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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: Wingnut on June 07, 2019, 05:46:33 pm

Title: YouTube crackdown blocked history teachers who shared archive videos of Hitler
Post by: Wingnut on June 07, 2019, 05:46:33 pm
YouTube's crackdown on white supremacy and hate speech has ensnared history teachers who are trying to upload archival footage of Nazi dictator Adolph Hitler.

The Google-owned platform announced a series of policy changes that will likely see hundreds of thousands of videos removed from the platform, including those that glorify the Nazis, but several historians reported that their educational videos were also swept up in the ban.

Scott Allsop, who owns the MrAllsopHistory revision website and teaches at an international school in Romania, saw his YouTube channel featuring hundreds of clips on a wide range of historical topics taken down for running afoul of the hate speech rules.


“It’s absolutely vital that YouTube work to undo the damage caused by their indiscriminate implementation as soon as possible,” Allsop told The Guardian. “Access to important material is being denied wholesale as many other channels are left branded as promoting hate when they do nothing of the sort.”

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/youtube-crackdown-blocked-history-archive-hitler (https://www.foxnews.com/tech/youtube-crackdown-blocked-history-archive-hitler)
Title: Re: YouTube crackdown blocked history teachers who shared archive videos of Hitler
Post by: dfwgator on June 07, 2019, 05:58:52 pm
"First they came for the Nazis....."
Title: Re: YouTube crackdown blocked history teachers who shared archive videos of Hitler
Post by: Wingnut on June 07, 2019, 05:59:38 pm
Quote from: dfwgator on June 07, 2019, 05:58:52 pm
"First they came for the Nazis....."

Google is evil.  They are today's Nazi's.
Title: Re: YouTube crackdown blocked history teachers who shared archive videos of Hitler
Post by: dfwgator on June 07, 2019, 06:05:45 pm
Quote from: The Ghost on June 07, 2019, 05:59:38 pm
Google is evil.  They are today's Nazi's.

I actually watched a lot of Hitler videos on YouTube, it's good to watch without commentary to try to understand how he could take over Germany.

Whitewashing history is always a bad thing.
Title: Re: YouTube crackdown blocked history teachers who shared archive videos of Hitler
Post by: Wingnut on June 07, 2019, 06:12:22 pm
Quote from: dfwgator on June 07, 2019, 06:05:45 pm
I actually watched a lot of Hitler videos on YouTube, it's good to watch without commentary to try to understand how he could take over Germany.

Whitewashing history is always a bad thing.

I can't wait for the newest episode Of Hitler "You Tube Banned Me"

Edit:  Found it:

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBO5dh9qrIQ&ab_channel=Plankhead#)
Title: Re: YouTube crackdown blocked history teachers who shared archive videos of Hitler
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on June 07, 2019, 06:51:51 pm
Quote from: The Ghost on June 07, 2019, 06:12:22 pm
I can't wait for the newest episode Of Hitler "You Tube Banned Me"

Edit:  Found it:

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBO5dh9qrIQ&ab_channel=Plankhead#)
The devil's greatest victory is convincing people he does not exist.
Title: Re: YouTube crackdown blocked history teachers who shared archive videos of Hitler
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 07, 2019, 07:04:01 pm
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

--George Santayana.

"Those who do remember the past are doomed to repeat it because of the morons who cannot remember it."

--Cyber Liberty
Title: Re: YouTube crackdown blocked history teachers who shared archive videos of Hitler
Post by: dfwgator on June 07, 2019, 07:18:29 pm
Now they went and removed one of my favorite YT subscriptions,  which posted various radio broadcasts from WWII, including Hitler's speeches. 

Those Bastards!