Lol, It seems "progressives" are all for Censorship until it's until it affects them as well.
Whilst I think it is stupid to even have restricted access to it, it does make me laugh at their hypocrisy.
Lol, It seems "progressives" are all for Censorship until it's until it affects them as well.
Whilst I think it is stupid to even have restricted access to it, it does make me laugh at their hypocrisy.
So they're an unfortunate side effect of a filtering system. Not the first, and won't be the last. Folks wondering why this is happening "now" will pause to remember that Youtube is pushing Youtube Red as a fairly large effort (with a very unfortunate / naive name, all things considered).
SO what I'm getting is, Youtube fucked up when trying to apply a filter to some sensitive content. They wanted to restrict some of the more sexual stuff but applied it to broadly. (omg YT apply something too broadly? Say it isn't so!!!)
Other then that restricted mode is an optional thing you have to turn on yourself.
https://support.google.com/youtube/a...DDesktop&hl=en
People that use this filter are most likely not going to watch their content either way.
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Restricted mode is something you turn on for yourself.
In the last 20 years, the internet has really opened up a free market of ideas, which has allowed for a lot of positive social progress. In the past, what people were conscious of was largely controlled by the major media companies, which had so much power that they could actually conceal wars and genocides from public awareness. With the centralization of so much influence in a handful of social media platforms, we cannot deny that there would be a huge amount of profit in returning to that type of controlled information economy.
Social media has become the new public square, we shouldn't censor anything that we wouldn't do the same for if somebody was handing it out on a street corner. I don't think we should do anything against these companies through the law, but as a society I think the vast majority of people should be supportive of such principles.
Most people would rather die than think, and most people do. -Bertrand Russell
Before the camps, I regarded the existence of nationality as something that shouldn’t be noticed - nationality did not really exist, only humanity. But in the camps one learns: if you belong to a successful nation you are protected and you survive. If you are part of universal humanity - too bad for you -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Sure filter for naughty words but let videos with deaths, stuff blowing up and weapons go uncensored without any issue.
American censorship is insane.
It's to the point where they bleep out "bitch" in Frasier (FRASIER! from 99) but my kid can watch Bad Boys II with people getting shot and drugs up the ying yang without issue at 3 in the afternoon :P
Because it's 2017, Outrage is like a currency to these people.
I'm sure they will settle down and untwist their panties once they realise it is just a mistake with new Filters.
Hell, it put a Restricted Warning on "We are Number one" meme Videos that had nothing adult in them.
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Sounds like an exceptionally good business opportunity for the LGBT community: start their own web video sharing service on which they can control access.
I agree with your premise about what is good and bad for society. Censorship sucks, etc.
However, where you lose me, is in the denial of ownership rights.
You have a right to pass out fliers on the street, yes. But, you do not have the right to pass out fliers inside my say, football stadium. The owner of any platform, is the holder of rights on what can be presented there.
There is a big internet out there; YouTube is not the only outlet. If YouTube gets too touchy, and all indications say that they are, then what will likely happen, is that a competitor will arise and over take them, provided the public is in agreement.
It's just the restricted content filter that's used for things like schools or the YouTube Kids (Which is basically aimed at kids younger than 10 or so). That's the kind of restrictions you want to be overzealous.
What if the people that decided to use restricted mode don't want to see lgbt content?
Good luck getting YouTube to do anything. They don't listen to jack.
I'd prefer Youtube to just lift all restrictions and let people watch whatever they want, omitting the content they don't like through filters.
Sadly, in this case it will likely follow Megaupload and Piratebay footsteps...