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

Daddie said:
That I'm not directly talking about LBGT content being block and that children shouldn't look them up. If you specifically program your computer to cut down specific searches then I honestly don't see how a child can still look up "lesbian weddings" not that you mention a supervisor adult is next to them. When I made that comment awhile back mentioning how growing up I didn't have a problem with my sexuality because a lof of kids on the internet was "XD bisexual". I honestly thought the "XD" took it away because during my time, literally every kid was into being "bisexual" (that emo phrase, rawr dinosuar ****) and honestly still didn't know what being bisexual meant even if they went to a random definition site and gave you the term.
I agree that this content shouldn't be block from kids but I honestly think that them looking at information wouldn't still "help" them.
When you gave the example of a wedding, I honestly thought that they had to be "specific" with their search because that would still make them feel indifferent to the point that they have to look up something highly specific. "Is this normal?". When you mention the adult, that to me just show the the adult look it up, not the kid cause the kid honestly doesn't ****ing know. Even if their curioisity cave in, they still wouldn't know. If 8 year old me was conflicting their sexuality and a "supervision adult" decided to give me a article about sexualities, I would honestly be bored out of my ****ing mind. My whole inclination is that it's normal for anybody to love whatever. A wedding is a wedding. If two of my Aunts were to get married to their spouse, by the end of the day, it's a wedding. I would still have to wear a dress or a gown and be bored out of my mind while I can be home playing toys or whatever(still 8 year old me lmao).

But I think all we're doing is listing "experiences", and I honestly don't see the world as black and white tbh.
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not every kid is like that tho. like for me personally, the internet helped me find out things abt my gender and sexuality when i was 10 or 11. i didnt look up lesbian weddings on youtube but, like, anything that normalizes being lgbtq for kids is good and if i had seen lesbian weddings on my youtube front page i would have probably felt more "normal" for not identifying as straight. like, there's no reason to hide those videos except if you dont want kids to see things about lgbtq people. like, if youre going to be like "well but why would kids want to look at those videos" like Yeah Sure but why not put everything kids arent interested in under that filter? because people dont think kids looking at videos about taxes is inappropriate but apparently looking at videos of lgbtq people is.
this isnt a filter for schools to only let kids watch school stuff, it is to remove inappropriate content from being seen by kids. the problem imo isnt that kids cant look up wedding videos at school, it is that lgbtq youtubers and their videos are labelled as inappropriate.

forestyne: what
 
visibleghost said:
forestyne: what
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Thing is, if baby boomers keep blocking children's access to content normalising the LGBT community and being gay/bi/trans, you're gonna have kids growing up hating LGBT people, which will only cause us more grief and hatred in the future.
 
forestyne said:
"I went to her computer and her default search engine was Bing." dundundunnnn
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you vs the search engine she told you not to worry about

forestyne said:
Thing is, if baby boomers keep blocking children's access to content normalising the LGBT community and being gay/bi/trans, you're gonna have kids growing up hating LGBT people, which will only cause us more grief and hatred in the future.
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their goals are so utterly transparent

and to say nothing of how this stuff an open rejection of the freedom for children to explore their own sexual and gender identities as well
 
That is so, so wrong, we should be working to normalize LGBTQ+ (because after all, it's just love) and not showing it as something to be tabooed and blocked. Especially coming from such a big and influential platform as YouTube, this could be extremely damaging to some. This is a huge step backwards and is very disappointing imo. Seeing videos on YouTube and such supporting LGBTQ+ is one if the ways people (especially kids) can come to term with their identities and the identities of others and it needs to be something that is openly discussed, not restricted.
 
I'm really hurt by this. :'(

YouTube is a big platform which brings entertainment to billions of people so when it does something like this its basically saying "you're different so you aren't welcome here" to a large portion of members and viewers. Hopefully this is reversed because its already creating an outrage amongst the community and its just an opening for trolls to be disgusting human beings.

And to the people who say "maybe parents just don't want their kids to see these things" 1. Children should know that we are normal human beings. 2. What things? That's not helping us at all, we should be trying to normalize the LGBT+ community because we are normal people who have some differences which aren't harmful to anyone because we are normal people.
Its not like we shove our identities in your face, the only people doing that are you, you say "that's not normal, we are normal, you should be us" when you say and do things like that its making things worse and we will never achieve satisfaction and peace if you continue to say things like that and do things like what YouTube is doing.

I said what I felt like saying and this has annoyed me deeply, I thought YouTube was a place were you could express yourself but it clearly isn't.
 
well turns out restricted mode is also for anything sexual. and lgbt stuff is naturally of a sexual nature. i dont think youtube is deliberately targeting the lgbt community here
 
My school district blocked the word "babe" so, consequentially, you couldn't look up "Babe Ruth" because it would be blocked.
 
KarlaKGB said:
well turns out restricted mode is also for anything sexual. and lgbt stuff is naturally of a sexual nature. i dont think youtube is deliberately targeting the lgbt community here
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No It Is Not? if youre going to censor anything relate to lgbtq issues then censor every mention of straight love and cis ppl's gender. if they think that talking sexuality or gender identity is so Gosh Darn Inappropriate they have to censor cishets too. the lgbtq community is constantly oversexualized and while sex Obviously is a part of many lgbtq individuals lives it's not like being lgbtq is always centered around sex. lgbtq people talking about being in love with someone isnt nsfw sexy time it's someone talking about being in love.
 
KarlaKGB said:
well turns out restricted mode is also for anything sexual. and lgbt stuff is naturally of a sexual nature. i dont think youtube is deliberately targeting the lgbt community here
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Yes they are otherwise they wouldn't have done it?
It's not like all LGBT+ people are porn stars on YouTube?
 
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KarlaKGB said:
well turns out restricted mode is also for anything sexual. and lgbt stuff is naturally of a sexual nature. i dont think youtube is deliberately targeting the lgbt community here
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Heterosexual desires and love are still allowed. Gay people with completely normal sfw videos are/have been blocked by this filter. They were not even using the word "homosexual"
 
carp said:
yeah, it shouldnt, but companies having racist/sexist/homophobic policies isnt a new thing, and filtering the internet deffo isnt new
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It is for YouTube, who is supposed to be openly against hate acts/speech and pro LGBTQ+. Actions speak louder than words in this case.
 
Honestly if the videos are NSFW/gore/overly sexual they should be restricted, but that goes for any relationship type.

However it doesn't seem to be the case here. I disagree with it but I think a company can do what it wants. If this upsets you, write in to YouTube voicing your opinion, and stop using their services if they do something you don't like. Money talks.
 
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