• Chozo@fedia.io
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    20 hours ago

    No community guidelines violated

    soldiers shooting civilians, including children

    I mean, it’s right there. YouTube ain’t LiveLeak.

    • TheEmpireStrikesDak@thelemmy.club
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      31 minutes ago

      YouTube has no problem with multiple different ai generated gory videos of Rebecca Madeupname being mauled alive by an orca. Every time I opened a private window, one of these was recommended. No age restriction, nothing.

      They have no problem with porn bots spamming family friendly channels with pro-paedo comments, even though they use the same avatars and messages so should be easy to filter out. Videos promoting dangerous hacks stay up even after multiple reports. They’re fine monetising reaction channels that are nothing more than freebooting other people’s work.

      So YouTube’s tos really comes down to: it’s fine if it makes money.

      I wish there was proper competition, even if it was run by another awful company like Microsoft or amazon. AFAIK no other platform offers monetisation like yt does, so people stay and put up with their crap.

      (Personally I’m hoping to reupload mf stuff to peertube if I ever come out this slump.)

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      Coverage of the Tienanmen Square Massacre is on YouTube and includes exactly this.

      Hell, it’s practically a meme to shout “Nobody in China knows about Tienanmen Square!” at the villainous Lemmy Tankies, precisely because the Chinese government has a policy of taking down media coverage while the US media proudly reproduces it at every opportunity.

      Why would YouTube, a company that has repeatedly expressed its commitment to breaking down the barriers of government censorship and oppression, suddenly decide it needs to censor a state-sanctioned massacre of civilians? What would lead us to conclude that the genocide in Gaza should be treated differently than the Tienanmen Square massacre?

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        18 hours ago

        I wonder if we could pressure the BBC or PBS into pushing these videos to force Google/Israel to do this even more blatantly.

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        repeatedly expressed its commitment to breaking down the barriers of government censorship

        That was only and will only ever be done when it’s in favor of whatever government reigns over the company.

        Displaying the Tiananmen Square Massacre is in line with the USA gov. Displaying Israeli crimes is not.

        Don’t be naive. Youtube and Google don’t give half a shit to go against censorship.

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          Don’t be naive.

          Hardly naive. Just pointing out the obvious.

          YouTube clearly has no problem hosting snuff films with the correct political valence.