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This provision defines a category of prohibited content and describes YouTube's institutional approach to identifying and removing such material through both designation frameworks and industry coordination mechanisms. The GIFCT participation establishes a procedural basis for how YouTube determines which organizations fall within the scope of the prohibition.
YouTube's updated Community Guidelines now explicitly state the platform is expanding likeness detection technology to protect civic leaders and journalists from deepfakes and synthetic media, not just creators and artists. This broadens the scope of automated protection against manipulated video and audio content. While the change does not alter user obligations or remove rights, it signals that detection and enforcement of synthetic media policies may increase for content involving public figures and professional journalists.
View change record →Users are prohibited from posting content that praises, promotes, or aids organizations designated as violent extremist or criminal entities under the stated criteria. The provision does not authorize users to post such content and establishes removal as the operational consequence for violations.
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You agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities: (i) copying, distributing, or disclosing any part of the Service in any medium, including without limitation by any automated or non-automated 'scraping'; (ii) using any automated system, including without limitation 'robots,' 's...
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"Content that's meant to praise, promote, or aid violent extremist or criminal organizations is not allowed on YouTube. We rely on many factors — like certain government and international organization designations — to determine what constitutes criminal or terrorist organizations. We're also a founding member of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), where we work with other tech companies to keep terrorist content off the web — and provide training and other resources to smaller companies facing similar challenges.— Excerpt from YouTube's YouTube Community Guidelines
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This provision defines a category of prohibited content and describes YouTube's institutional approach to identifying and removing such material through both designation frameworks and industry coordination mechanisms. The GIFCT participation establishes a procedural basis for how YouTube determines which organizations fall within the scope of the prohibition.
Users are prohibited from posting content that praises, promotes, or aids organizations designated as violent extremist or criminal entities under the stated criteria. The provision does not authorize users to post such content and establishes removal as the operational consequence for violations.
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