YouTube has posted "Community Guideline Tips" on its Community Guidelines page, clarifying what kind of content will prompt a video removal by the site. YouTube's user-driven video flagging system helps it to remove inappropriate content, and according to YouTube, staff work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to ensure that the site's contents stay acceptable for viewing.
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So what about all these flash artists who have their work uploaded to youtube "illegally"? Oh, sorry, you don't have money for lawyers, so you can't file a copyright complaint.
Quote:For instance, it is generally okay to criticize a nation, but not okay to make insulting generalizations about people of a particular nationality.
So it's ok to say (for example) "usa sucks" but not ok to say.. "yanks elect criminals and idiots to represent them" .. It's probably also fair and allowed to say "traveling people don't bathe as often as they should for reasons of lack of facilities being available to their community"... but not ok to say "all pikeys are smelly f---ers"
watch out peeps.. that's one of the things Orwell warned us about.
We know both statements are equally true.. as a valid outside opinion based on direct observation.. But allowing one where not allowing the other is a direct infringement of freedom of speech. When a site puts itself up as the arbiter of their standards of "free speech" while limiting what can be said in such an arbitrary and gereralised way then they become judge jury and executioner of the way people think and express themselves. Do we allow goobtube to become our new thought police??
Now we come to this..
Quote:For instance, including a clip from a slaughter house in a video on factory farming may be appropriate. However, stringing together unrelated and gruesome clips of animals being slaughtered in a video may be considered gratuitous if its purpose is to shock rather than illustrate.
In that same breath we should include shows from TV like Oprah and Jeremy Kyle.. they serve no other purpose that to belittle and insult the participants as a media spectacle for the gawpers.. Without shock value these shows would be nothing.. Springer I'm pointing my finger straight at you....
We eat animals.. so why not show where our meat comes from? If it shocks people into making more ethical choices about how the meat they eat is kept and killed then it's only a good thing. So what if a few sickos get off on it?.. sorry.. that's life.
that makes no sense, remember the star wars kid, didnt like some one from his school find that and put it to youtube, and that was harrasment but it is still up
Quote:"Hate speech" refers to content that promotes hatred against members of a protected group.
How does one apply to become a member of one of these "protected" groups???
Sounds like a pretty sweet deal. No one can say anything bad about you? I want in!
Quote:"Hate speech" refers to content that promotes hatred against members of a protected group.
How does one apply to become a member of one of these "protected" groups???
Sounds like a pretty sweet deal. No one can say anything bad about you? I want in!
As long as you are not white or male you can "get in"!!!
But....that's discrimination!!!
All this is common sense you would gather that some people would already know this stuff. But as we know there are some dopey and really messed up people out there and this basic but important stuff is needed.
I feel sorry for people that do not get that YouTube is used for enjoyment not for getting back at someone or other things like that. It's a shame that society needs to be told the basic mannerism that is needed out there in the big wide world that we live in.
