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You may not be completely wrong, but this is her answer:

> YouTube's criteria are patriarchal, and male gaze focused- if men like it, it's bad and women need to change

I think she's right. The kind of puritanism enforced by Youtube (or Facebook) is based on, and obsessed by, male gaze, and therefore patriarchal and retrograde.

I would agree that there's a limit, and that limit is porn (yet Twitter doesn't censor porn, with no ill consequence to their business). What she's doing isn't porn.



This is pretty closely related to hot tub channels on Twitch though.

There is, very obviously, a whole strain of content aimed at "sexual content where you normally can't have sexual content" - and the problem for providers is not dealing with it at some point means that is now what your platform is for (which ironically pretty much devalues the original content - the taboo is the appeal).


> yet Twitter doesn't censor porn

they do - if it's explicit, you must login to view it. I'd consider that a partial censorship.




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