YouTube Censorship
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3 December 2020
YouTube, like many social media platforms, has reacted to the Trump administration by cracking down on anything potentially objectionable. My first video caught in this net was one of Alora and Brittan jumping on the bed in our apartment on North Avenue. They took turns holding onto my hands and sometimes fell. This was marked by YouTube as "child abuse". I guess everything can be seen in a negative light. But letting your kids fall as child abuse? I can't understand how a rational person can believe that.
Today I lost one of the kids' funniest videos on YouTube: The Wrongest Movie Ever. I let the kids pretend to be Nazis and act goofy. Adding Maxwell playing with the globe in homage to Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator was my small contribution. It's funny in the same way The Producers is funny. But apparently not to YouTube. They said it was "insighting violence". If kids can't make fun of Nazis on the internet who exactly are they protecting?
