YouTube Bans Gun and Knife Videos In the UK

PatPending writes with a depressing excerpt from the UK's Metro: "The Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube has decided to introduce the ban [on weapons-related videos] for the UK only amid widespread unease about the increase in knife crime in the country. 'We recognise that there has been particular concern over videos in the UK that involve showing weapons with the aim of intimidation, and this is one of the areas we are addressing,' a YouTube spokesperson said. 'I would like to see other internet service providers follow suit to reinforce our message that violence will not be tolerated either on the internet or in the real world,' she said."

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Re:'cause everyone knows

[RiotingPacifist]

you know i just wasting feeling the flames enough so i thought id help you out.

How did the English, who once ruled a vast empire using slave bitches, become such sissified little bitches? Ban guns, gun crime skyrockes(I don't believe wikipeida when i look at the facts that show a reduction in gun crime immediately after the ban and continue to show much lower levels of gun crime & murder than the US, because wikipeida is full of shit eating faggots). Ban knives, knife crime escalates(Sure if you look it up in books, you'll see that theres no new law on knives at all and this escalation must have some other cause, but books are for pussies).

  BTW, if you like the way that England is going with this, vote Osama, he's got the same thing in mind for America, sure he hasn't told anybody yet, but thats because his just a lying nigger looking to steal your TV on his way to the mosque.

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Re:Do not be alarmed, all is well...

[Grym]

How is that "very clear"? the article doesn't mention any request from officials whatsoever.

According to the BBC,"MPs criticised video-sharing websites, including YouTube, in July, saying they should be doing more to vet content."

But back to the point - how does the Second Amendment stop Google from doing something similar in the USA?

Since your reading comprehension seems to be deficient, allow me to make it more clear for you. Google, the company which owns YouTube, a video site on the internet, is doing this at the (possibly informal) request of the United Kingdom, an overbearing government which does not value the right of an armed, empowered populace. Currently, in the United States of America, the Second Amendment to the Constitution upholds the right of the people to bear arms. This right is under increasing political attack, leaving many who recognize the utility of the Second Amendment to the Constitution left to wonder if the situation in the United Kingdom is a picture of things to come should said political attacks be successful.

-Grym

Re:Have you even looked?

[Jane Q. Public]

I would agree if it really were a controversial claim. As it is, however, I do not feel obligated to do the homework of someone who has not bothered to keep up with the news for the last 50 years.

I am not interested in a debate. My claim stands as it is. Others can go prove it or disprove it as they like... I have no interest in doing so.