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YouTube Banning Combat Robots, Mistaking Them for Animal Fights

posted by martyb on Saturday August 24 2019, @02:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the Rock-'Em-Sock-'Em-Robots dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

Reports are rolling in that YouTube is banning sports combat robotics videos with the explanation of "animal cruelty". This implies someone or something is mistaking battling robots for battling animals. The best conspiracy theory is that bots are censoring cruelty to bots to protect their own kind. More likely, it's Hanlon's AI razor.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @03:04PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @03:04PM (#884772)

    Maybe they self-identify as animals, you bigot!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @03:16PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @03:16PM (#884775)

    Someone call the NAACR. The National Association for the Advancement of Combat Robots.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @03:53PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @03:53PM (#884789)

      Or the RRFO Robots Rights and Feelings Organization.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 25 2019, @12:52AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 25 2019, @12:52AM (#885000)

        No, no, no.... It's just PETR. People for the Ethical Treatment of Robots.

        What do you mean that it doesn't roll off the tongue and makes it seem like we're just a lazy and weak rip-off of another organization? Nobody, but nobody, gets away with accusing us of being a limp PETR.