After Youtube rolled out the new “AI age verification system” on August 13th, 2025, a lot of people seem to be waking up to just how overtly censorious our modern social media and online platforms are, enough to actually threaten to leave these patriarchal, oppressive platforms. Do they mean it? Or are these empty threats? What even IS Youtube’s new “AI age verification system,” and does it completely fuck over any chance of fighting for gender-equal anti-censorship equality on the platform, even as pro-censorship as Youtube already was? Watch the video and let’s discuss!
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Links referenced in the Video
- Youtube’s Nudity and Sexual Content Policy
- IGN: YouTube’s New AI Age Verification System Goes Into Effect Today in the United States
- Insider Gaming: UK Age Verification Being Bested by Death Stranding 2’s Sam Bridges
- E is Social: The Impending Death of Queer Indie Games, Censorship and the Morality Policing Lie
- Lextorias: The Secret War To Censor The Internet
- Bellular News: Valve No Longer Controls Steam
- E is Social: How the NSFW Tumblr Ban Destroyed an Online Queer Community
- Man Carrying Thing: everyone on youtube after August 13th
- CalebIsSalty: “YouTube Kids Content Is Absolutely Terrifying”
- MSN/Pink News: The UK Online Safety Act is here: What you need to know about the new age verification legislation
- Innodata: The Ethics of Content Moderation: Who Protects the Protectors?
- Lessons in Meme Culture: YouTube AI Age Verification Is Not Good
- Taylor Lorenz: The Worst Update in YouTube History
- The Hated One: Age Verification – The End of Free And Open Internet
- Micro: Why The Internet REALLY Wants Your ID… (and why now?)
- AugustTheDuck: YouTube’s Worst Policy Change is Coming
- Optimus: YouTube’s New AI Age Check Feature Is Catastrophic…
- MeoKido Toons: YouTube’s AI Age Verification Is Hilariously Bad
- Beyond the Internet: YouTube AI Age Verification: Everything You Need To Know
- BBC: Facebook moderator: ‘Every day was a nightmare’
- The New Yorker: The Underworld of Online Content Moderation
- Daily Dot: SESTA-FOSTA is ‘detrimental’ to sex workers’ safety, study confirms
- OctaByte Blog: PeerTube: The Free and Decentralized Alternative to Video Platforms
- The Conversation: What is Mastodon, the ‘Twitter alternative’ people are flocking to? Here’s everything you need to know
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