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Abby Martin from Empire Files made a beautiful video about the war in Afghanistan: https://youtube.com/watch?v=C3LFbOSPfrE https://youtube.com/watch?v=C3LFbOSP

Abby Martin from Empire Files made a beautiful video about the war in Afghanistan: https://youtube.com/watch?v=C3LFbOSPfrE https://youtube.com/watch?v=C3LFbOSPfrE

thejackgoode 5y ago
Google wants me to submit my passport (“age check”) to watch this video (despite being registered there since 2008). Any other links to it?
- La1n 5y ago
  I don't have a link, but I've noticed that quite a few videos in the similar corner of topics need an "age check" (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI , the creator of which was (according to them) visited by DHS for "anti-american sentiments" [1] ) [1] https://twitter.com/_secondthought/status/1332746158947635202?lang=en https://twitter.com/_secondthought/status/133274615894763520...
  - beckman466 5y ago
    So glad you mentioned this, I've also noticed this. Agreed, it's scary and crazy what happened to JT Chapman/Second Thought. This 'age check' is also a pretty convenient way for Google to 'passively' create a list of people who watch "anti-american sentiment" videos.
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- rad_gruchalski 5y ago
  I was able to watch it on a mobile just yesterday, in the browser.
- detritus 5y ago
  Yea, I've been seeing this more and more on what seem from the outside like fairly innocuous vides and was yesterday accomanied by a prompt on my mobile that I 'need' to add my age. Nope. Go away, Google.
  - nsizx 5y ago
    This was mandated legally by the European Union for videos that are not suitable for minors. (I assume this one contains gore or something like that? I haven't watched it)
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- beckman466 5y ago
  Yes I use https://yt1s.com https://yt1s.com to download and watch videos that are blocked with this "age check" ridiculousness
hirako2000 5y ago
Great summary of events. It is sad once again that it took over a decade for the obvious to start spreading. I remember 2001, Bush and Co throwing silly justifications to engage. At that time most people felt that we should fight terrorism where it spawns. Years later Ben laden is supposedly caught, killed, and dropped deep in the ocean far off the coast, god knows where. No trial, no question asked really. Just the releaf that the most terrorising terrorist was done for. "We got him" as Obama said.
- dragontamer 5y ago
  The Taliban wanted to surrender in 2001. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/07/news/rumsfeld-rejects-planto-allow-mullah-omar-to-live-in-dignity-taliban.html https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/07/news/rumsfeld-rejects-pla... The surrender was rejected, and the Taliban became an insurrection force we know today. We won the war in 2001, then lost it when we refused the surrender terms. We wanted to nation-build instead. ----------- EDIT: Never turn the government of a country into an insurrection force. The Taliban, for all of their flaws, was the government of Afghanistan (or the closest thing to a government that they had in the decades before 9/11). They knew how to run their country. We didn't kill the Japanese Emperor when we won WW2, we let the Emperor live a life of dignity and remain a culturally significant icon while negotiating surrender terms.

Abby Martin from Empire Files made a beautiful video about the war in Afghanistan: https://youtube.com/watch?v=C3LFbOSPfrE https://youtube.com/watch?v=C3LFbOSPfrE

thejackgoode 5y ago

Google wants me to submit my passport (“age check”) to watch this video (despite being registered there since 2008). Any other links to it?

La1n 5y ago
I don't have a link, but I've noticed that quite a few videos in the similar corner of topics need an "age check" (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI , the creator of which was (according to them) visited by DHS for "anti-american sentiments" [1] ) [1] https://twitter.com/_secondthought/status/1332746158947635202?lang=en https://twitter.com/_secondthought/status/133274615894763520...
- beckman466 5y ago
  So glad you mentioned this, I've also noticed this. Agreed, it's scary and crazy what happened to JT Chapman/Second Thought. This 'age check' is also a pretty convenient way for Google to 'passively' create a list of people who watch "anti-american sentiment" videos.
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rad_gruchalski 5y ago
I was able to watch it on a mobile just yesterday, in the browser.
detritus 5y ago
Yea, I've been seeing this more and more on what seem from the outside like fairly innocuous vides and was yesterday accomanied by a prompt on my mobile that I 'need' to add my age. Nope. Go away, Google.
- nsizx 5y ago
  This was mandated legally by the European Union for videos that are not suitable for minors. (I assume this one contains gore or something like that? I haven't watched it)
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
beckman466 5y ago
Yes I use https://yt1s.com https://yt1s.com to download and watch videos that are blocked with this "age check" ridiculousness

hirako2000 5y ago

Great summary of events. It is sad once again that it took over a decade for the obvious to start spreading. I remember 2001, Bush and Co throwing silly justifications to engage. At that time most people felt that we should fight terrorism where it spawns. Years later Ben laden is supposedly caught, killed, and dropped deep in the ocean far off the coast, god knows where. No trial, no question asked really. Just the releaf that the most terrorising terrorist was done for. "We got him" as Obama said.

dragontamer 5y ago
The Taliban wanted to surrender in 2001. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/07/news/rumsfeld-rejects-planto-allow-mullah-omar-to-live-in-dignity-taliban.html https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/07/news/rumsfeld-rejects-pla... The surrender was rejected, and the Taliban became an insurrection force we know today. We won the war in 2001, then lost it when we refused the surrender terms. We wanted to nation-build instead. ----------- EDIT: Never turn the government of a country into an insurrection force. The Taliban, for all of their flaws, was the government of Afghanistan (or the closest thing to a government that they had in the decades before 9/11). They knew how to run their country. We didn't kill the Japanese Emperor when we won WW2, we let the Emperor live a life of dignity and remain a culturally significant icon while negotiating surrender terms.