YouTube Announces Policy Changes to Punish Channels Posting Offensive Videos

YouTube recently announced some policy changes to its community guidelines in order to curb the spread of offensive videos on the platform. Under the new policy, YouTube has detailed a number of ways it plans to punish creators who breach the community guidelines.

Here's a list of all the changes outlined by YouTube:

Premium Monetization Programs, Promotion and Content Development Partnerships: We may remove a channel from Google Preferred and also suspend, cancel or remove a creator's YouTube Original.

Monetization and Creator Support Privileges: We may suspend a channel's ability to serve ads, ability to earn revenue and potentially remove a channel from the YouTube Partner Program, including creator support and access to our YouTube Spaces.

Video Recommendations: We may remove a channel's eligibility to be recommended on YouTube, such as appearing on our home page, trending tab or watch next.