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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!

Youtube’s Nudity and Sexual Content Policy

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802002?hl=en#zippy=%2Cage-restricted-content%2Ceducational-content

IGN: YouTube's New AI Age Verification System Goes Into Effect Today in the United States

https://www.ign.com/articles/youtubes-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

https://insider-gaming.com/death-stranding-2s-photo-mode-used-to-get-around-uk-age-verification-law/

E is Social: The Impending Death of Queer Indie Games, Censorship and the Morality Policing Lie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3CUGw_J65g&t=1s

Lextorias: The Secret War To Censor The Internet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHHnPLllUk

Bellular News: Valve No Longer Controls Steam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlEHovdeKZw

E is Social: How the NSFW Tumblr Ban Destroyed an Online Queer Community

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLZpdpSCJT8&t=1s

Man Carrying Thing: everyone on youtube after August 13th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRlYhkyLlgc

CalebIsSalty: “YouTube Kids Content Is Absolutely Terrifying”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnK8VVUMuVs

MSN/Pink News: The UK Online Safety Act is here: What you need to know about the new age verification legislation

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/the-uk-online-safety-act-is-here-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-age-verification-legislation/ar-AA1JedVc

Innodata: The Ethics of Content Moderation: Who Protects the Protectors?

https://innodata.com/the-ethics-of-content-moderation/

Lessons in Meme Culture: YouTube AI Age Verification Is Not Good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NbwNAM3ygo

Taylor Lorenz: The Worst Update in YouTube History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsD0e1k4d90

The Hated One: Age Verification - The End of Free And Open Internet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDdl4oiSolk

Micro: Why The Internet REALLY Wants Your ID… (and why now?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAd-OOrdyMw

AugustTheDuck: YouTube's Worst Policy Change is Coming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V37qnAWKYp8

Optimus: YouTube's New AI Age Check Feature Is Catastrophic…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5aIMdtE9lo

MeoKido Toons: YouTube’s AI Age Verification Is Hilariously Bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiTHKhIcW8c

Beyond the Internet: YouTube AI Age Verification: Everything You Need To Know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu8OSjDZHPU

BBC: Facebook moderator: ‘Every day was a nightmare’

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57088382

The New Yorker: The Underworld of Online Content Moderation

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-underworld-of-online-content-moderation

Daily Dot: SESTA-FOSTA is ‘detrimental’ to sex workers’ safety, study confirms

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/sesta-fosta-report-sex-work/

OctaByte Blog: PeerTube: The Free and Decentralized Alternative to Video Platforms

https://blog.octabyte.io/posts/applications/peertube/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

https://theconversation.com/what-is-mastodon-the-twitter-alternative-people-are-flocking-to-heres-everything-you-need-to-know-194059
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