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YouTube Removes Around 30 "Violent" Music Videos in Response to UK Police Requests

posted by martyb on Sunday June 03 2018, @12:51AM   
from the triggered dept.

takyon writes:

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.

Drill music.

Also at Rolling Stone and Pitchfork.

Related: Spotify Removes Two Artists From Playlists Due to "Hate Content and Hateful Conduct"

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• Re:Not censorship but a response to an offence Re:Not censorship but a response to an offence (Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:11AM (1 child)

  by janrinok (52) on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:11AM (#687975) Journal

  Probably about the same time that you stop being frightened by a religion. Oh, you mean those that claim to be Muslims but, in fact, do not follow the teachings of the Quran? Don't blame a religion for people who have a twisted idea of good and evil. The religion is just being exploited by people with marginally more intelligence than those being targetted.

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• Re:Not censorship but a response to an offence (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:56AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:56AM (#687986)

  Probably about the same time that you stop being frightened by a religion.

  Right now then? My point was only that the law be applied equally.

  Oh, you mean those that claim to be Muslims but, in fact, do not follow the teachings of the Quran? Don't blame a religion for people who have a twisted idea of good and evil. The religion is just being exploited by people with marginally more intelligence than those being targetted.

  Are you talking about this abhorrent, hateful nonsense? [skepticsannotatedbible.com] What's the legal distinction between incitement via rap music or incitement via "religious" text? There's only one rational conclusion to this thought experiment unless the frame is perverted from that of secular perspective.

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