The fact is politics and morality are inherently intermingled. One can use words like extremist, but sometimes the extremists are the "correct" ones (like our founding fathers who orchestrated a revolution). How could any system consistently categorize "appropriate" videos without making moral judgements?
But from the "right side" of an ideology, those are the freedom fighters, visionaries, defenders, Founding Fathers, Underground Railroad, idealists, etc.
Controlling vocabulary is a very powerful tactic in politics, as illustrated in 1984. People respond in very predictable ways to certain words, hence their power.
That's probably why footage of the American military usually doesn't get taken down. Our military kills from a thermal view half a mile away.
Your comments would have to mean YouTube/Goolge is a Syrian Company not a American Company when it pertains to the Topic at hand.
Your Analogy is simply defunct on many levels, further your switch from British Companies supporting the revolution, to "Google Supporting anything new or different" is nonsensical. Google supports all kinds of "New and Different" things that will likely change the face of society in profound ways, things like AI, Self Driving Cars and other Moonshot Programs.
No I really do not understand what point your driving at here
Yes, because there was little or no risk for them. Google will happily side with the revolution in Bangladesh or Gambia, not in the US.
Did I miss something? Is there massive Conflict in the US? Is their an active Violent Revolution happening? Because if you think the clashes that have occurred at protests between Anti-Fa and the Nazi;s equate to "Violent Revolution" then you will be in for a shocking awakening if the unthinkable occurs and the US does find itself in an actual violent revolution or civil war again.
The last US Civil war took the lives of 2% of the population, to put that into context if happening today that would that would be 6.5 Million people killed.
No, the US is not involved in a Violent Revolution Google needs to pick a side over, and you should pray that day never comes
Further the idea that Trump is a threat to Military, Manufacturing, or many other industries is equally absurd, you may have a small case for Tech but I think that is over stated.
Trump is a HUGE supporter of Military and by extension military contractors, wanting to increase the military expenditure by large margin.
Protectionist policies often Aid US Manufacturing at the expense of Cheap Imports from China, so US Manufacturer, actual manufacturers that are making stuff in the US, not Foreign importers which are often confused as "Manufacturers" support Trump
Sounds like you might be in a Echo Chamber...
To really give the military a huge boost, they need more wars. You can't spend much on "defense" without ongoing wars or big threats... it maxes out pretty quickly. How will Trump justify more wars? When Bush ran the 2000 campaign, one of the messages was to get out of foreign wars. If 9/11 hadn't happened, the military industry would have suffered greatly. 9/11 happened, and every war was justified until recently because "terrorists".
Now the best prospects they have are North Korea, which is a joke, and ISIS, which the US and allies have created to defeat Syria. When they finally realize that none of these will fly, they will try to get rid of Trump and take matters to Russia and hence Syria again... which they have been trying since after he won.
>Protectionist policies often Aid US Manufacturing at the expense of Cheap Imports from China
One can't actually implement protectionist policies without being heavily biased towards big industries. If this happens, everyone, including people who side with Trump will cry corruption. There is no way to do it right... and if you think Trump will be able to pull it off from a Republican platform, you are very out of touch. Even if the big players pretend that it is okay (because it doesn't affect them as much), it is definitely not okay because they are forced to price their products up because they are not allowed to do business as they would like to.
The other distinction is that with political speech is that if you screw up that line you hamper criticism of authoritarian regimes (for example). If you set the bar too tight on your porn filter, it's much less likely you stifling political progress.
A decision to attempt to remain neutral should be carefully considered.
They have chosen to try to stop ISIS recruitment by videos hosted on their site. That is their prerogative.
They can't. We've entered an era where a disagreeable tweet is - in the mind of some people - a good reason to dox you and destroy your life. This extends to companies. Your ad shows up next to an opinion piece that they disagree with? Time to start a #activist campaign to boycott your company and mention how you would probably sell your goods to Hitler and your board is full of white patriarchs who are probably racist, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrants, anti-women, and closet Neo Nazis.
The companies are also to blame since they've been mostly spineless. Save a few companies, they fold and pull their advertising the minute these #activists put them in their sights.
To an advertising delivery company like Youtube, which is probably barely at breakeven, losing advertising dollars is crushing. Over the years they've been slowly reducing how much money they bleed, so a reversal of the trend is grounds for alarm.
So Youtube has to either ween itself off advertising (virtually impossible, since Google is an advertising company) or make sure the content is advertiser friendly.
> How could any system consistently categorize "appropriate" videos without making moral judgements?
Politics and morality are inherently intermingled, I agree.
Appropriateness and morality are the same concept.
Why not? Answer without making a moral statement.
Furthermore, utilitarianism is a moral position. Why would you prefer a world where your daughter doesn't have nightmares over one where she does?
Your daughter would probably stop having nightmares if you gave her more exposure to that kind of video, too.