Drone Wars 4.5 - Too Hot for YouTube
T.REX TALK
T.REX ARMS
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The Drone Wars videos that we've been posting on the T.Rex Labs channel are valuable explorations of technology meeting combat, but there are certain things that we cannot show or talk about under Google's content rules. Those conversations will come here, to this podcast. Today we look closer at Ukraine's cheap suicide drones and what they mean in the context of just war theory, and the future of war in general.
The grim and terrible videos of explosive attacks on defenseless footsoldiers might be verboten on Youtube, but they raise a number of questions. Is technology neutral, or are some weapons too dangerous to go unbanned by authorities? Do FPV drones represent a completely novel groundbreaking type of combat, or merely a new look at the old face of war?
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| 0:00.0 | You know, there's some content that we just cannot put on YouTube, and that is what this |
| 0:04.6 | particular podcast episode is for. |
| 0:14.6 | Welcome back to another T-Rex talk episode, and this one we're going to be talking about some |
| 0:19.1 | drone stuff. |
| 0:20.5 | There are now four episodes of the drone wars that have been posted to YouTube, |
| 0:25.6 | both the main T-Rex Arms channel and the T-Rex Labs channel. |
| 0:30.6 | And while we are primarily talking in those different videos about different drone types, about some of the lessons learned from |
| 0:40.3 | Ukraine. The fact is that we haven't shown a ton of Ukraine footage in those videos. And the main |
| 0:47.1 | reason for that is actually YouTube policies, not only policies against showing violent content, |
| 0:53.9 | because it is, you know, it is wartime footage, but also their policies regarding current event footage. |
| 1:02.7 | They have some new policies about how you show and use and exploit current event footage. |
| 1:08.4 | I think that's, that's probably, you know, getting ready to fortify the election. |
| 1:12.9 | It's probably what that policy is for. And so, as a result, we've shown random footage from |
| 1:18.1 | Ukraine. Footage of drones being used, mostly launched and landed. And we've used clips from other |
| 1:24.4 | news shows and other news channels and different outlets because |
| 1:28.4 | YouTube allows them to do stuff and if we repost their content with attribution, |
| 1:35.0 | then YouTube lets us keep it up. But if you've been watching on Telegram or even |
| 1:40.2 | Instagram, you have probably seen a lot of footage that is a bit more grizzly. |
| 1:45.6 | You probably have seen people getting blown to pieces by drones. |
| 1:50.6 | You probably have seen guys sitting on tanks that explode when they're hit by drones. |
| 1:56.2 | You probably have seen footage of people not just doing drone-related stuff, but suffering horrific casualties |
| 2:03.9 | and death, but filmed from drones. Everything about this conflict is pretty drone-centric. |
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