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YouTube deletes half of 'violent' music videos
YouTube says it has deleted more than half of the "violent" music videos that the country's most senior police officer asked it to take down. More than 30 clips have been removed so far.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has blamed some videos for fuelling a surge in murders and violent crime in London - and singled out drill music. She asked YouTube to delete content which glamorises violence.
Drill originated in Chicago. Its biggest breakout star is arguably Chief Keef, famous for his 2012 track I Don't Like.
[...] In the past two years police have asked YouTube to take down between 50 and 60 music videos, because they were deemed to incite violence. The video-sharing site has now removed more than 30 of them.
"The gangs try to outrival each other with the filming and content - what looks like a music video can actually contain explicit language with gangs threatening each other," the Metropolitan Police's Mike West said.
That's that shit I don't like.
Also at Rolling Stone and Pitchfork.
Related: Spotify Removes Two Artists From Playlists Due to "Hate Content and Hateful Conduct"
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Sunday June 03 2018, @04:42AM
A corporation decides to censor its platform.
So what? They're a bunch of scumbags any way.
It's not against the law for them to censor stuff on *their* infrastructure. In the US, the *government* isn't allowed to do so. Non-governmental entities can censor to their heart's delight in the US.
Outside of the US, there are many different laws about censorship. IIUC (please confirm or correct me on this, Brits), in the UK, freedom from government censorship isn't nearly as expansive. Not that this matters, as YouTube isn't part of the UK government.
Regardless, this is Youtube. Last time I checked, Alphabet, Inc. [wikipedia.org] was a publicly traded corporation and not a government entity. Don't like what they do? Vote with your wallet and your feet.
Telling others what they can or cannot host on their infrastructure is censorship too. Telling YouTube that they *must* host what you want them to host is just as regressive and inappropriate as telling them what they must take down.
If you don't want to support an organization that censors expression, don't support them. I support SN financially, in part, because they don't censor anyone. I don't support Google, in part, because they do. Get it?
Go ahead and keep pissing and moaning if you want, but unless you stop using Alphabet's data gathering apparatus, you're supporting them. Not that I should need to enumerate them, but a non-exhaustive list of pieces in that apparatus includes:
Google Search
Gmail
YouTube
Google Assistant
Google Music
Google Allo
Google Duo
Google Apps
Google Home
Google Maps
Google Translate
Chrome
and others.
As long as you continue to support that organization your are tacitly supporting their censorship.
If you're whining about what they do, yet still using their spying apparatus, you're a hypocrite IMHO.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr