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Youtube censors education movies

SE [PersonRank 2]

Thursday, September 3, 2009
14 years ago2,506 views

Why is this video unsuitable for minors? They are the people who should be watching this. It's an education film from Tredegar Comprehensive School and Gwent Police. How fundamentalistic is USA?

"PSA Texting and Driving, U.K., August 2009, (HQ) Master Original Video”
This video or group may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as flagged by YouTube's user community.
By clicking "Confirm", you are agreeing that all videos or groups flagged by the YouTube community will be viewable by this account."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I54mlK0kVw

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

First of all, the video is not censored, as it's still available. Second of all, YouTube's users and not YouTube flagged the video as unsuitable for minors.

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Maybe it was flagged for the Tom Jones spam at 4:13 and also somewhere in the middle.

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

> YouTube's users and not YouTube flagged the video as
> unsuitable for minors

No, Google's algorithms flagged the video. One of the inputs for the algorithms presumably comes from users who report the video.

Unless we know how the algorithms work (and what the YouTube users did) we can't make a blanket statement like "YouTube's users flagged the video as unsuitable for minors".

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

YouTube itself says:

"This video or group may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, *as flagged by YouTube's user community*. "

SE [PersonRank 2]

14 years ago #

It's censored for minors. "To view this video or group, please verify you are 18 or older".
Thank god they will show it in schools.

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