YouTube Bans Gun and Knife Videos In the UK

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 20, 2008 @05:50PM from the long-chain-of-abuses-and-usurpations dept.

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:can't get to TFA. by Translation+Error · 2008-09-20 18:09 · Score: 5, Funny

The link in the summary goes to "http://slashdot.org/ahref=". Nice.
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.

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Re:'cause everyone knows by h4rm0ny · 2008-09-21 02:30 · Score: 5, Funny

Ain't that just like an american, to bring guns to a knife discussion.

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