PDS 9.3 The Markiplier Penguinz0 Youtube Controversy, & How To Vote Without Committing a Felony
The Philip DeFranco Show
philip defranco
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sup ya beautiful bastards. Hope you've had a fantastic Thursday. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show, |
| 0:05.3 | buckle up, hit that like button and let's just jump into it. And the first thing we need to talk |
| 0:09.5 | about today is this news, this situation, this outrage around YouTube and their community |
| 0:13.6 | guidelines. So this whole situation effectively kicked into gear Tuesday when Charlie White, better |
| 0:17.2 | known as critical among a ton of other nicknames, took to Twitter to voice his frustration |
| 0:20.6 | about a community guideline strike |
| 0:22.0 | that he received on his YouTube channel. |
| 0:23.4 | The video that prompted the strike appeared |
| 0:24.6 | to be taken down for including violent or graphic content, |
| 0:27.0 | and according to the screenshot that he shared, |
| 0:28.9 | he appealed the decision, but that appeal was rejected. |
| 0:31.0 | Okay, so one of the first questions here |
| 0:32.6 | and in situations like this is, |
| 0:33.9 | what was the content that YouTube had an issue with? Well, his video featured a pretty viral clip from 2014 that you've probably seen before. It's a supposed road rage incident where |
| 0:41.0 | people dressed as cartoon characters like SpongeBob and Mickey Mouse get into a brawl with |
| 0:44.9 | another driver. And if you've seen the video, you probably thought it was funny, harmless, most |
| 0:48.6 | likely staged. So then, that same day, we see critical post a video talking about this whole |
| 0:52.5 | situation, saying that he believed a human moderator was not behind the decision because his YouTube contacts agree |
| 0:57.2 | that it was not worthy of a straight. Though here he notes that those contacts are pretty |
| 1:00.5 | disconnected from YouTube's manual review team, which can only be reached through email. |
| 1:04.0 | Every department I've talked to has no direct means of communication with them, and I'm talking |
| 1:08.6 | heads of these departments have no way of getting |
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