YouTube Says It Will Remove Videos Showing Abortion Misinformation - The company will also feature an information tab featuring medical experts on abortion-related searches.

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YouTube said it will take down videos that show unsafe methods of abortion or otherwise promote false information about the procedure.

“Starting today and ramping up over the next few weeks, we will remove content that provides instructions for unsafe abortion methods or promotes false claims about abortion safety under our medical misinformation policies,” the company wrote in a tweet Thursday.

The policy follows last month’s Supreme Court ruling which overturned Roe v. Wade, the ruling that provided a constitutional right to abortion, and subsequently led to several states outlawing the procedure.

YouTube said it will take the video as part of its policy to “prioritize connecting people to content from authoritative sources on health topics.” The company already has an existing misinformation policy, which prohibits “certain types of misleading or deceptive content with serious risk of egregious harm.”

This includes “harmful remedies or treatments, certain types of technically manipulated content, or content interfering with democratic process,” as well as content that “contradicts local health authorities’ or WHO guidance on certain safe medical practices.”

In addition to removing videos, the company said it will also launch an information panel featuring local and global health figures under abortion-related videos and above related search results. “Like all of our policies on health/medical topics, we rely on published guidance from health authorities. We prioritize connecting people to content from authoritative sources on health topics, and we continuously review our policies & products as real-world events unfold,” YouTube stated.


Earlier this month, Google, also owned by YouTube’s parent, Alphabet, said that it would quickly delete the location history for individuals searching on Google for abortion and other reproductive-health-related queries. Alphabet, which also owns fitness and health tracker Fitbit, also said it would allow users to delete records on the app logging their menstrual cycles.

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[MrJokerRager]

So those clanking metal coat hanger ASMR videos and coat hanger quality review videos are being shoahed.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

So glad I have blocktube and can just pick this overdone platform with ublock origin.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

BUT POST ALL THE LIVE ANIMAL FEEDING YOU WANT GUIZ

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

false information about the procedure.

I can picture a youtube video saying "8 month old fetus are humans" followed by a disclaimer underneath saying it is deboonked by some French philosopher, who coincidentally is wanted for molesting children, that claims that until a child is 2 years old he is no more sentient than a banana

 

[AnotherPleb]

Is Google an arm of the Left, or is the Left an arm of Google?

 

[Dan Abrams]

Cool, will the front page of YouTube be nothing but abortion "facts" like how it was all vaccine "facts" a year ago?

 

[AnotherPleb]

Cool, will the front page of YouTube be nothing but abortion "facts" like how it was all vaccine "facts" a year ago?

And monkeypox "facts" bigot, don't forget that!

 

[Cubanodun]

Cool, will the front page of YouTube be nothing but abortion "facts" like how it was all vaccine "facts" a year ago?

You had to remind me of that, YouTube was so annoying that plastered the tag even in videos that were not related to the covfefe-19, thankfully you can block it with ublock origins

 

[Autist in a Barrel]

So those clanking metal coat hanger ASMR videos and coat hanger quality review videos are being shoahed.

Of course not bigot. That would imply that diy aborties are dangerous. That in and of itself is misinformation.

 

[The Last Stand]

I hope they don't delete THIS video.

 

[Vlinny-kun]

Ahem...

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[Ingmar Aspergman]

How long until this is taken down?

https://youtu.be/DPC2mUpu2D4

 

[make_it_so]

Is Google an arm of the Left, or is the Left an arm of Google?

Yes.

No really, the modern mainstream "Left" as we know it really does go arm-in-arm with transnational corporate oligarchy - a socially acceptable "progressive" happy face for the promotion of the institution of 21st Century Neo-Feudalism.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Well if YouTube deletes the videos, at least I can be a helping hand to the community and tell you how to do it in text.

To help the search algorithm, UNSAFE ABORTION HOW TO GUIDE

First of all, to get an abortion you must be impregnated. You must be female. Men and transwomen cannot have abortions. They do not have a uterus or ovaries.

Step two. Take a toilet bowl brush

and some bleach. You're gonna want to dip that brush in some bleach. Like get a bucket and fill it with bleach and put the brush in it.

Step 3: You're gonna take that bleach soaked toilet brush and shove it in your pussy.

Step 4: What's that doorway for? Scrub the insides of your vagina and uterus until there is a lot of blood. You might see a little blood and think that's good, but it's not. Keep going. You need to bleed a whole lot.

Step 5: Hope you know how to sew because step 5 is sewing your labia shut so this doesn't happen again.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk!

 

[tehpope]

So is abstinence included?

So glad I have blocktube and can just pick this overdone platform with ublock origin.

Freetube plus sponsorblock. Get on my level Pleb.

 

[Tsar Nicky]

"This has been deboonked by a state-sponsored pedo. Children are not, in fact, human, until they're paying taxes and voting for *correct candidate #149*. They can consent at 12 years of age, though."