YouTube Cracks Down on Crowder Channel After Employee Protests

  • Google employee group blasts YouTube for allowing LGBT slurs
  • Conservative YouTuber made homophobic jokes about Vox reporter

Steven Crowder performs in Ann Arbor, Mich. on Oct. 25, 2018. 

Photographer: Ben Allan Smith/Ann Arbor News via AP
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YouTube cracked down on the channel of Steven Crowder after the conservative comedian and commentator made homophobic and racist jokes about a journalist.

The Google video unit had earlier said Crowder’s offending videos didn’t violate its policies. That prompted a group of Google employees to protest the decision.