The Rant Thread/My Life Sucks Topic [Don't be pricks]

[Dudeman]

Doesn't change the fact that it's censorship and is basically requiring people who do YouTube for a living to say and discuss only what YouTube allows them to in order to stay in business. I'm not big on swears either but if you don't like the amount of language that someone uses, there's an easy solution: just don't watch their stuff.

[mikey]

All one would have to do is place censorship beeps over their cuss words to continue profiting

[Dudeman]

I'm pretty sure that the list of "acceptable" words is hilariously small, which is part of the problem. You'd be bleeping out an ungodly amount of words.

[mikey]

what's most likely happening is everyone's overreacting and the world will continue to spin

[Zunawe]

You want to remove many people's only major source of income because they use a few profanities? Children hearing bad words on the internet is not a crisis, and it's not the fault of the people making content.

[mikey]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2016/09/01/new-advertiser-friendly-youtube-policy-isnt-actually-new-isnt-censorship/#5043a34b2c44


oh ok
yep this is the internet overreacting

[Olimar12345]

I fucking love hearing those shitty-ass curse words on those dank-as-fuck youtube videos.

(warning: swears)

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

The threat of non advertisement is definitely not something that's been up in the air before.
Keep in mind that this is just YouTube making this decision, too; advertisers have little to no control as to where in each specific category their ads go. That's why you'll find fracking ads or NRA ads on place like The Young Turks.
Curse words, whether you like them or not, shouldn't be grounds to defund someone. If that were the case for all cable news or speeches of any kind, Donald Trump would've gone bankrupt a 5th time.

[mikey]

ok so apparently donald trump never goes bankrupt
sometimes when one of his companies isn't profiting he files for bankruptcy to save money, not because he's losing money

and again this isn't new, people who get flagged for inappropriate content will just be flagged more often

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

The Trump thing was just a joke, but about the title 9 issue with his businesses: if it becomes more profitable to tell the government you're bankrupt, you probably shouldn't have started the business/are a terrible businessperson.

[Bespinben]

But, but, parallel 4ths and tritones are my favorite curses! How will I express myself without them?

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

So I got stood up by a friend in a suburb 10 miles away from where I live. Buses don't come for another half an hour. It's 40 degrees (F) and all I'm wearing is a long sleeved shirt.

[braix]

"friend"

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

Yup.

[WaluigiTime64]

So I got stood up by a friend in a suburb 10 miles away from where I live. Buses don't come for another half an hour. It's 40 degrees (F) and all I'm wearing is a long sleeved shirt.

Were you not wearing any pants