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So flag it, don't link to it.

Pithecanthropus wrote:

So flag it, don't link to it.

I did flag it, but I happen to know it has been flagged before by others yet google (who owns YouTube) leaves it. My guess is profit motive, lot of people view those types of snuff videos and since the animal isn't cute a furry, the community outrage is small - so google would rather try to get the add revenue than do the right thing.

I'm thinking of starting a web site showing blatant animal abuse cases on YouTube with the date they they were first flagged by me - should be good ammunition for groups like PETA if google doesn't start enforcing their own policies against cruelty to animal videos.

Hell - I may go one further and ask if anyone knows the individuals involved so they can be reported to law enforcement.

Last edited by resedit (2009-06-20 5:41 pm)

resedit wrote:

Pithecanthropus wrote:

So flag it, don't link to it.

I did flag it, but I happen to know it has been flagged before by others yet google (who owns YouTube) leaves it. My guess is profit motive, lot of people view those types of snuff videos and since the animal isn't cute a furry, the community outrage is small - so google would rather try to get the add revenue than do the right thing.

I'm thinking of starting a web site showing blatant animal abuse cases on YouTube with the date they they were first flagged by me - should be good ammunition for groups like PETA if google doesn't start enforcing their own policies against cruelty to animal videos.

Hell - I may go one further and ask if anyone knows the individuals involved so they can be reported to law enforcement.

I agree with your sentiments but don't bring the Birkenstock Nazis into it.
The ASPCA would be better.

This is one more reason it sucks that YouTube carefully buries their contact information where nobody can ever find it. If you click on "help" or "contact us" or something, and then click through about a thousand "help" pages designed to prevent you from actually contacting them, you will eventually arrive at a form you can fill out in order to write to them about this. I suggest that you do so, and provide them with links to the video in question, as well as to the channel page of the user who uploaded the video.

I seriously doubt that YouTube or Google feels any profit-motive to leave such videos on there. This is just a case of lame, corporate bureaucracy being lame, corporate, and bureaucratic.

Personally, I've flagged numerous videos of a similar nature, and I've written numerous letters of complaint regarding such videos, not to mention the occasional "white power" channel. Who knows if it does any good? It can't hurt though, and it's not like YouTube will even be aware of it if they don't hear from viewers like us.

Pariah wrote:

I agree with your sentiments but don't bring the Birkenstock Nazis into it.

Hey now! I wear Birkenstocks. But I'm not a Nazi about it.

Honest!

Last edited by Pithecanthropus (2009-06-22 11:38 am)

My mom wears them - with socks.
I tried to tell her about fashion. She seems to care more about comfort, and informed me she gladly would wear shoes with socks instead if I could find her some shoes that were as comfortable.

resedit wrote:

My mom wears them - with socks.
I tried to tell her about fashion. She seems to care more about comfort, and informed me she gladly would wear shoes with socks instead if I could find her some shoes that were as comfortable.

Confession:

I wear birks & socks.

In winter/cold weather, good wool socks & birks.

Just around the house -not in public.
Works for me. The wool sock keeps my feet warm, but lets them breathe.

I wear socks with my Birks, too. I have never understood the "taboo" against it, and frankly don't care.

I could see myself wearing Birkenstocks if they were made of black PVC and came with five-inch platform heels.

Those are a little too conservative looking.

Bren wrote:

Those are a little too conservative looking.

Well I sure wouldn't call birks sexy.