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To be honest it's a business move lots of the LGBT Pro or Contra videos have a lot of say the least "controversial" comments on youtube.

• fdsafaew 8y ago
  You can justify any shitty thing by saying "It's just business." I think we all know it's a business move. Doesn't make it right. When Milton Friedman said "the business of business is business" or something to that effect, he was wrong.
  • cecja 8y ago
    You can. It is their business to satisfy their customers (advertisers) and the advertisers don't want to be seen in a political light or near hateful comments and trolls. It is totally understandable why they would do it.
    • fdsafaew 8y ago
      Totally understandable. If you have no sense of social responsibility. Edit: On second thought, you may have a point, and this is more nuanced than I thought. There are a lot of topics advertisers don't want to be associated with (violence or terrorism) and we expect youtube to filter these out. We don't expect the advertiser to filter these on their own. If you ask me, transgenderism is not anything like violence or terrorism, in terms of its controversy. But I realize some people disagree. I think it's impossible for youtube to accomplish this without having some kind of political stance. That would piss people off. But considering Google has already stated they are pro LGBT, you'd think they would avoid penalizing the transgender videos this way. Let advertisers filter out transgender videos on their own. There is no substitute for judgement, however. Youtube can't be impartial.
      • cecja 8y ago
        Yeah, it's so sad that an important topic like that is overrun by trolls.