A California judge, Virginia K. DeMarchi, decided to toss out a lawsuit made against YouTube by five LGBTQ+ creators who claimed the platform was discriminating against them by censoring queer content.
According to The Guardian, five LGBTQ+ YouTubers – Greg Scarnici, Sal Bardo, Stephanie Frosch, Bria Kam and Chrissy Chambers – filed a joint lawsuit in 2019, alleging that they had been unfairly targeted by the platform’s content moderation policies.
According to the suit filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, videos containing keywords relating to LGBTQ+ topics are often hidden or demonetized after being falsely flagged as adult content by YouTube’s restricted mode.