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History Professor banned from YouTube because he had clips of Nazi Propaganda

averros 7y ago
The Left tries to sanitize history... Probably because history clearly shows that their cult is apt to turn into mega-murder. Like National Socialists' did.
- dang 7y ago
  We've banned this account for using HN for ideological battle—not what this site is for, regardless of which flavor—and ignoring our request to stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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jeanvaljean2463 7y ago
Those who forget/erase history are doomed to repeat it!
- wahern 7y ago
  You mean censoring speech in the abstract or the failure to limit Nazi propaganda in the 1930s? Also, in which historical era was voluntary and deliberate censorship solely by private, commercial entities a dominate factor in how things unfolded?
  - rsj_hn 7y ago
    Fun Fact: The Weimar government had very brutal suppression of Nazi Propaganda and jailed Nazi publishers. This just won them more popular support as the public wanted to know why Nazis were being suppressed. The court trials of Nazi publishers received wide attention and gave them a platform to air their views. It turned out that Weimar censorship was counterproductive then as it is now. Another fun fact. The communists in Weimar Germany went for the whole "punch a Nazi" thing in a big way, violently attacking Nazi political groups, which directly lead to the formation of the SS (actually a precursor group) as a self-defense group meant to protect the Nazis from communist street violence. That turned out really well for the communists, too! So indeed, those who fail to learn history really are doomed to repeat it.
    - bitwize 7y ago
      Fun fact: Germany today has arguably even stricter laws banning Nazi propaganda, and hasn't renazified in 75 years.
      - rsj_hn 7y ago
        This is false. German anti-Nazi laws are weaker today than under Weimar and the society is generally much more liberal. Of course the reason why no nation has renazified is because Fascism exists as a boogeyman of the left rather than a reality. It is a completely discredited ideology. If you look at every public opinion survey, there are many more communists than there are nazis, even though morally both sides are equally odious. If you could find a Nazi lurking about somewhere, rather than in the nightmares of radicals, they would never say "Real Nazism has never been tried". Whereas there are actually people claiming to be communists and insisting that communism deserves a tenth or eleventh chance. Nazism is a completely defeated ideology even as communism continues to try to come back from the grave.
    - wahern 7y ago
      That narrative sounds like someone played a game of telephone with this CATO institute essay: https://www.cato.org/policy-report/mayjune-2015/war-free-expression https://www.cato.org/policy-report/mayjune-2015/war-free-exp... I'll leave it at that. HN readers are perfectly capable of reading the history themselves and appreciating the complexities.
      - rsj_hn 7y ago
        You don't need one article. Just a basic grasp of history. We in the "West" are today a more liberal society, especially with regards to speech, than ever in history. Stuff that would have gotten you locked up in 1920 will not get you locked up today. If you don't understand that, or question it, or seriously believe that there were more political freedoms in the 1920s rather than today, then God help whomever was your history teacher.
        bitwize 7y ago
e2le 7y ago
They were too offensive!
tomlockwood 7y ago
This happens to people on the left all the time too. They get mass reported if they have any nazi symbols in their videos - even educationally.
- Gibbon1 7y ago
  I have some trans friends. They all say 'community guidelines' is just another tool to be wielded against them.
erentz 7y ago
Could this be some kind of automoderation perhaps related to this recent announcement? > “First, the ban on supremacists will remove Nazis and other extremists who advocate...” https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/5/18652576/youtube-supremacist-content-ban-borderline-extremist-terms-of-service https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/5/18652576/youtube-supremaci...
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The Left tries to sanitize history... Probably because history clearly shows that their cult is apt to turn into mega-murder. Like National Socialists' did.

dang 7y ago
We've banned this account for using HN for ideological battle—not what this site is for, regardless of which flavor—and ignoring our request to stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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jeanvaljean2463 7y ago

Those who forget/erase history are doomed to repeat it!

wahern 7y ago
You mean censoring speech in the abstract or the failure to limit Nazi propaganda in the 1930s? Also, in which historical era was voluntary and deliberate censorship solely by private, commercial entities a dominate factor in how things unfolded?
- rsj_hn 7y ago
  Fun Fact: The Weimar government had very brutal suppression of Nazi Propaganda and jailed Nazi publishers. This just won them more popular support as the public wanted to know why Nazis were being suppressed. The court trials of Nazi publishers received wide attention and gave them a platform to air their views. It turned out that Weimar censorship was counterproductive then as it is now. Another fun fact. The communists in Weimar Germany went for the whole "punch a Nazi" thing in a big way, violently attacking Nazi political groups, which directly lead to the formation of the SS (actually a precursor group) as a self-defense group meant to protect the Nazis from communist street violence. That turned out really well for the communists, too! So indeed, those who fail to learn history really are doomed to repeat it.
  - bitwize 7y ago
    Fun fact: Germany today has arguably even stricter laws banning Nazi propaganda, and hasn't renazified in 75 years.
    - rsj_hn 7y ago
      This is false. German anti-Nazi laws are weaker today than under Weimar and the society is generally much more liberal. Of course the reason why no nation has renazified is because Fascism exists as a boogeyman of the left rather than a reality. It is a completely discredited ideology. If you look at every public opinion survey, there are many more communists than there are nazis, even though morally both sides are equally odious. If you could find a Nazi lurking about somewhere, rather than in the nightmares of radicals, they would never say "Real Nazism has never been tried". Whereas there are actually people claiming to be communists and insisting that communism deserves a tenth or eleventh chance. Nazism is a completely defeated ideology even as communism continues to try to come back from the grave.
  - wahern 7y ago
    That narrative sounds like someone played a game of telephone with this CATO institute essay: https://www.cato.org/policy-report/mayjune-2015/war-free-expression https://www.cato.org/policy-report/mayjune-2015/war-free-exp... I'll leave it at that. HN readers are perfectly capable of reading the history themselves and appreciating the complexities.
    - rsj_hn 7y ago
      You don't need one article. Just a basic grasp of history. We in the "West" are today a more liberal society, especially with regards to speech, than ever in history. Stuff that would have gotten you locked up in 1920 will not get you locked up today. If you don't understand that, or question it, or seriously believe that there were more political freedoms in the 1920s rather than today, then God help whomever was your history teacher.
      - bitwize 7y ago

e2le 7y ago

They were too offensive!

tomlockwood 7y ago

This happens to people on the left all the time too. They get mass reported if they have any nazi symbols in their videos - even educationally.

Gibbon1 7y ago
I have some trans friends. They all say 'community guidelines' is just another tool to be wielded against them.

erentz 7y ago

Could this be some kind of automoderation perhaps related to this recent announcement? > “First, the ban on supremacists will remove Nazis and other extremists who advocate...” https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/5/18652576/youtube-supremacist-content-ban-borderline-extremist-terms-of-service https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/5/18652576/youtube-supremaci...

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