Should YouTube Remove Videos That Degrade Women?
Nov 25th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video
The Taipei Times reports that YouTube is censoring its site in Taiwan by removing music videos that are degrading to women:
YouTube decided on Thursday to remove a series of music videos degrading Taiwanese women after angry reports from the Taiwanese public and media.
Over the past months, a YouTube user who dubbed himself “Handsome Hong Kong Guy” (ȶôÊ∏ØÂ∏•Âì•) had uploaded a series of music videos titled “Dirty Ditty” (Á≤óÂè£Ê≠å) on the YouTube Web site.
The music videos of several well-known Taiwanese folk songs included lyrics that had been changed to make derogatory comments about Taiwanese women.
Although YouTube declined to respond when asked whether the videos in question had been removed, users found that while searches for “Handsome Hong Kong Guy” or “Dirty Ditty” displayed results, but further attempts to access the contents loaded messages indicating that the videos have been removed due to violations of the site’s terms of use.
In July of this year, YouTube also removed videos featuring someone singing songs degrading to Korean women.
We can empathize with the desire to remove content that is degrading to women from YouTube. But when you start censoring the site, where do you stop?
If you took away all the booty rap videos, misognystic comedians, tits videos, hot chicks doing stupid sh*t, and Miss Teen USA, you might not be left with much more than the likes of this video:
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yes they should delete them