speech. especially on social media. on the one hand we want to stamp out hatred and harassment. on the other hand we want to prevent censership and protect our first amendment rights. sometimes these values just seem to clash. and these tech companies now are having to walk a tight rope on the issue. here a closer look at the problem. there are now more than 126 million active users on twitter every day. youtube meanwhile has 1.9 billioners per month and people watch more than a billion hours of video on that site every day. facebook is the biggest with more than 2 billion active users per month. and that company owns the social media giant instagram. with numbers like that it s no wonder the companies are struggle with how to manage the content. some content restrictionen created by government. copyright laws for example. but much is left to the companies to govern themselves. they ve got a lot to wrestle with including deciding how
i started flagging to youtube this was happening and asking them to enforce the policy and got zero response. then a couple weeks ago it happened again where he made another video making fun of me for being gay and hispanic. i had been frustrated i felt like nothing i had done was working. i was on my couch by myself and i said i think i m done and he had kit altogether on tweeted not about what he had been doing because there will always be jerks like him but youtube was about to start pride month and rock the rainbow colors and care about lgbt people. and they were helping this guy build the audience was who is only content was making fun of me being year and hips zbliek youtube said we will leave it up and not making money is that good decision, bad decision. the people people making this content aren t use going for ad revenue. they make their using using the youtube technology to find people who will be drawn to them. youtube will find people who are
so hate speech, disinformation and conspiracy theories are the catnip for the business model of the company. can i just add youtube s argument is essentially that if you ban people from saying things like this guy called me a list. y kwoer over many years if you ban the word year then you have to bay gay content producer identifying as kwoer only an argument if you don t have a brain and youtube knows it s not an ortho. youtube knows hate speech is engaging bully dominate the playground. aren t you on a slippery slope? do we want the corporations then deciding who gets to speak how they get to speak. here the problem with the argument the alternative to the corporations doing it is you have 80-year-old white guys in congress who doesn t know how to use the internet trying to do it. that s worse. it s true any rule has potential drawback about getting misused. i don t trust cops but i don t make an argument we should have no laws. i have an argument for keeping cops accountable an
attracted bigotry and hate speech. recommend the videos to them and then build a huge audience you can profit off of and then the bad actors when they get demonetized saying i m a victim, martyr buy my m. rch and they make millions claiming to be a victim. i want to give, you know, the people on the other side of this thing a chance to be heard. obviously steven crowder sees it differently and the ceo of youtube sees it differently. let s hear from him. make no mistake this not about me versus some guy at vox. this is an example of a giant corporate media entity trying to silence voices that they don t like. it s just that from a policy standpoint we need to be consistent because if we look if we took down that content there would be so many other so much other content that we would need to take down. and we are not we don t want to just be knee jerk we need to think about it in a thoughtful
peach. they are making excuses to avoid doing the difficult thing dealing with the monster they spent years create zbroog but some conservatives say they are being unfairly banned arguing the content is flagged at hate speech sfla names are taken off. people aren t getting through. and it seems to be if they re conservative, republicans it s discrimination and big discrimination. joining us now we have two men with a personal stake in this whole fight. roger mcnamee is a long-term vent yur capitalist. he was a investor in facebook advising mark zuckerberg but now says it s doing serious damage. and carlos maza host of the series strike through on vox.com has been harass ds by the youtuber named steven crowder. he recently tweet add whole montage of offensive jokes about his race and sexuality. he asked youtube to do