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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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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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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...
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Sorry, Alex Jones is too busy covering gay tadpoles to write a story about this.
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