Video Ban

Posted on September 14, 2008

Google has recently placed a ban on certain videos being uploaded to YouTube and GoogleVideo.

I don’t know if we should feel any safer now that these types of videos have been rejected but there are a lot of crazies out there and no sense ‘arming’ them with information. Hopefully, some of them are dumb enough that the only way they know to find out how to carry out nefarious activities is on YouTube.

Specifically, Google is banning videos “intended to incite violence or encourage dangerous, illegal activities that have an inherent risk of serious physical harm or death.”

Hopefully, they are also including videos with stupid, death-defying stunts that incite copycats to try and die. There’s just nothing good to be said for killing yourself or others.

Of course, what they can no longer find on YouTube, they can probably find on TV — the vast wastekand.

Evidently, YouTube was being used by Islamist terrorist organizations to recruit and train followers via the internet and to incite terrorist attacks around the world.

Here are the specifics of YouTube’s updated “Community Guidelines”, which you need to follow before uploading your next video.

“While it might not seem fair to say you can’t show something because of what viewers theoretically might do in response, we draw the line at content that’s intended to incite violence or encourage dangerous, illegal activities that have an inherent risk of serious physical harm or death. This means not posting videos on things like instructional bomb making, ninja assassin training, sniper attacks, videos that train terrorists, or tips on illegal street racing. Any depictions like these should be educational or documentary and shouldn’t be designed to help or encourage others to imitate them.”