Google's You Tube Has Learned Well From Its Chinese Teachers
Back in January, Fairly Civil commented on the so-called L.A. Gang Tour (“Why the Los Angeles Gang Tour and the Sicilian Mafia are Bad Ideas”). You can read the post here. Basically, the thrust of it is that the L.A. tour is superficial and simply encourages self-hating despair. Most importantly, the “tour” does not include venues that might show the real consequences of gang violence, like trauma units and paraplegic wards.
Embedded in the blog was a link to a short video that had been posted on YouTube. The video described the gangs as sweat shops for the drug trade and had actual pictures of actual gunshot victims shot by actual gangsters.
All that reality was too much for Google/You Tube/Chinese style censors.
Yesterday, without prior warning or notice, YouTube informed the video’s poster that it had been “disabled.” The explanation offered was that the images of actual gang gunshot victims was merely shocking. Unlike the many hundreds of viewers who had watched the video, YouTube’s anonymous censors did not “get” that the video was an editorial precisely against gang violence!
One can only assume that one of the LA gangster world’s bought-and-paid-for-politicians got to YouTube (or some weepy thug-hugger).
No matter. To paraphrase the inimitable Gen. Douglas MacArthur: The Video Shall Return! Fairly Civil will find another host site and re-post the new link.
Most likely, this stuff goes on every day. But America’s actual news media — if such a thing still exists — have no interest in reporting it.
Like frogs in a pan of cold water over a high flame, they are content to be boiled alive.
Pathetic.
