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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."
They thought it was unfair how the few people who actually read the articles have a huge advantage in discussing them, so they decided to level the playing field.
When someone says, "Any fool can see
personally know several people who have been robbed using Arnold Schwarzenegger as a deadly weapon. They call the victim's "California Taxpayers" :)
(jk - I think he has been lowering taxes)
With a name like "Foobar of Borg"? Please. At worst you assimilate people. More likely, though, you just run around at Star Trek conventions, pretending that you matter.
There have already been calls in this country to ban kitchen knives with a point, I shit you not. Some chefs have said that you can use knives without points for most things anyway, and that pointless knives are the norm in China and they do OK.
Others point out that gang violence in China simply involves fatal hackings instead of fatal stabbings.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
Ain't that just like an american, to bring guns to a knife discussion.
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.