A few days ago, YouTubers noticed that the service was classifying some LGBTQ+ videos as “sensitive content” under the site’s Restricted Mode. YouTube has now apologized, but has not clarified why.
YouTube offers its users the ability to enable a Restricted Mode, developed to protect users who want to avoid seeing mature content while browsing the service. This feature uses “community flagging, age-restrictions, and other signals to identify and filter out potentially inappropriate content”.
About four days ago, some YouTubers started complaining that their videos with LGBTQ+ content were being classified as “sensitive” by the company and, therefore, were being blocked for those users who chose to enable the Restricted Mode. Yesterday, the company went to Twitter to apologize for the situation and tried to explain what happened.
