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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @03:44PM
It's probably just botched automation, but I wouldn't rule out an emotional human wanting an excuse to make the cause of their bad feelings go away.