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LGBTQ Censorship on YouTube
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2. Background
◈ In 2010, YouTube introduced “restricted mode” for parents,
teachers, and librarians to monitor their children’s content
consumption
◈ Some YouTube content creators began noticing that their
videos were being hidden in restricted mode, especially
videos from creators in the LGBTQ community
◈ Coming out, surgery, advice, and day in the life videos were
just some of the topics from LGBTQ creators that were
blocked in restricted mode
3. Research Questions
◈ What is considered “inappropriate” and who gets to define
it?
◈ How does bullshit (as defined by Frankfurt) surrounding the
LGBTQ community affect the infrastructure of platforms
such as YouTube?
◈ How does bullshit intersect with other issues, such as race
and sex?
◈ Does this intersection cause increased censorship or
discrimination for certain subsets of the community over
others?
4. Methods
◈ “Data Humanities”
◈ Self-reporting and commentary on Twitter
◈ No access to YouTube data due to API limitations
9. Findings
◈ Of scraped accounts, transgender creators were the most
vocal about censorship in YouTube’s restricted mode
◈ Gay, white, male YouTubers self-reported the least
censorship and tweeted the least about the subject overall
◈ Generally, the less subscribers a YouTube creator had, the
more vocal they were about their experience
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11. “
“Much like homonormativity (Kennedy, 2014),
proto-homonormativity evokes a particular raced and
classed subject. It addresses white, able-bodied,
financially-secure queers… whose identities do not
intersect with other vectors of oppression, so that their
only barrier to self-realisation is constructed as their
personal relationships with their sexuality.”
- Michael Lovelock, 2017
12. Conclusions
◈ For many members of the LGBTQ community, experiences with sex, violence,
and discrimination are quintessential parts of their experiences
◈ These experiences are, albeit likely inadvertently, targeted by YouTube and
its restricted mode
◈ However, by “othering” and censoring creators who do not fit into the ideal,
family-friendly, “acceptable queer experience”, LGBTQ youth receive a
dishonest view of the community, its history, and the future indignities they
can expect to face in their own coming out journeys
