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
videos.trom.tf