Censorship Google Style

Whilst there is little overt ideological or political censorship of Youtube content made at the behest of Western governments this does not mean that such processes are not in place. It might be argued that the systems by which material is removed from Youtube, and the faults in that system which allow such removal to be highly variable, serve the ideological agenda of corporate capital very effectively indeed, however ramshackle they might appear from the outside. Power is often most effective when it is invisible.

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This video is part of a series made in conjunction with the 15th annual Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts conference, Shanghai, China. The event is hosted by the Centre for Advanced Studies at the University of Nottingham at the university's Ningbo, China campus.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/drha/index.aspx

"This year's conference will explore the new connectivities in societies and cultures which are enabled by the blending of virtual and physical space, the traversing of time and space through the virtual, and the evolution of innovative methodologies. Crossing disciplines and challenging boundaries within the humanities, arts and the creative industries, this conference will examine critically familiar notions of the 'local', the 'global' and the 'network' across the cultural spectrum."

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[g1981c]

people who support censorship in any form are fucktarded

[vmorgun]

Censorship is lame. The thing I respect about China is their one-child-policy.

[1chin]

fuck dat, have u seen the so called "aliens"(what the locals calls people from other city) left dying in the hospital because they cant afford to pay for the medication bills? while a fake ass mofucka who works for the government gets special treatment and care? do a research and see how fucked up and corrupt the health care system is in china. lets stick to the real issues here, HUMAN RIGHTS

[HigherPlanes]

Most people are mature enough to censor their own content. And the ONLY thing censors should have to add is a warning before the content, but forced censorship is a plain childish, infantile and a very comfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.

[VoxNeruda]

Nor is the placing of resposibility on end-user the only obfuscation.

YouTube's "Community" Guidelines are also disingenuous.

Miller vs. California, et al establishes that "community standards" for purposes of determining the obscene must include the sensibilities of the entire audience.

In YouTube, that audience is global.

To state that YouTube standards reflect the world is laughable.

[MusicByInterval]

So Fred what would you think might happen if say three months from now we started a movment to have thousands of people, on the same day and time, flag all of there own videos. Would it crash the system? Would youtube uphold the flagings as valid? What would be the ruling on posting and then self flaging? What would they do? What could they do? Imagine the cost and resources used. Maybe a virus could flag every youtube video there is at once. "Anonymous" Hello idea here! Lol. Kidding or am I?

[rozeboosje]

Or mutual censorship where people, not content with turning their back on someone who is annoying them, want to make sure that nobody else can hear that voice either by exploiting the weaknesses of a site's "policing" system - like you said, the flagging system and so on.

[WarblesOnALot]

@g1981c G'day... Y're right there. When I studied Psychiatry the theory was that only Fundamentally Psychiatrically Insecure individuals are able to remain in any "(In)Security Industry". Which effectively makes Night-Watchmen & Police, & Military-Careerists, equally as suspect as Professional Spies ; and any other form of "Might Equals Right" Standover-Thuggery ! The Computerised versions of Surveillance & Censorship are merely updates, on old Paranoias !

[Loreleila]

Video response rendering.

[warmwarmerdisco]

I just saw a vid of a busty lady deep throating a banana. extremely sexual, she even tit screwed the banana! nice talk.