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YouTube Bans North Korea's State-Owned TV Channel (asiancorrespondent.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Asian Correspondent: YouTube has blocked North Korea's state television channel, purportedly to avoid breaching U.S. sanctions against the totalitarian state. The Korean Central Television's page, which broadcasts breaking news videos including Pyongyang's nuclear tests and leader Kim Jong Un's outings, now has a message saying "the account has been terminated for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines." YouTube's community guidelines bans harmful, dangerous, violent and graphic content, as well as videos that violate copyright laws or that contain threats and that may incite others to commit violence. According to The Washington Post, the action to terminate the account was taken in November because the North Korean government could earn money from YouTube through advertisements, which would in turn violate a U.S. directive that bans any person or company from doing business with the hermit state.
North Korea's hilariously biased and propagandistic channel is amazingly even worse than what we get here for domestic consumption.
Although that may be debatable... it's not like North Korea got lied into multiple wars in the Middle East...
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They could have kept any ad revenue in a trust for when N. Korea freed itself from despotic Kim resigm or Korean reunification. Reunification alone will be multi-decade and multi-billion dollar per year project. Think German reunification in steroids. Whole population will need to be unbrainwashed and whole generation of people have to be provided for by the South Korean government.
So if the WaPo is right and the account was terminated because of US sanctions and NK making money from advertising, why did the OP include the sentence about the community guidelines? To have people focus on the copyright, threats, and/or violence part of the sentence?
Now we get less media about the bad behavior of the DPRK and less examples of Government propaganda to scrutinize. The US Constitution was the first to codify a freedom of speech. Nowhere does it say one should or can censor information. Why? The best way to come to good conclusions is to see the bad arguments as well as the good, and the fastest way to come to those conclusions is by having more information available.
Youtube does not have to pay the DPRK for views like it does others, so that is not the issue. This is about showing how "good" censorship is to set the normal for everyone else. Shame on Youtube!
Before posting how Youtube is not Government, notice that I did not say they were. My point is about ideology, not about Government.
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So why didn't they just turn off the monetization option on North Korea's channel instead of banning them outright? Not that I'm complaining about missing their horrible propaganda, but this is surely the first step of their plan to remove dissent from the internet.
Or they could just demonetize the offending channel if sending them money is the problem? It's entirely up to Google whether or not to send NK money for things on their channel. Not like NK is going to sue them in a US court over it or something.
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They always say "North Career" in their propaganda films.
How did I not know about this before now? It sounds interesting/hilarious. Were there subtitles? (No, youtube's autogenerated subtitles don't count)
And just disable monetization, holy shit. Silicon Valley really is becoming the Ministry of Truth. Easier for them than the government; no pesky first amendment to get in the way.
All Glorious Leader! All The Time! He so ronery after all...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
That's bullshit. Just turn off monetization for their channel. They do it to other people all the time for lessor reasons. WTF is going on here?
Ok, I can see where this is coming from, but if propaganda is out now, pretty much every news outlet along with every blogger would have to get banned. What's left is cat videos.
Then again... I doubt it would lower quality noticeably...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
nyt, cnn, wapo and msnbc does not like competition
No nation on this Earth are more despicable than the partners-in-blood and terror, Israel and Saudi Arabia. But these Siamese Twins never have to worry about having their anti-Human propaganda wiped from anywhere on the Net.
While Google is busy dropping North Korea into the Orwellian memory hole, it is busy desiging the AUTONOMOUS MURDER MACHINES that it hopes Saudia Arabia and Israel will use to 'safely' genocide the population of Iran (I trust everyone here knows Google is the no.1 military robot R+D company on the planet). But then, "do nothing but evil" has always been Google's motto.
If the true reason for blocking the channel was due to concerns of ad revenue, then use the existing mechanisms for blocking monetisation.
DPRK news is best news.
of course it's parody you fools
It's completely legal for American citizens to visit North Korea. Any money spent there goes to the Kim regime. Isn't that "doing business"?
US government censors government propaganda it is opposed to. Or at least that would be the title if this happened in another country that we aren't happy with.
North Korean propaganda is so B-52's and volcanoes over the top anyone not already hopelessly brainwashed just finds it amusing for the shock value and quickly loses interest.
North Koreans really need to ditch high strung bitches continuously shouting and tone it down to VOA/RT/CNN/Havana levels. You have to be willing to provide at least some useful or entertaining information if you expect to garner any type of audience.
Regardless you can just not allow people to collect profits from the videos saying your banning them for the stated reason on its face is malarkey.
The whole state will soon reach Enlightenment due to this extensive period of contemplation.
On the subject, Youtube should have the ability to restrict or deny ad revenue case by case basis to avoid unnecessary removal of content. Call it the "non-profit" content class. It would be better for the society, it would be better for the world.
If the goal is to organize the world's information, it doesn't make any sense to drop the only source of information from the DPRK. Granted it's a terrible source, but this solution still makes no sense. It's reasonable to try to identify fake news. Maybe this channel deserves a disclaimer. But to cut it off is really inane. I wonder if this was reviewed by a human or just an algorithmic failure.
This is their move into politics. Like kiddy porn and similar red button stuff, North Korean broadcasting is the far end of the spectrum. But it is a spectrum. I would expect the standards to slowly shift to the point where anything the US fuhrer of the moment deems inappropriate will be censored.
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But don't allow the posts to block or censor comments... that should make for fun times.
A site thst offer frree (as in beer) hosting and streaming foe videos decides to not offer that free service to a certain (person, urganisation, wharever) and this is news? Ok I'll admit, yputube has (at least to a lot of people) become synonymous with interner video (appart from porn), but tha fact remains "He who pays the bills decides what gets shown, was it lightly that this nk propagand. Hannel recived to many ad dollars or eas youtube actualy footing the bill for distributing nk propaganda?
How does it feel to not be able to see what (((they))) don't want you to see?
Owned by Google, it's Irish.
While I might not agree with how North Korea is run, I think there is just as much anti-North Korea propaganda from the West.
The top 1% doesn't want the peasants to get any ideas and nationalize things. But, building nuclear weapons seems pretty wasteful too, and the sanctions can't help. But, being outside the global monetary banking system might not be the worst idea either. If they bicycled more, lifted the ban on porn, and produced more domestic energy, life might not be horrible.
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You people haven't got around solving your religious problems with a proper war, diplomacy or ecumenism. How many centuries this self-loathing and self-repression has to go on? You'll just make sure your cultural and economic competitiveness is terrible in terms of the whole religious community. It just like domestic violence, it is inherited and it destroys your communities and prevents wealth and knowledge accumulation. There is not much time either, as oil is running out.