REBROAD­CAST OF MARCH 20 2017 Dis­cus­sion of the recent Youtube con­tro­ver­sy where the site has removed access to a num­ber of LGBTQ+ videos (includ­ing G rat­ed con­tent, and chan­nels specif­i­cal­ly aimed at edu­ca­tion for chil­dren) under their ​‘restrict­ed mode’ set­ting which is sup­posed to remove con­tent users might find inap­pro­pri­ate. LGBTQ+ con­tent is often labelled as inher­ent­ly inap­pro­pri­ate (e.g., when the words ​‘les­bian’ and ​‘bisex­u­al’ were blocked from pro­vid­ing com­mon­ly searched results on Google Instant-the auto­com­plete fea­ture- in 2010, despite retain­ing the fea­ture for slurs like ​‘f*ggot’ which brought up offen­sive search options- in ref­er­ence on the live show I was not sure about the con­text in which the con­tent was blocked and thought it might have been blocked from search­ing- which does not appear to be the case in the 2010 inci­dent) and the impli­ca­tions of see­ing LGBTQ+ as overt­ly sex­u­al, inap­pro­pri­ate and as some­thing chil­dren should be restrict­ed from our dis­cussed, espe­cial­ly in the con­text of users (e.g., queer youth) who might need to find that con­tent. Also dis­cussed is some Toron­to music his­to­ry, and advances (cur­rent and pro­posed) in Cana­di­an legal pro­tec­tions of gen­der and gen­der expression.