YouTube has lifted restrictions from videos showing Swaziland’s reed dance, which feature bare-breasted women. A spokesperson for the video-sharing platform told the BBC that YouTube allows nudity when “culturally relevant or properly contextualised”. Users who had uploaded reed dance videos were angered when it was classified as age-restricted content. YouTube has denied accusations of […]

‘Hey Google, our breasts aren’t sexual’ Simon Allison 12 Oct 2017 12:22 Protesters gathered in Durban to challenge Google’s restrictions on cultural content and to force it to rethink its guidelines on nudity, arguing this policy perpetuates racist views about certain African cultural practices. (Photo:TV Yabantu) Nobukhosi Mtshali felt a little lost when she first […]