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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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YouTube Banning Combat Robots, Mistaking Them for Animal Fights
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belief, n:
Something you do not believe.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @04:09PM
This kills children, since they'll try it at home!
This Promotes/Glorifys actual animal fights!
Normal people don't want to watch small things be violently torn apart for fun!
This could stoke innate violent urges in a small portion of the viewers, but the harm is large enough to outwigh the benefits!
It's easy to justify anything if your standard for accepting an argument is that it sounds true/is intuitively reasonable/the counterargument sounds bad.