[HN Gopher] A WWII documentary series is being demonetized by Yo...
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A WWII documentary series is being demonetized by YouTube [video]
Author : comeonbro
Score : 35 points
Date : 2023-09-03 17:37 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| penjelly wrote:
| this guy covers wars "in real time". Really cool videos
| nextworddev wrote:
| What's the background behind this?
| comeonbro wrote:
| 'World War Two' is an enormous documentary project that's been
| following WWII week-by-week in ~real-time for the past 5 years.
|
| Its content is increasingly being age-restricted and demonetized
| by YouTube.
| extraduder_ire wrote:
| The D-day hour-by-hour 24 hour coverage was great, even if it
| took me a few weeks to watch all of it. Still need to watch the
| Pearl Harbor videos.
| barelysapient wrote:
| The video mentions an exception for educational content. Fine,
| but who decides what is educational? What about some of the truly
| horrific WW2 content. Is that educational? Hard to blame YouTube
| for being very cautious here.
| manuelmoreale wrote:
| Isn't learning history educational? And yes, some history is
| horrific but I don't see the problem with that.
|
| I was in elementary school when we took a field trip to see a
| ww2 concentration camp.
|
| Was that appropriate for our age? Hard to say. Did I still
| remember it all these years later? Yes. Was it educational?
| Also yes.
| ianai wrote:
| (US) I think every year in public school for me included a
| WWII/Holocaust remembrance period. I think across both
| literature/English and history classes.
|
| Seems like public education doesn't do that anymore. And
| society is much worse off.
| manuelmoreale wrote:
| I'm in northern Italy. Traces of those wars are literally
| everywhere. One of the largest war memorials is near here
| [0]
|
| Learning history is important. And it's educational. And if
| to learn it you have to see something gruesome, so be it.
|
| [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redipuglia_War_Memorial
| ianai wrote:
| And of course we must avoid presentism https://en.wikiped
| ia.org/wiki/Presentism_(literary_and_histo...
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| History is many things including terrible and gruesome.
| But ignorance of history is no answer.
| barelysapient wrote:
| I like your example because its a specific, physical place.
| Probably part of a syllabus for your class. And hard to argue
| that, in this context, a profound and educational experience.
|
| Now contrast that with online 'educational' content. That's
| way to vague. One could argue that really just about
| _anything_ is educational. But that same thing in the eyes of
| another person is pornography, extreme violence, or a hate
| crime.
|
| Take executions. There's footage of illegal executions in
| Word War 2, and recently with ISIS. Are both of those
| educational? Maybe with the right context and in a
| curriculum, sure. But gosh, sure seems it should at least be
| age restricted on Youtube.
|
| I think we have two choices to fix this: First, if the
| regulators want an educational carve out they need to get
| incredibly clear what is and is not educational.
|
| Or, barring that, then lets create an "educational" platform
| that can host this sort of content. You know, like OnlyFans,
| but for "educational" topics.
| fyrn_ wrote:
| Google finds itself in a postion of largely unchecked power
| over many users of its platform, that rely on it for primary
| income. These people work in an environment without any of the
| typical legal protections around their livelyhood, so I think
| we should be cautious to side against the worker, if only in
| the spirit of labor day weekend.
| barelysapient wrote:
| I like this, and wonder if employee style protections for
| Youtube content creators isn't warranted.
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