YouTube deletes a large number of videos at the UK's behest
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Continuing the recent British tradition of assaulting the spirit of free speech in any way we can, our Metropolitan Police Commissioner has asked YouTube to take down many videos, something YouTube appears to have done without question and expediently. Our country gets worse and worse by the day and it's really quite depressing. No longer can people on the right suggest that they're the guardians of free speech considering our centre-right government's continued attacks on it, although I recognise that free speech technically only counts in the sense that people cannot be punished by the government for what they say. Still, one must admit that this is a worrying trend.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-44281586
So now the UK nannies can bitch about my US-legal content and youtube will take it down?
I'm switching to PornHub.
[quote]There are gestures of violence, with hand signals suggesting they are firing weapons[/quote]
All kids are violent criminals that incite violence, you heard it here first!.
I presume that this only affects the UK's YouTube portal, so I don't think you have anything to worry about in the US.
I desperately wish for the UK government to create a written constitution, as our intangible 'constitution' is practically meaningless.
Now when kids roleplay cops and robbers at school, they'll be sent to prison for being the perpetrators of mass shootings. "Even the hands get in trouble."
https://img.staticbg.com/images/oaupload/banggood/images/68/8E/b6f7591e-383c-48e2-abdd-c25ba63455ab.jpeg
They need orange tips like all toy firearms.
That is fucking ridiculous.
Just go back to that old punishment: Cut their hands off. Solves the problem.
There are gestures of violence, with hand signals suggesting they are firing weapons
Fucking hell. And I thought it was ridiculous they were mosaic-censoring guns in music videos scenes set at a shooting range.
I think the love of censorship is generally quite bipartisan - so many people love the 'think of the children' argument.
In the end, measures like this are ineffective in curbing youth violence (or whatever the boogeyman is at the time).
Music videos, gun videos, and merely mentioning legal drugs are banned. If you talk about your homosexuality you'll be demonetized. If you review commercial products you'll be demonetized.
however alleged underground child molester networks are untouched on youtube and are acceptable for monetization according to youtubes standards.
I remember when those daddy05 videos were up on YouTube for ages too... essentially condoning child abuse, and it's not exactly like those videos were unpopular either.
Year 2024: "The British public today has welcomed their formation of an ISIS caliphate on the British Isles due to IS' more liberal views on free speech."
I'm seeing a lot of lawsuits in the future from US artists
Don't you see guys? The british government is protecting the children from themselves! Everyone knows that
So.. at what point are we supposed to flee the country before it's too late?
Every day millions of children are brutally murdered by finger guns.
https://twt-thumbs.washtimes.com/media/image/2015/02/15/obama-finger-gun_c0-0-640-373_s885x516.jpg?ba6c66ab8cdb5e6ea399b5fe08ee3ac371a2ff75
Before you watch a youtube video, please think of what it'd be like if YOUR child was in danger!
Nice job reading y'all.
These are literal call-out videos made under the guise of "music videos", lots of them include direct threats against people, and they're directly leading to gangs settling scores over these videos in real life with people getting murdered.
It's not censorship of general "violent" videos; it's removing directly threatening videos.
Yeah I was going to say, censorship is absolutely bad but people are making this out to be just british nanny state business when a large percentage of these songs are either boasting about people they've stabbed/splashed/shot, or actively attempting to threaten/instigate violence with opp sides
I've been involved and following the London Drill scene since it grew out of the road rap scene, these aren't rappers making up lyrics they're actively referencing violent crimes they've committed. And with the surge of gang violence recently that's only gonna get worse over the summer because summer is stabbing season, is probably just a last ditch effort to stop people just going out and doing a stabbing so they can put it on a tune.
Like I genuinely love the drill scene and the grime scene, but when you look at:
Aydee got cheffed in the ends times two
Donny had enough and he went OT
Then he got cheffed upsuh
Fucking hell who made it three?
Bellz got chinged, he was tryna go cafe
And his young g got cheffed times three
He was in the lack trying to get some wings
Don't nobody know about Uber Eats?
Anwar got cheffed and he pissed himself
Donny should of said that he had to pee
Done saw man two times already
One more time and a boy got chiefed
Gface dun got cheffed in the eye
Blind man's bluff and now man can't see
He's young g dun got cheffed on the bus
Don't anybody know about Addison Lee?
And realise these are all stabbings that have actually happened and are being promoted in lyrics it is a bit more difficult a situation than with a lot of gangster rap from the US which isn't really talking about shit like that
Free speech in America would still allow for those things though, AFAIK. A direct, credible threat to an individual is still illegal, granted, but music should not be banned for this reason, surely?
All the videos that were requested removed did violate that rule afaik.
I always interpreted music with threats in as a stylistic choice, and I would rarely perceive them to be credible. I do despise music containing suggestions of shooting and knifing people because I find it to be in poor taste, but I've never taken those threats seriously. Then again, I'm not massively familiar with the drill genre you guys are all talking about. It's Chopin all the way for me because I'm stuck in the 19th century.
That's blatantly disproved by the specificity and the fact that they're typically followed up on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB6fq9Aadwk
'Typically' implies not always though, right? I just think that tarring everybody with the same brush because of others' ill deeds is not a great idea, but it's possible that by 'typically,' you did indeed mean always.
RIP to this video then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0VOM7e5Hug
God I fucking hate this pansy ass country.
it's not about the fact that listening to the music makes you violent, it's the fact that a lot of these songs are specifically celebrations of murders or attempted murders, which only causes to escalate the violence between opp blocks
If a guy from a gang gets stabbed, then someone goes and makes a song bragging about having stabbed him which happens to get 5 million views on youtube, then the guy who got stabbed (or his friends if he died) are going to send back a them even harder, because his assault was publicised and used to mock him.
No ones saying that some middle class kid from Surrey is going to hear this music and go stab someone, but if I'm a yute from Lambeth and someone killed my brother then made a song about how my brother was a pussy, I'm going to want to take action against that person
Killing someone and then making a song about how you killed them is like... really bad, really really fucking bad.
Or even just making a video mocking someone who had just been killed, thats a line crossed that you shouldn't even be close enough to see.
This is the thing, I don't want anyone's art to get censored especially as I have worked with multiple people within this scene and a lot of them are genuinely using the music as a way to escape the road life. But if the video was just a bunch of guys celebrating murdering someone without a song attached, it would be taken down incredibly quickly.
the article says 'more than 30 clips have been taken down', and from what I can see none of the artists 'playing by the rules' are getting affected, it seems largely to be directed videos like the ones I mentioned.
And just to clarify again: I do not condone censorship of art
But people are trying to spin this as it being done because 'Think of the children!!' which is really not the case
Indeed, and I don't think that making a celebration of a guy you killed could really be called art, just barbarism.
Looks like you better lock up 99% of US rap artists too, oh and just abolish metal entirely because it's also largely violent in content.
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