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YouTube reinstates Man On Man video, after claiming it breached “sex and nudity policy”
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 3 June 2020
YouTube has reinstated a video by Man On Man – a duo formed by Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum and his boyfriend Joey Holman during lockdown – having taken it down saying that it had breached its rules on nudity and sexual content days earlier.
The video for the song ‘Daddy’ shows the two men wearing white underwear. It was removed by YouTube shortly after being uploaded last week, on the grounds that it had violated the company’s “sex and nudity policy”.
However, in a statement to Rolling Stone earlier this week, the Google-owned platform said that the video had been taken down in error, adding: “With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call. When it’s brought to our attention that a video has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it. We also offer uploaders the ability to appeal removals and we will re-review the content”.
Also speaking to Rolling Stone, Bottum and Homan said: “It’s clear tech companies are lacking in representation and therefore discriminate against skin colour, age, sex and sexuality. Even if YouTube does value and promote diversity [as it claims], the truth is, the industry is still playing by straight men’s rules”.
“It’s devaluing when we see Google monopolise on our Pride but do so little to actually enhance and protect the LGBTQIA+ digital experience”, they added. “We’re asking for an equitable playing field”.
Watch the video for ‘Man On Man’ here:
