I have a funny yet somewhat irritating story to share about YouTube Censorship.
Now, I don’t have hardcore porn or anything up YouTube. They’re very good about pulling that sort of stuff down right away… and rightfully so since minors (and little old biddies watching their own “2 Girls 1 Cup” reaction videos) can easily stumble upon things they weren’t looking for.
At IML 2008, the guys at FEAST OF FOOLS podcast did a series of quick interviews at the Leather Market. For those of you who are unfamiliar, FOF is the #1 Rated Gay Podcast broadcasting out of Chicago (couple streets over from me). They have a variety of guests and celebrities on their show to discuss topics ranging from Politics, Britney’s most recent melt down to how to keep your “Love Tube” clean and functional for sex. The videos at IML were all very harmless and very funny. And even educational.
I had told the guys that if they wanted some REALLY good material for their show, they should come over and talk to the owner of Mr S Leather, Richard Hunter. Below is one of the silly videos they shot that I uploaded to my own YouTube account.
After I uploaded the video, I got a nasty email from YouTube. They removed ONE, just ONE, of the 6 FLOGGING VIDEOS….. along with the FOF video. When the FOF guys uploaded that video… YouTube removed the video and sent them the SAME nasty email.
So, what’s worse? What’s the Difference between….
Videos like these of a guy getting FLOGGED in public….
… or a bunch of Gay Men being goofy for the camera with a little Silly “Forced” Feminization?
I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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ff (forced feminization), hehe, is a direct assault on the “man at the top of the pyramid” paradigm that this country was founded on.
men can hit other men but you can’t kiss them.
funny how daily motion always takes down men on men fetish videos (or puts “elicit content”) on them but lets the straight ones pass easy.
by the way ruffy, you is looking so hot. i love how Richard restrains ya so easily. hehe. HOW MUCH ARE YOU ANYWAY?
–marky
I wouldn’t call it censorship, since they aren’t keeping you from expressing yourself or posting the same video elsewhere.
Video sharing websites are private properties owned by the companies that provide them. Google can do anything it wants.
However, if they are unfair and uneven in maintaining their Community Guidelines and allow their homophobic users to successfully take down gay oriented videos, then they are discriminating against GLBT people.
I’m sure that this is just a side effect that a small but significant number of the American population is harshly bigoted against gay people and take any opportunity to silence these voices whenever they can.
So any video that is edgy, weird or obtuse but doesn’t actually violate guidelines gets taken down.
“I don’t understand it, so I think it’s wrong and it’s going down.”