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CEO Susan Wojcicki Grilled on YouTube\u2019s Treatment of LGBTQ Community: \u2018Are You Really Sorry \u2026 or Are You Just Sorry They Were Offended?\u2019 \u2014 WATCH<\/b><\/p>\n

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At San Francisco\u2019s Code Con conference for hackers and techies on Monday night, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki was grilled by Axios reporter Ina Fried about the company\u2019s response after reporter Carlos Maza published a series of tweets which exposed a campaign of homophobic and racist harassment against him by right-wing commentator Steven Crowder<\/a> on the platform. <\/p>\n

After first announcing that Crowder\u2019s harassment did not violate YouTube policies, the platform grudgingly made a rule change<\/a>, but many remain dissatisfied, including Maza.<\/p>\n

Said a stumbling Wojcicki: \u201cI\u2019m really personally very sorry. It was not our intent. Our goal was\u2026YouTube has always been a home of so many LGBTQ creators and that\u2019s why it was so emotional and that\u2019s why I think this really\u2026even though it was a hard decision it was made harder that it came from us because we\u2019ve been such an important home, and even though we made this decision which I\u2019m going to get into a little more with your question\u2026but\u2026the same\u2026YouTube\u2026we\u2019ve so many people [on] YouTube from the LGBTQ community, and we\u2019ve always wanted to support the community in spite of this hard issue that we\u2019ve had right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m just saying people have gotten a lot of criticism, like \u2018why did you change your logo to rainbows even though you made this hard decision and that\u2019s because as a company we really want to support this community.,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt\u2019s just that from a policy standpoint we need to be consistent because if we, look, if we took down that content there would be so much other content that we would need to take down.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“Are you really sorry for anything that happened to the LGBTQ community? Or are you just sorry they were offended?”<\/p>\n

Watch @SusanWojcicki<\/a>‘s response at #CodeCon<\/a>: pic.twitter.com\/5MqJxL8QVS<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Recode (@Recode) June 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Wojcicki added: \u201cWe don\u2019t want to just be knee-jerk<\/a> we need to think about it in a very thoughtful way, be able to speak with everyone, we\u2019ll speak to people from the LGBTQ community, make sure we\u2019re incorporating that going forward in terms of how we think about harassment and make sure that we\u2019re implementing that in a fair and consistent way going forward. It was a hard week across the board and I am truly, truly sorry for the hurt that we caused that community. It was not our intention at all. Not that I want to take away from the hurt or the challenge of what happened this week but I do want to let you know that many of the changes that we made in the hate policy which is a different set of policies we think will be really beneficial for the LGBTQ community. And there are a lot of videos<\/a> there, and a lot of ways that community is attacked where we will be taking down those videos<\/a> going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.@YouTube<\/a> loves gay<\/a> people when we\u2019re dancing in their Pride videos<\/a> or feuding with each other over makeup.<\/p>\n

But if we want to talk about politics or philosophy or anything interesting, YouTube says we should expect to be harassed. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s not allyship. That\u2019s exploitation.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) June 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

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