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.
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.
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.