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Are they deleting them due to graphic explicitness?
by runawaybottle 7y ago
Are they deleting them due to graphic explicitness?
- sneak 7y agoDoes it matter? Wouldn’t you want evidence of war crimes to be both graphic and explicit, therefore making it better documentation of a crime and more likely to assist in the prosecution of the criminal(s)?
- NotSammyHagar 7y agoIt does matter why they ban things. They make mistakes too, sometimes put things back. It always matters.
- sneak 7y agoI disagree. The danger is not YouTube or YouTube's policies, whatever they may be at any point in time. The danger is centralized models that permit invisible, sometimes-on, sometimes-off, point-and-click censorship. Those models fail when the military puts a machine gun in a sysadmin's face in wartime, regardless of how good or decent their censorship policies were in peacetime. It's the model that's bad, not YouTube's current policies.
- catalogia 7y agoIf you ban graphic depictions of war, you should ban all depictions of war. Otherwise you are whitewashing war and will warp the general perception of war, quite possibly making war more likely to occur as a result.