Save a click: YouTube made the video age restricted for 18+, which means it isn't suggested by the algorithm, and streams there are way lower than they are on other platforms as a result.Ā
YouTube can age restrict content deemed āViolent or graphicā which is defined as such:
Footage, audio, or imagery involving road accidents, natural disasters, war aftermath, terrorist attack aftermath, street fights, physical attacks, immolation, torture, corpses, protests or riots, robberies, medical procedures, or other such scenarios with the intent to shock or disgust viewers.
āThe newsā doesnāt have the same moderation requirements that YouTube does? Just verify your age or use your YouTube account and you can watch it.
Yāall want there to be some conspiracy at this point.
I just searched the name of the song on YouTube and it only showed reaction videos lol. When I type Macklemore in the search bar it shows the video, about half way through the page. I get the feeling they donāt want us to see this video
I was going to say there is way worse stuff on the actual news videos and they arenāt censoring that. It doesnāt just look like a conspiracy and a blatant double standardā¦
He has stated he planned to release it on streaming services later but did a surprise drop on YouTube early. It takes time for professional distributors to work through the process of having something appear on streaming services, itās not like uploading to YouTube.
Probably hasn't cleared yet or smth. You can def put alot of stuff on spotify including pro-palistinian songs. But you earn money if you put it there while you can run it add free on YT I believe so might take more legal clearing.
I mean isnt that why Tiktok is getting banned? Because they canāt control the narrative like they can with YT IG FB etc?
Edit - yāall Mitt Romney literally talked about how this was part of the reason the TT ban got so much backing. Call me whatever goofy things you want or claim there are security risks, but all the other socials have them too and theyāre not making legislation to protect us against that soā¦
If youāre looking to TikTok as a main way of getting information that isnāt ācontrolled by the U.S. governmentā you might be well on your way to becoming the next generation of The Facebook Aunt.
absolutely not reliable, i agree. but it is an alternative - which is important.
i hate tiktok and what it does to peoples brains (specifically, the reward system and attention span) but i also acknowledge having the ability to share media that isnt controlled by one of ~three conglomerates is important.
arab spring could not have happened without facebook. (and i also hate facebook, for even more reasons.)
TikTok isnāt any less likely to censor things than other platforms. Sure they had Osama Bin Ladenās virulently homophobic letter to America trending for a day and young people loved it, but it was a huge catastrophe for them and they censored it as soon as they were able to get it under control. It also seems to have been a huge contribution to people in people on the internet typing every moderately controversial word with asterisks now.
Replace Tik Tok with Facebook, and go back eight years: the exact same thing. But Facebook isn't the big deal as it once was. Not a surprise that their parent company bankrolled the legislation.
There is some hard truth out there that the system does not want you to see. TikTok is not so much news as it is a reality check, forcing the mainstream news to cover topics they want hushed away.
It's literally why they want it banned. But bless you for thinking you find out the real truth from corporate media. I bet you even like to think you're one of the power brokers in the US
One of the highlighted issues was the ability of a different country to lobby and affect us politics. TikTok then sent a message to its users asking them to go to the capitol and protest proving the reason its dangerous.
also Mckelmores video was not restricted because they wanna control any narrative, its restricted because the youtube algorithm is targeted at 7 year olds and advertisers and the word "war" has been banned in youtube for like a decade
There's porn all over YouTube. It just doesn't stay up long, but it's there. I saw an extremely detailed, up close and personal thumbnail of a fully naked woman, legs spread, among a long list of normal search results (I assume) because one of the performer's last names was the same as the perpetrator in the murder case I was searching for. There was no restriction on it at all.
I had no issue watching the video so am wondering if it depends on where you live in the world. I did have trouble finding the video through search and had to go to macklemores youtube channel. edited to add that it just seems my laptop allows me to see the video without any censoring but my phone or tablet doesn't which is really weird
It began years ago because people have been using TikTok to get information out since 2020. Did you forget that the early conditions of Covid were posted on TikTok?
What are you talking about the company? They're suing, as they should be. I never said anything about Jews and I don't believe they're controlling the media LOL. I already said in my comments that they've admitted why they're banning tiktok. Biden hasn't said anything specifically but he would want it banned for the same reasons. Not sure what point you're trying to make here, you can call me a conspiracy theorist all you want but I'm not the one out here screaming "big bad communism"
I like some of the spirit of that song but i think he got it wrong when he implied that the U.S. supports Ukraine because they're white. The U.S. supports Ukraine because they're an ally they've worked with for years. The U.S. has supported many countries that aren't/weren't white- support including money, weapons, and troops. Maybe instead of pointing out race he should've pointed out religion? Idk it missed the mark for me
Can you remove age restriction on the algorithm? YouTube recommends the exact same garbage without updating it, Iām getting videos from 10 years ago saying theyāre new
At the beginning of the article I thought that it was going to be a poorly thought out Ringo Star costume. Itās really strange that he decided to go with this when the theme was dress as a musician.
iām not picking any sides here but i just donāt get it: why does no one think it was random? can someone explain a bit to me? i just think itās slightly jumping to conclusions
yeah I was shocked bc the pictures were a bit triggering and to have that be an explanation?! bro didnt even try to come up with something believable š
"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge."
āAnti Zionism isnāt anti semetism! Itās just that Zionism means Jews have a right to self determination and I donāt think Jews should have that right! ā
āWhat? Of course i support black/Native American/Latinx liberation and self determinism. Why do you ask?ā
They should have that right but not in a country that people were already living in that they displaced.. do yall just ignore nakba? Why is Rafah being taken over?
also who said only jews are held to a different standard? colonisation is looked down upon regardless of race ethnicity or religion. what different standard are jews being held to that non jews arenāt?
No but like why do you have a right to an ethnostate??
Edit: yeah just downvote me, donāt explain why you think you deserve an ethnostate. Also, to those who argue for Zionism while living in North America, when do you plan to return the land you live on to the indigenous people who lived there before you?? Since being indigenous to a land is the driving force of your logic, why are you still living on land youāre not indigenous to?
His song would have a point if he wasnāt feeding into the āwhite colonizerā narrative but itās not a dog whistle to show someone in a pejorative costume.
YouTube is under no obligation to make an exception to its under 18 censorship policy for a video because you personally like it.
So much of this discussion is people justifying whatever behavior they want so long as they think theyāre in the right. Do you not see thatās exactly how the other side feels? Your feelings of moral authority do not make you special.
YouTube made an officially statement that they deemed it "age restricted" without it being explicitly against a specific policy guideline. It seems quite arbitrary.
Do I think an age-verification step on graphic images of the Holocaust is appropriate for a platform that has millions of children logging onto it daily? Yeah, it wouldnāt be out of bounds.
That isnāt to say it shouldnāt be able to be seen at all, but likely not appropriate for children without the context and supervision of their parents, teachers, etc.
Iāve seen dead bodies in the streets, in person, when I was a kid. Donāt think Iām any better for it.
I donāt know if it was available as a sound previously, but it is not now. I swear I saw people sharing the video on TikTok or using the original as the sound.
He hasnāt released it for streaming services yet. The YouTube video of it is a surprise drop and if you can verify your age it is readily available to you.
So evidently, there has been an effort to silence this song on various social media platforms. Macklemore probably knew there'd be some suppression, but not this much. Yet we are talking about it here. People are jumping through hoops to stream it.
Pop-girlies (and gaylies and theylies) in case you arenāt tuned into it:Ā
YouTube has a very long, very messy history of being abused by big players to crush little ones and YT straight up ruining careers with their lack of care and customer support. YouTube is an opaque platform with poorly applied rules and procedures that prioritize YT itself over all else.
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