YouTube.com: Sex & Nudity Videos Are Banned But Death & Suffering Are OK
A news story that ran locally in Miami last night caught my eye.
There is a video posted on YouTube showing a man drowning off the coast of Puerto Rico.
The video is obviously quite upsetting to the family who lives in Miami who asked YouTube.com to remove it.
“Stop using my Dad, leave my Dad alone, let him rest in peace”, said the son in asking YouTube to remove the video.
The family was shocked to find that such a video is not prohibited by YouTube’s guidelines.
According to YouTube.com here are some of the type of videos prohibited from the site:
Sex and Nudity.
Hate Speech.
Dangerous Illegal acts.
Shocking and Disgusting.
In a nation where the display of a nipple during the halftime show of the Super Bowl had 200+ million people in a dizzy for a month, a video showing someone’s death is allowed for the world to see.
YouTube.com rejected the families request to have the video removed.
The video has now been viewed over 4,500 times.
Do to the family’s wishes I have not linked to the video in the post (nor did I watch the video)
Personally I think a video of a nipple is a lot less offensive than watching someone’s death, however when you legislate morality this is sometimes the results you get.
Your thoughts?
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Amen and amen. We seriously have our priorities messed up.
I couldn’t agree with you more.
My thoughts go to the family of the drowned man.
“When you legislate morality this is sometimes the results you get.”
Well said. Very well said.
And they don’t consider that video shocking and disgusting?
I’ll tell you what’s shocking and disgusting, youtube’s response
Michael,
Are you in Miami?
And in regards to this post. How is that video not classified as Shocking? Guess they need it to be shocking and disgusting at the same time.
Samir
In Boca along with a lot of other great domainers, but in the Miami media market.
JP
According to YouTube.com shocking and disgusting is defined as:
“”"”The world is a dangerous place. Sometimes people do get hurt and it’s inevitable that these events may be documented on YouTube. However, it’s not okay to post violent or gory content that’s primarily intended to be shocking, sensational or disrespectful. If a video is particularly graphic or disturbing, it should be balanced with additional context and information. For instance, including a clip from a slaughter house in a video on factory farming may be appropriate. However, stringing together unrelated and gruesome clips of animals being slaughtered in a video may be considered gratuitous if its purpose is to shock rather than illustrate.”"”
So I guess the purpose of the video is to illustrate a death and its OK by YouTube.com’s book of rules.
SEX is not okay in USA but showing how to shoot people is okay.
Guns don’t kill people, it is people kills people.
Oh yeAH…welcome to BullS*&&^ land just like what my website says.
If I was the son of that man I’d really think the world is a cruel place, and apparently it is. It looks like he gets to keep on suffering b/c some clowns at Google thinks it’s okay to show people dying.
I wonder if there was a video of Sergey Brin’s father getting killed by having his brains blown out on the street of New York, if he’d still consider that okay? Would he say, “Yes….this is going to be great for YouTube’s ratings! Sorry dad! “.
Shame on Google and it’s YouTube.com
What about the videos of the planes crashing into the World Trade Center? I’m sure the families of the victims did not like to see those, but should those clips have been banned from public airing?
Can’t see what is so shocking about nipple clips/videos.
I am amazed that Youtube does not remove the video on the families request. I have no problem that they allow to show this sort of videos, but when the concrned familiy asks for removal they should do this without any further questions.
Jon
Obviously 9/11 was a huge news story, one guy drowning is not.
Moreover the pictures of the planes hitting the buildings was faceless, that is you did not see the face of someone struggling for several minutes and losing their battle with death.
Michael,
There are those differences, but I think the principle that real life events are news and should be allowed to be reported as accurately as possible (assuming no privacy laws are broken) is the same. As distasteful and insensitive as the posting of that video on YouTube may have been, to call for the breaching of that principle (which I think you implied in your comment about YouTube’s “book of rules”) is I think contrary to the goal of a free press.
Jon
I wasn’t aware that YouTube qualified as “press”.
Thought is was an entertainment source at best.
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Neither porn or violent deaths should be on youtube.
My four-year-old granddaughter knows her way around a mouse and computer, and I wouldn’t want her to find some bimbo swallowing a certain part of the male anatomy or a suffering man drowning in the ocean.
Neither have a place where kids have easy access.
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Nudity as well as death are part of our lives.
I am sure videos of accidents make people behave more carefully. The other day I saw video how escalator in the subway “swallowed” some boy’s feet, I rememeber when I was a kid I did same stupidities as the boy. That’s because until now I did not realize that this can happen. I will be more careful on escalators for the rest of my life fo sure.
And American hysteria/obsession about nudity is becoming issue for a shrink.
Michael,
YouTube is private property and posters who report or comment on news (or contribute to such by providing video footage) can’t claim a legal right to freedom of speech or the press, however I think YouTube is being somewhat noble in refusing to censor videos such as the one under discussion because it is hypocritical not to allow on one’s private property as much freedom as one expects from one’s government. I don’t know what their full motivation is but they apparently do see YouTube as a place where “events may be documented.”
Trust me- there’s plenty of nudity and sex on YouTube with targeted ads too.
You just have to be registered and consent to being an adult on the sign in page.
Somewhere I have a screen cap I took, because I couldn’t believe what I found.
Hello Mike,
Yes this is good Ole American Media coverage, along with Hollywoods morose fixation with promoting body mutilation and gun shot wounds every two seconds on any given channel on TV. We live in a country that is fast becoming desensitized to brutal killings and other atrocities. It is frightening to me and others to see such a total disrespect for human life. It seems Americans just cannot get enough of war and outright Aggression to soothe their Egos. This is how all great civilizations meet their demise. Moral decay is something we should all be concerned about.
Gratefully , Jeff
I couldn’t agree more. So where’s the link to this video?
I personally enjoyed the video. I think drownings are my favourite type of murder, I like to watch the struggle against an inexorable submersion resulting in death. Its magical.