Should YouTube Allow Artful Nudity?
from the but-think-of-the-commenters... dept
The EFF and the National Coalition Against Censorship are apparently asking YouTube to consider changing its policy with regards to nudity. Apparently, it will allow nudity if the video is from a film or TV show -- but not if it's user generated videos made for YouTube. Separately, YouTube suggests it will allow nudity with "some educational, documentary and scientific content, but only if that is the sole purpose of the video and it is not gratuitously graphic." The problem, according to the EFF and NCAC, is that there is no exception for work that is artistic in nature, and apparently YouTube recently removed the videos of a well-known artist, Amy Greenfield, for violating the "no nudity" policy. Now, this isn't actually a "censorship" issue, since YouTube is a private site, and not the government. So, honestly, I don't see any problem with YouTube deciding that it doesn't want that particular content on its site, but there is a separate issue raised here -- which is that, once again, the real issue is Google's lack of customer service -- something we've seen a lot of lately. One of the complaints is that Greenfield's videos were taken down with no recourse and no method for her to communicate with folks at YouTube to talk about getting them back online.






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It depends...
Hollywood studio nudity: OK
Independent video maker nudity: Not OK
The "big corporate club" in action? I guess membership has it privileges.
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Pornography is protected under the 1st amendment here in the US with specific caveats as a form of art. From Lap dances in bars being considered a performance art (and in Las Vegas, Nevada, are taxed as such) to the famous U.S. Supreme Court case of Hustler Magazine (Larry Flynt) v. Jerry Falwell.
So long as the people involved are all consenting adults.
Would an image or video of nude people riding the bus as if they were wearing clothes be considered artistic or pornography? Or is pornography strictly erotic in nature?
Maybe I've been on the internet for FAR too long to see where the line is drawn.
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Nudity on Youtube
Then, I thought maybe stuff like this is so controversial (womem rights, breast feeding in public and so on) they probably preferred to leave them with just a warning ("may not be suitable for minors").
I'm all for it and it's a pity Americans are so stuck up about nudity - here in Europe it's not such a big deal.
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But they're very much present on the site.
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rights n stuff
Stoopid people (present company excepted).
Copyright Me.
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tfp...
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Artful vs Awful
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Mainly we need labels
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Objection!
Give people an inch, and they'll soon demand a mile.
This is exactly what's happening here given this idiot named Amy Greenfield decided on her own accord to change the services she saw fit.
I don't believe Google, who gives people plenty of leeway to upload some rather ridiculous things, should be punished (or thought of doing so to its customers) for implementing a few restrictions, one of which being nudity.
Those who challenge "nudity is art" are the same that will turn around ten seconds later and scream "child pornography!" if the same approach is taken to children.
Google has every right to stand by this decision not to open up this can of worms, while trying to give people the choice to determine what's art, and what's pornography.
If people are that damn desperate for seeing nudity, the internet is more than sufficient to meet their desires.
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So let me get this straight... Natural is against the rules, but cyberbulling is perfectly hunky dory? wtf
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who cares
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They do need to move the line. Ether no nudity or nudity, I'll support them in ether decision, but I don't support their current policy.
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It's self-regulating.
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I wouldn't want to be judge of what is artistic
In order for Google to accept what is artistic, they have to become judges of what is artistic and what isn't. By comparison, it is easier to judge what is of scientific value or what has come out of a major studio.
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Or, are we still in the camp where parts of the body are dangerous to children?
Humans are an odd bunch.
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In November 2006, within a year of its launch, YouTube was purchased by Google Inc. in one of the most talked-about acquisitions to date.
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A video of a CHILD Breastfeeding with a warning: ("may not be suitable for minors").
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That's not true: they DO allow nudity. It just depends on who you are.
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Further, it's really easy to say 'This has educational and/or scientific merit.' or 'This does not have educational and/or scientific merit.'. It's really, really hard to say 'This is art.' or 'This is not art.'.
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They already do.
...they'll have to stop allowing children, and my kids and their friends will be pissed.
No, they'll just restrict some material to registered adults, like they already do.
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If that really made sense, then they would ban all videos from anyone other than Big Media. (Porn isn't the only thing that someone can object to, you know.)
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YouTube is a censor
Prudery is child abuse with good intentions and anyone who doubts that should be required to stand in a juvenile abortion/pregnancy/STI waiting room and explain why it is that if those young people lived in The Netherlands hardly any of them would be there. Is irrational prejudice against the human body really worth the life of even one young person? This policy is driven by commercial pressures founded on prejudice and myth.
What is even worse, because YouTube has a near monopoly, they are exporting harmful attitudes to the rest of the world.
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Should You Tube Show nudity
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YouTube should allow nudity. That is the kind of planet
All of all ages needs to be evaluated by one.
Furry nude art is constantly attached, and we should not stand for it any more, and give loving understanding to the furries,and not hatred at all. That art in all of its complexity should be allowed on youtube of any age depicted even as we see all ages from birth on up in nature before our eyes.
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Furries nude anthropomorphic art is the most art of all
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Furries nude anthropomorphic art is the most beutiful art of all
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Furries nude anthropomorphic art is the most beautiful art of all
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Furries nude anthropomorphic art is the most beautiful art of all
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Youtube is sinning by oppressing the furry nude,and sexual art.
Restore the video gay furry yiff {18+} Apologize to them. They did not harm you. Proverbes 3:30
Morality is not found in hatred.Stop engaging is warfare against furry nakedness, and Yiff sex. War is evil propagating white crosses. Be a peacemaker. Stop bending to hatred which is murder. 1 John 3:15 ,Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.Nakedness is not a sin. Youtube needs to know this. K J V1 Corinthians 11: 14Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering. Youtube is banning what is on their own body hating themselves. Youtube needs to accept all the furry art rejecting their religions waring mentality. The long hair is a covering. shame for the man is not being naked. Restore the video gay furry yiff {18+} Apologize to them. They did not harm you. Proverbes 3:30 Strive not with a man without a cause, if he hath done thee no harm. Youtube constantly strives against the furries. Tell me when you humble yourselves apologizing to them
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Youtube is sinning by oppressing the furry nude,and sexual art.
Did you get that youtube, relieve oppression not give it.
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Youtube is sinning by oppressing the furry nude,and sexual art.
Did you get that Youtube, relieve oppression not give it.
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People against the furry nude, and sexual art are against God who made it
Isaiah 1 >>
King James Version
17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
deleting one video after another is not relieving the oppressed. The videos showing people jumping from a tall building is accepted by YouTube. That is sick.
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Youtube needs to be slapped kicked, and punched for doing the same to the furry videos. Y
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Youtube is admitting that they are allowing all furry videos on youtube.
Sex and Porn Videos are Being Allowed on Youtube
WEBUPON.
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outube is admitting that they are allowing all furry videos on youtube.
Sex and Porn Videos are Being Allowed on Youtube
WEBUPON.
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Youtube does not tolerate the hate of others, but does not consider their own hatred
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Stop making the furry sad. Make the furry glad. Please?
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Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.The furry is a peace seeker. Seek it with them giving the furry Joy.
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Fantastic videos have been spit on by YouTube like Jesus was spit on.
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Fantastic videos have been spit on by YouTube like Jesus was spit on.
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Fantastic videos have been spit on by YouTube like Jesus was spit on.
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"Sex and Porn Videos are Being Allowed on Youtube" "Webupon"
I thought that Youtube was repenting of being a consuming monster chomping of furry videos, and banning harmless loving christlike people that harm no one from youtube. The hater in this instance is Youtube acting like the troll I report doing bad to me and others with Youtube banning the malicious hater. How can Youtube not be equally malicious in their hatred? Youtube is acting like the trolls I report to be banned. YouTube is being unequal. The devil is unequal.
Soon after reading the headline on WEBUPON Youtube treated the nude,nand sexual videos like a marksman shoots clay pidgins. Youtube is a malicious hater of natural things ending up hating their own natural nude sexual body.
People need to start loving their own bodies. When that happens people will stop treating the furry videos like a target at a shooting gallery.
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"Sex and Porn Videos are Being Allowed on Youtube" "Webupon"
I thought that Youtube was repenting of being a consuming monster chomping of furry videos, and banning harmless loving christlike people that harm no one from youtube. The hater in this instance is Youtube acting like the troll I report doing bad to me and others with Youtube banning the malicious hater. How can Youtube not be equally malicious in their hatred? Youtube is acting like the trolls I report to be banned. YouTube is being unequal. The devil is unequal.
Soon after reading the headline on WEBUPON Youtube treated the nude, and sexual videos like a marksman shoots clay pidgins. Youtube is a malicious hater of natural things ending up hating their own natural nude sexual body.
People need to start loving their own bodies. When that happens people will stop treating the furry videos like a target at a shooting gallery.
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The Los Angeles Times reports that YouTube admitted to their mistake in banning Upton's video, which she made with fashion photographer Terry Richardson. The Times published this statement from YouTube about the "Cat Daddy" video: "With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call. When it's brought to our attention that a video has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it."
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Youtube is acting like the lying religious people that were against Jesus, and Lazarus.
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Furry nude, and sexual art.
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Furry nude, and sexual art.
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9 places in KJV says the heart figuratively is to be circumcised not the penis tip at all. Deuteronomy 30:6, Deuteronomy 10:16 ;Jeremiah 4:4 , Jeremiah 9:26; Colossians 2:11-15;Acts 7:51;Leviticus 26:41;Romans 2:29, Romans 3, 30, Islamic religious parallels the deceptions of the west. Truth has been hidden in a shroud of darkness.
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9 places in KJV says the heart figuratively is to be circumcised not the penis tip at all. Deuteronomy 30:6, Deuteronomy 10:16 ;Jeremiah 4:4 , Jeremiah 9:26; Colossians 2:11-15;Acts 7:51;Leviticus 26:41;Romans 2:29, Romans 3, 30, Islamic religious parallels the deceptions of the west. Truth has been hidden in a shroud of darkness.
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