{"id":103337,"date":"2016-09-02T13:36:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T11:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=103337"},"modified":"2016-09-02T13:37:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T11:37:25","slug":"youtube-is-punishing-offensive-sexual-and-controversial-uploads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/103337-youtube-is-punishing-offensive-sexual-and-controversial-uploads","title":{"rendered":"YouTube is punishing offensive, sexual and controversial uploads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed some grumbling this week surrounding YouTube changing its Terms of Service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;YouTube stars and their fans have been ranting online about the site apparently enforcing its Terms of Service more aggressively, and removing the revenue-building advertising options for videos the site deems \u201cnot advertiser-friendly,\u201d reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/what-youtube-stars-are-going-to-do-now-that-they-cant-swear-and-get-paid\" target=\"_blank\">Motherboard<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the last few weeks, YouTube has started rolling out a new notification system to let channels know when and why some videos have been stripped of their ads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that some of these notifications are incredibly vague.<\/p>\n<p>Everything from sexual humour to bad language has been flagged, along with controversial topics including anything related to &#8220;war, political conflicts, natural disasters and tragedies, even if graphic imagery is not shown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big deal right?<\/strong> Ignore the new changes and keep posting what you always have.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that when violating these new terms, YouTube will also remove the revenue-building advertising options for videos the site deems \u201cnot advertiser-friendly\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>That means your favourite YouTubers effectively need to comply with these new rules or can no longer afford to support themselves.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Awesome tech and gaming deals\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/103125-awesome-tech-and-gaming-deals-2.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome tech and gaming deals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Overwatch will be free to play on console next weekend\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/103229-overwatch-will-be-free-to-play-on-console-next-weekend.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Overwatch will be free to play on console next weekend<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This how powerful AMD\u2019s Radeon RX Series graphics cards really are\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/102729-this-how-powerful-amds-radeon-rx-series-graphics-cards-really-are.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This how powerful AMD\u2019s Radeon RX Series graphics cards really are<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube is cracking down on offensive content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":103339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,20340,21721,1713],"class_list":["post-103337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-active","tag-advertisements","tag-terms-of-service","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103341,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103337\/revisions\/103341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}