Last week, YouTube came under fire after it chose not to remove videos containing homophobic slurs. The decision came after Vox host Carlos Maza tweeted about ongoing harassment from Steven Crowder, which included a video compilation of Crowder making homophobic comments like calling Maza a “lispy queer.” On Monday, YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki attempted to issue an apology in response to an audience question at Recode’s Code Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. “I know that the decision we made was very hurtful to the LGBTQ community and that was not our intention at all,” Wojcicki said. “I thought it was really important to be upfront about that and to say that, that was not our intention. And we’re really sorry about that.” "Are you really sorry for anything that happened to the LGBTQ community? Or are you just sorry they were offended?" Watch @SusanWojcicki 's response at #CodeCon : pic.twitter.com/5MqJxL8QVS — Recode (@Recode) June 10, 2019 When Maza first tweeted about the...

Every year, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) —an LGBTQ civil rights group —publishes a corporate equality index rating companies on how well they treat LGBTQ people. Typically, Google scores high on the list and receives a 100 percent rating , until now. HRC has made the decision to suspend Google from its 2019 corporate equality index after the company failed to remove a conversion therapy app. In footnotes of the report, HRC wrote that it had become aware of an app distributed in the Google Play Store supporting the practice of conversion therapy. HRC went on to say: “Such practices have been rejected by every mainstream medical and mental health organization for decades. Minors are especially vulnerable, and conversion therapy can lead to depression, anxiety, drug use, homelessness, and suicide. Pending remedial steps by the company to address this app that can cause harm to the LGBTQ community the CEI rating is suspended.” — Human Rights Campaign The app, called Living Hope...