YOUTUBE INTRODUCES NEW "GUIDE BLURS"

YouTube -- or "Kafka-Tube" as it should be known -- has introduced its latest raft of "guide blurs." 

A "guide blur," in case you didn't know, is a guide line that confuses people and makes things even more unclear, which is exactly what these new "rules" do. 

As reported by the BBC:

YouTube will no longer allow videos that "maliciously insult someone" based on "protected attributes" such as race, gender identity or sexuality.

The video-sharing platform will also ban "implied threats of violence" as part of its new harassment policy.

Got that? Clear as mud.

The new "guide blurs" stem from a spat between YouTuber Steven Crowder and Vox journalist Carlos Maza, who is gay. Maza claimed he was subjected to "homophobic" abuse by Crowder, including phrases like "lispy queer," "gay Vox sprite," and "gay Mexican" -- ouch! 

At the time YouTube said its rules had not been broken, but has now deleted many of the videos in question. 

"Even if a single video doesn't cross the line, with our new harassment policy we can take a pattern of behaviour into account for enforcement," Neal Mohan, chief product officer at YouTube, told the BBC.

"Pattern of behaviour"? Thanks for really nailing it down for us there, YouTube! That covers about everything that everybody has ever done...ever. 

These new rules -- or more accurately "areas of nebulous uncertainty" -- just increase the "eggshell factor," meaning that feeling that everybody on YouTube has, as if they are treading on eggshells whenever they anything remotely interesting.

Before these new "guide blurs" YouTube had already bans for videos that:

►contained explicit threats of violence
►bullied somebody about their appearance
►revealed somebody's personal information
►encouraged viewers to harass an individual

But the new policy also bans:

►"veiled" or implied threats of violence, such as saying "you better watch out"
►simulated violence towards an individual
►malicious insults based on protected attributes such as race, gender expression or sexual orientation

All of these "guide blurs" are undefined and obviously will be applied with a glaring Leftist, anti-male, anti-straight, and anti-White bias, especially when there is an election and the Left is getting crushed in arguments as usual. 

This is the callous use of corporate Leftist power to twist and distort the debate in Western countries and destroy our democracy.  

More from the BBC:

Mr Mohan told the BBC that individual complaints would have to be judged on a case-by-case basis, with the context of each video being taken into account. However, the new guidelines do say: "This is not a free pass to harass someone and claim, 'I was joking.'" Mr Mohan said YouTube had consulted with think tanks, video-makers, Google employees and other third parties to help inform its policy.

Would really like to see a list of those "third parties."

"We don't want YouTube to be a place where public discourse is getting stifled as a result of people having the fear of being harassed on our platform," Mohan told the BBC. "My view is that, on balance, having a strong framework around which we are protecting individuals from being harassed is important to ensure that our platform remains one where there can be robust debate."

LOL, that's hilarious because YouTube is now basically harassing almost all its content creators itself. 

No one on YouTube can be sure if they have said the "bad word" or not that will get their entire channel shut down.

Time to look for alternatives, everyone, and let YouTube become the next MySpace.

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