{"id":33450,"date":"2021-03-30T15:37:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T22:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33450"},"modified":"2021-03-30T15:37:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T22:37:37","slug":"youtube-under-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33450","title":{"rendered":"YOUTUBE UNDER FIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff members at YouTube have recently taken issue with the company&#8217;s refusal to remove a song that some of them find to be racist toward the Asian American community.<\/p>\n<p>Employees called for the removal of rapper YG&#8217;s 2014 song \u201cMeet the Flockers,\u201d due to its inclusion of lyrics that detail a burglary and call for targeting of Chinese neighborhoods,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jqsfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkbbtrqtt_ezrrbbysyfrhrzrtrhpp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jqsfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkbbtrqtt_ezrrbbysyfrhrzrtrhpp.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1617228661572000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHt678DdrikEOycKpHLSCT8FliJrg\">according to Bloomberg.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asian American and Pacific Islander communities have seen a recent surge in violence during the coronavirus pandemic, with a recent incident including a shooting rampage in the Atlanta area that left eight people dead, including six Asian women.<\/p>\n<p>In light of the increased violence, some YouTube employees requested that the company&#8217;s Trust &amp; Safety team, which is tasked with ensuring a safe community on the platform, remove the song. That request was later denied, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff members at YouTube have recently&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33451,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33450\/revisions\/33451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}