YouTube’s new anti-harassment rules

[YouTube is finally updating its anti-harassment policies — half a year after a big controversy.](The video streaming platform YouTube is tightening its rules around what it considers rule-breaking harassment. The changes come six months after a controversial public debate over the company’s decision to allow conservative YouTube commentator Steven Crowder to repeatedly target a Vox journalist, Carlos Maza. In widely watched videos, Crowder routinely directed racial and homophobic slurs at Maza as he attempted to debunk Maza’s work. YouTube told Recode on Wednesday that it will take down several of Crowder’s videos, and that it’s making three significant shifts in its content moderation policies. First, YouTube will “no longer allow content that maliciously insults someone based on protected attributes such as their race, gender expression, or sexual orientation.” Second, the company will expand its definition of threats to include “veiled or implied threats.” And third, the company will take action against accounts that display a pattern of harassment, even if this account’s content may not qualify as harassment in a specific instance. [[Shirin Ghaffary / Recode](] [Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff wants behemoth tech companies to be more generous — within limits.](The founder of Salesforce has made a name for himself in recent years by differentiating himself from other Big Tech CEOs like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. The products his company makes aren’t really controversial. And he’s been on a campaign, both in San Francisco (where his company is headquartered) and beyond, to encourage his fellow tech giants to give back more to their communities and the world. (He’s donated hundreds of millions of dollars to philanthropic causes.) But as one Wired reporter discovered, there’s a disconnect between the gospel of philanthropic giving that Benioff preaches publicly, and what his company lobbies for when it comes to corporate taxes. When it came to Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, a source told Wired, “Salesforce's ultimate goal ... was straightforward: the best deal possible.” [[Chris Colin / Wired](] [Away’s new CEO was originally supposed to be the company’s second-in-command.](The week, the luggage retail startup Away, which was valued at $1.4 billion in its most recent round of investor funding, announced it’s getting a new CEO: Stuart Haselden, the former COO of the activewear brand Lululemon. The announcement came only a few days after The Verge’s investigation went viral about co-founder Steph Korey’s role in the startup’s “toxic company culture.” But Recode’s Jason Del Rey learned that the new CEO was meant, at first, to join the company as Away’s chief operating officer, or COO, and was supposed to report to Korey — and the plan was that he would eventually become CEO. That plan changed after The Verge’s story, and Korey resigned. [[Jason Del Rey / Recode](] [Hackers are finding novel ways to take over Ring security cameras.]( In recent months, reports have shown that hackers have taken over families’ Ring surveillance cameras located both inside and outside people’s homes. Vice’s Motherboard reports that these hacks are part of a bigger pattern: Hackers are coming up with dedicated attacks for Ring devices, and they’re sharing their expertise in online forums with other hackers. “For most families, putting a camera in a kid's room is an unnecessary risk: many smart home cameras and IoT devices have been hacked in the past,” Vice writes. [[Joseph Cox and Samantha Cole / Motherboard](] [Insert alt text here] [Artificial intelligence will help determine if you get your next job.]( AI is being used to attract applicants and predict a candidate’s fit for a position. But is it up to the task? [[Rebecca Heilweil](] [Insert alt text here] [The hundred gadgets that defined the decade, from fidget spinners to the Amazon Echo.]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Manage your [email preferences]( to receive fewer emails, or [unsubscribe]( to stop receiving all emails from Vox. View our [Privacy Policy]( and our [Terms of Service](. Vox Media, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036. Copyright © 2019. All rights reserved.