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 racism, saying it was
keen to be culturally sensitive.
The move was in response to a campaign led by Lazi Dlamini,
the head of TV Yabantu, an online video production company, featuring Africa's
"finest culture... as seen, and recorded by the African people".
According to Mr Dlamini, he had contacted YouTube's parent
company Google to say that he was simply reflecting the cultural values of his
community, but the company said that the content violated the platform's
standards.
He then organised a series of protests, working with more
than 200 cultural groupings from Swaziland, with the first one taking place on
Saturday in Durban, a city in neighbouring South Africa, the Mail and Guardian
says.
It included at least a dozen women who posed bare-breasted
with placards that accused Google of racism.
One placard read: "My breasts are not
inappropriate", the Mail and Guardian said.
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