Posted on 06/07/2019 3:35:18 AM PDT by C19fan
YouTube hovers in paradox: It’s a platform for expression that vacillates on the kinds of expression it wants to support. Even when the site makes constructive changes in the content it promotes or prohibits, the outcomes raise questions about censorship and curation. On Wednesday YouTube revealed extensive new policies around hate speech in a move to “reduce more hateful and supremacist content from YouTube,” as the company announced in a blog post. The policy also meant the removal of Leni Riefenstahl’s 1935 Nazi propaganda epic “Triumph of the Will,” which left the site hours after YouTube announced its new standards. After all, “Triumph of the Will” falls under the rubric of “videos that promote or glorify Nazi ideology, which is inherently discriminatory,” as YouTube explains one prohibited category. The movie is also regarded as one with major historical value, raising essential questions about the nature of the film medium. Does it belong in the same category as Lunikoff, a German Neo-Nazi band whose channel also got the boot?
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Perhaps that is why YouTube should not be in the censorship business in the first place. I checked and "Birth of a Nation" and Sergei Eisenstein's odes to Communism and Stalin are still available.
I am waiting to see when anti-Islam apologists like Apostate Prophet and David Wood are pulled.
Burn them books and videos.
YouTube:
We cannot approve of a culture which thrived on propaganda, group-think and denial of free and open information to the public. Therefore we forbid any information about that culture from being seen by anyone ever again.
And don’t you DARE try and stop us from killing babies - or YOU will be erased, too.
But you can watch movies like “I spit on your Grave I, II and III” :)
You can watch a politician blow his brains out on youtube. AWESOME video. Blood comes out nothing like in the movies. Just like water pouring out of a hose.
You can post violent movies with more guns in them than NRA members, or hatchets or baseball bats or swords or in the case of torture porn, ANY number of sick and demented torture devices for sickening torture scenes that feminists should decry as debasing to women.
That’s all ok.
BTW, the movies with guns never show the boring way in which they are used 99.99 percent of the time...use at the range or hunting or just carrying to make sure you have a gun when you need it instead of not having a gun when you don’t need it. YES, I stole that from TRUE ROMANCE :)
Its a ####ing upside down world.
Dont look for clips from Hogan’s Heros to be there for much longer.
And History schmistory with it. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Wonder if they’ll pull those hilarious Hitler parody’s.
You would think youtube would WANT to air Nazi propaganda films especially by unrepentant Nazi Riefenstahl, just to show how evil the Third Reich was. They could even use Triumph of the Will to call PDJT a latter day Hitler.
You know, they really should pull the Hitler parodies, as it reduces the Fuhrer down to nothing but a harmless Teutonic clown, obscuring the reality of one of history’s worst mass murderers.
Indeed. They've stepped onto a slippery slope, and now they can't get off. It's only going to get worse and worse for them.
parodies
Well thank you Mr/Ms grammar/spelling moderator. However, it’s a gotcha to out people like you. Congratulations for spotting it.
Humor is the best thing to humiliate. There are folks who still thing he’s the greatest and those parodies help to reduce his image to nothing but a clown.
You’re welcome!
This is all because Trump won.
They won't let Blazing Saddles be aired with the word n _ _ _ _ _ remaining un-bleeped...
If they won't allow a classic comedy that beautifully roasts racism and racists, they'll never allow actual content from The Bad People, no matter how much historical context is provided. I haven't checked recently, but I'm betting that photos of Hitler and Nazi rallies are becoming more rare in textbooks, even at the university level.
"He says the sheriff is nearer!"
Gotta love it.
There are many rational reasons for that, and it will not end any time soon.
For younger or dissatisfied Germans, his time was clearly their zenith for power on the global stage. "We were greatest when" is one powerful draw for any human who wants their country to be at or near the top again. That's a very common human desire. It's still around in Russia, China, Japan, and plenty of other places with strong pasts.
The marvels of technology and engineering in that era were stunning, even by modern standards. The first jet, the first rocket, the first stealthy jet, tanks that were unmatched anywhere in the world, a massive battleship that humiliated the world's greatest-ever battleship in mere minutes, vehicles that still survive today, etc etc etc. They literally redefined war for the modern age with the Blitzkreig. Evil political and genocidal drives aside, those all deserve respect by any rational military historian.
And most importantly, especially for younger males, NOTHING is more offensive and startling and shocking than to claim that membership. That's a huge drive for young males. Just look at Beto and his youthful "poetry". Attention-seeking through shock-value is very valuable currency for teens. Just ask the two guys who created South Park... foul-mouthed cartoon 3rd graders openly taking on every taboo topic and politically-incorrect stance imaginable... they're worth mid-nine-figures today, halfway to being billionaires... all from shock value alone.
“He says the sheriff is nearer!”
“No, consarn dadblame it!! I said the sheriff is a ni..[CLANG!]”
;^)
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