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They might be dissidents crying out for free elections denied them by their government. But apparently, YouTube doesn’t care to make a distinction. Several countries around the world have blocked access to YouTube because dissident and separationist factions have used it to incite unrest in those countries. Nobody is paying me to help you enforce your own policies, and it seems certain that if ‘we the people’ won’t help you, you’re not going to do it yourself. But it doesn’t want to be responsible for how people actually use the service. And it wants to get credit for all the good, funny, insightful, talented things people put up there. It’s setting itself up as a grassroots broadcasting network. But YouTube isn’t setting itself up as the wild, wild west that is so much of the Internet. I’ll say it again, I tend to lean on the side of free speech, trusting to the free marketplace of ideas more than any authoritative source telling us what we can and cannot be trusted to see, hear, or read. Maybe YouTube hasn’t thought this through. You can call for the death of all infidels and glory in disembowelments and decapitations just as well as any Imam preaching a Friday Sermon. You’re a citizen in a democracy you can editorialize about the latest political scandal as well as any talking head on CNN or Fox. Bob Saget’s funniest home videos have got nothing compared to the stuff you have on your hard drive from last year’s family reunion. Your garage band can make it’s own demo and give Motown, Nashville, Austin, Seattle, and all of California a run for it’s money. They want to convey the image their website is a place where you, the people, can put up videos just like you see on TV. YouTube wants to get good PR by posting nice words in their community guidelines, or in interviews with the NY Times. Make that argument while thumbing thru those pictures, and if you can do it with a straight face and without turning your eyes away, maybe then I’ll listen.

I was much less willing to give the benefit of the doubt to anyone who argued that way. But how I thought about those notions still changed. I didn’t really believe any of that before the book. It wasn’t that I’d pretended evil wasn’t real, or that humanity had put all that behind itself, or that proper education would be enough to solve all our problems. I still haven’t found words suitable to convey how much changed for me That Day. I can still picture some of them in my mind, now over 25 years later. I literally became light-headed and sick to my stomach. Lots of them, and they didn’t pull any punches.

When I was a teenage bookworm I once came across a library book on the Holocaust. or other) displayed with intent to shock or disgust, or graphic war footage with implied death (of U.S.

Supan said that among the videos removed were those that 'display graphic depictions of violence in addition to any war footage (U.S. Don't post gross-out videos of accidents, dead bodies and stuff like that.' - from YouTube Community Guidelines If your video shows someone getting hurt, attacked, or humiliated, don't post it.' 'Graphic or gratuitous violence is not allowed.

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