.

 

[Red Cat]

People that are doing what you say they are and claim to be Christians are not following Jesus's words. You guys have to please understand that. I have gay friends, trans friends, bi friends. I don't persecute them for their decision. It's theirs, not mine. I just don't want to be forced to accept it as God's intention and that it's a "normal" thing. You can call me a bigot, a hater, oppressor, I don't really care. That's not what I am though. I just want to see people be saved like any other Christian should. Whether you believe in a Heaven or not, it's what we believe in. I'm not going to force you to accept my beliefs either. Someone has to be open and willing to accept God's word.

I have Christian friends. I don't persecute them for their decision. It's theirs, not mine. I just don't want to be forced to accept that believing in a god is a "normal" thing. You can call me a bigot, a hater, oppressor, I don't really care. That's not what I am though. I just want to see people be saved from their own ignorance like any other atheist should. Whether you believe it's all just a fictional story or not, it's what we believe in. I'm not going to force you to accept my beliefs either. Someone has to be open and willing to accept that all religion is fake and pretentious and teaches people to hate each other.

 

[Dogemon]

I would never have chosen to be gay if I had known I was going to be persecuted by people like that. Told that what I am is a disease, and that it is wrong for me to feel and give love because a magic man in the sky is going to burn me for it. People with that philosophy deserve to have the tables turned on them and see how they like it. I don't need a cure and I certainly don't need "friends" who tell me that my "decision" is "sinful".

Agreed. Honestly I think more people should realize it would be more of a "cure" to toss out religion, considering gay people existing has never started a war, just saying. I'm able to keep my own religious beliefs in check and not let it affect how I view or treat others. Then again I don't think homosexuality is a sin, considering it is proven to not be a choice and hardwired into the brain from birth.

 

[forestyne]

Honestly, I don't care if you believe me or not. I don't even know what I said was wrong. I said I'm okay with their choices. There is a lot of negative responses, but that's to be expected.

But you can't like someone/something that you hate.

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Or he isn't honest/open about how he feels to them. I was actually surprised considering how I have seen him talk to trans/gay/lesbian people before. I'm sure they would be none too happy if he actually did talk about how he feels their 'lifestyle' is wrong.

But that is a fake friend and they are the worst. WORSTTYPEOFFRIEND.COM. Nobody should have to be cursed with people who secretly hate you and everything that you were from birth, but pretends to like you and understand your struggles and tells you that you are normal and okay. Nobody deserves friends like that.

 

[Bowie]

Imagine having a friend who talked behind your back like that, about such an integral, personal part of you? That would really make me feel sick.