February 07, 2010
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YouTube Is Retarded
Yes, YouTube is retarded and has some double standards! A few days ago I uploaded about a 100 physical examination videos to YouTube. Among them were a few breast and genital exam videos. In a couple of days one of the videos was on the list of the most viewed educational videos.
The female breast exam video one of the top 5 educational videos watched yesterday (Jan the 7th 2010)
In less than 24 hours i got a warning:
Then the video was "rejected" (removed all together)
Shortly afterwords the rectal exam videos were removed too.
Here is the explanation provided by YouTube:
"Most nudity is not allowed on YouTube, particularly if it is in a sexual context. Videos that are is intended to be sexually provocative are also generally not acceptable for YouTube. There are exceptions for some educational, documentary and scientific content, but only if that is the sole purpose of the video and it is not sexually gratuitous."
Now lets analyze this:
was the nudity in the video in a sexual context? No.
was the video intended to be sexually provocative? No.
was the video educational? Yes. I even labeled it as so.
was the sole purpose if the video to be sexually gratuitous? No.
So why was the video removed?
Why is there a double standard on YouTube? Why were the EDUCATIONAL female breast, and male rectal exam videos removed in a few days while SEXUALLY PROVOCATIVE and SEXUALLY GRATUITOUS videos like "Brown Sugar" which is specifically labeled as Entertainment and tagged with words like: lesbians-kissing-black-lesbian-kiss-brown-sugar flourish on YouTube with millions of views? By the way the video was added on March 05, 2007 and has more than 2 million views and 2,500 ratings!
Where are the community guidelines when it comes to such videos?
Another thing that irritated me was that I actually found some genital exam videos on YouTube. So why were these specifically arbitrarily removed?
Anyhow, if you guys know of other video sites where I could upload these videos with no community guideline crap, please let me know.
A 100 Videos and A 100,000 Views!
A few days ago I told you about my project to collect as many good quality clinical videos in one place. Well, as of today I have more than a 100 videos on my YouTube channel with more than a 100,000 views. I still have a lot of videos to upload and a lot of editing, organizing, and labeling to do. In the mean while I would appreciate your support by rating the videos and sharing them with your medical friends. I am not sure how long YouTube will tolerate the explicit genital, rectal, and breast examination videos. So you should hurry up and watch or download those. Some of them were rejected once they were up on the site. An other issue is copyrights. Most of the videos have permissions and others dont. So i am not sure what the deal is with those. Ill have to wait and see.
Check out the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=prep4md#g/u
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