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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 08:34 PM Nov 2020

Is there anything short of pornography or solicitation to commit murder that is

"off limits" as far as You Tube is concerned. I check it mostly to find interesting items to send to my grandkids, but the amateurish right wing slander and incitements to the militia fans are getting to be too much to wade through.

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Is there anything short of pornography or solicitation to commit murder that is (Original Post) Atticus Nov 2020 OP
Certainly not in the US of A RainCaster Nov 2020 #1
They are fairly hard-assed about copyright infringement. RockRaven Nov 2020 #2

RainCaster

(10,941 posts)
1. Certainly not in the US of A
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 08:55 PM
Nov 2020

Pretty much anything goes here, according to Google, the parent company. But if you live in Saudi Arabia or Singapore and you want videos critical of your government, you can find yourself reported to the Powers That Be.

RockRaven

(15,062 posts)
2. They are fairly hard-assed about copyright infringement.
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 09:10 PM
Nov 2020

Not out of any sense of justice, just ass-covering. But they also do it in a highly automated, lazy fashion which defaults to a "favor the copyright holders (usually corporations), stomp on the video makers, without even checking to see who is right" mode of action.

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