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> We use machine learning to evaluate content against our advertiser guidelines.

This means Google violates civil rights law by maintaining a list of phrenological behavior based on racial, sexual, and demographic data.

Advertisers choosing videos to show up in also means selecting which videos to filter out. This means Google has a list of acceptable behavior for blacks, gays, and women to perform such filtering.

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>This means Google violates civil rights law

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe sexual orientation is a protected class. Are there other statuses which would make this behavior illegal? Obviously IANAL and don't really know what I'm talking about here.

I think OPs jump in logic means if you can filter ads on sexual orientation then the same tooling can be use to attack protected classes.

Perhaps, though they are lumping in "sexual [orientation]" with race and gender. I also unaware of any cases of potential violations against a protected class.

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