YouTube profiting from the death of others?

Welcome to the world.

Many countries, including the United States (in fact, especially the United States, the world's #1 weapons exporter) make enormous profits from death. War is the #1 business on the planet. You can try to hide that fact from your children for a while, but, sooner or later, they'll be exposed to it. For all you know, they may even become part of the next generation of people to profit from it.

What are war and violence, but the ultimate manifestation of a desire to impose your will on others, whether they want it or not... like you're advocating for other Youtube users, you warmonger.

But, the point is that these violent things exist, not that he clicked! Why do we slow down at accident scenes? We want to view the damage, the "train wreck". We're curious because we can't believe what we're seeing. I likely would have clicked on at least a few of them. I'm just being honest.

I know how it feels to think, no, they couldn't have posted that could they? Click. Then, oh my gosh, they did post it. It's like looking at a train wreck, as the story goes.

But I do occasionally click and clicking perpetuates the problem.

Those videos and photos exist because people are going to view them, no matter what their original motive was. Looking at these things even when we shouldn't indicates that we are part of the problem and not the solution.

My family were refugees from Asia Minor back in the early 1900's. When I was researching the incident (Greek Holocaust) I found some absolutely horrifying footage of the internet and I spent the rest of the night crying after I looked at it, they were terrible.

They could have been my blood relatives - the ones who never made it out.

The thing is, I still looked at the footage. Why did I do that?!

There are some really terrible things out there and terrible people who do them.

Why should we have to be faced with the worst humanity has to offer? The answer is - we can't avoid it. Reminders will be everywhere no matter what.

For example, the Germans won't let their people forget about the Holocaust but they (the German government) controls the scenarios in which people are reminded. It's drilled in their heads in school that it was bad and evil and they are going to do all they can to prevent that from happening again.

So, they have their school aged kids take field trips to Dacchau and Eagle's Nest and other historically terrible places where photos of the soldiers show their smug faces and their happy handshakes, pleased with their work. This is the only way the German people can legally view footage footage of what happened, read the propoganda, look at the Hitler youth yo-yo's and comic books without getting arrested.

It's the simplicity of some of that propoganda - the fact that the Agenda was pushed on the youth, that sickened me the most.

But my point here is that I was there at the Eagle's Nest and at Dacchau looking at all that stuff. I even listened to Hitler's rewritten drinking songs which are, of course, illegal to sing or even think of in Germany unless viewed in a controlled setting.

How is this any different than the curiosity that led trade4861 to click on a few youtube videos?

And for that matter, this is definitely censorship created by the German government. How do we feel about censorship in this particular case?

I am going to say this because I live in the United States and I can have any opinion I want and I express my opinions in any way I see fit (Thank You, First Amendment), I am really glad that censorship exists in cases like this.

I am also not sorry I researched my ancestors, went to Dacchau, or visited the Eagle's Nest no matter how disturbing and violent the images are. I like to understand the worst humanity is capable of so that I can appreciate it when exposed to the best.

In fact, the Eagle's Nest has a nice section that celebrates the various resistance movements so that made the whole thing tolerable.

Tell me about it:rolleyes:
But on the other hand I haven't yet been able to think of an obscure song or group and not found at least one video on youtube of the song or group.

You are not someone I thought would have a problem with research, but, well - here. Fixed that problem for ya;


Yelling about censorship because we need to "save our children" is just plain obtuse. The damage that could be caused by censorship is infinite. You allow censorship of anything because you are worried about your kids and that opens the pathway to have ANYTHING and EVERYTHING censored. What happens if your government goes whacko out of control and are allowed to censor rampant and gross abuse of power?

It's much safer to know what they would hide from you. NEVER ask for censorship because you might just get it and censorship usually leads to tyrannical control. So instead of telling us to give up our freedom to watch or post even things that disgust and sicken the average person - be a parent and discuss things with your kid and take appropriate measures to restrict their activities. Be a parent, in other words.

I can't watch crap like you are describing.....um....so I don't. As far as things poisoning other people - when in human history on planet earth were we able to run away from all things that poison people's minds? Just leave people's rights alone and cowboy up. Whining to be protected does nothing good for anyone in the long run.