<story><title>YouTube admits &apos;wrong call&apos; over deletion of Syrian war crime videos</title><url>http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/youtube-admits-wrong-call-over-deletion-syrian-war-crime-videos-1140126078</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexandercrohde</author><text>I think youtube needs to consider backing off regulating political content.&lt;p&gt;The fact is politics and morality are inherently intermingled. One can use words like extremist, but sometimes the extremists are the &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; ones (like our founding fathers who orchestrated a revolution). How could any system consistently categorize &amp;quot;appropriate&amp;quot; videos without making moral judgements?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clarkmoody</author><text>Interesting that we have a whole vocabulary of words reserved for those on the &amp;quot;wrong side&amp;quot;: insurrection, sedition, traitor, deserter, criminal, smuggler, terrorist, extremist, rebel, revolutionary, etc.&lt;p&gt;But from the &amp;quot;right side&amp;quot; of an ideology, those are the freedom fighters, visionaries, defenders, Founding Fathers, Underground Railroad, idealists, etc.&lt;p&gt;Controlling vocabulary is a very powerful tactic in politics, as illustrated in &lt;i&gt;1984&lt;/i&gt;. People respond in very predictable ways to certain words, hence their power.</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube admits &apos;wrong call&apos; over deletion of Syrian war crime videos</title><url>http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/youtube-admits-wrong-call-over-deletion-syrian-war-crime-videos-1140126078</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexandercrohde</author><text>I think youtube needs to consider backing off regulating political content.&lt;p&gt;The fact is politics and morality are inherently intermingled. One can use words like extremist, but sometimes the extremists are the &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; ones (like our founding fathers who orchestrated a revolution). How could any system consistently categorize &amp;quot;appropriate&amp;quot; videos without making moral judgements?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>secfirstmd</author><text>Agree but it&amp;#x27;s far easier for politicians (May, Rudd, Trump, Turnball, Putin, Netanyahu, Xi Jinping, Mugabe, Zuma, Chan-ocha, el-Sisi, Erdoğan, Khamenei, Maduro - the list is endless) to blame videos on Youtube for radicalising people then it is to tackle the long running political, historical and socio-economic grievances that fuel the fire.</text></comment>