Posts Tagged youtube
Youtube down on July 14
Its not very often that youtube goes down, but today is one of those days.
The day started off with me trying to upload a video that was edited last night. My kids were asleep this morning, and nobody in the house was using the internet, so the morning is the best time to upload videos.
The video was uploaded – but there was a message that youtube was in “read mode only”, and that I would not be able to add a title or description until youtube went to write mode. Ok, no big deal.
The video was uploaded, but 2 hours later it was still encoding. So it was deleted and uploaded again.
This time, all of the videos on youtube gave a 502 internal server error.
But as I’am typing this message, youtube has came back online – lets just hope everything is fixed.
Youtube censorship of hunting videos
Since when is hunting considered animal cruelty? Well, it seems that the management of youtube thinks that hunting is just that, animal cruelty. Or, is youtube bowing to political pressure? Over the past few months youtube has started removing hunting videos. The reason - hunting videos depict animal cruelty.
One of my videos that showed how to skin a squirrel was removed from youtube. The squirrel was legally taken according to the laws of the State of Texas (where I live) and was taken in a humane manner. The video was removed on December 20th. On that same day I sent an email back to the people at youtube asking if I could get a reason “why” the video was removed. Four days later and I still do not have an answer.
While doing a few google searches to try and find out why the video was removed, I found a fishing website where a guy posted that youtube had removed one of his hunting videos. According to him, the management of youtube considers hunting animal cruelty. I also found several “animal rights” websites where the members make it a habit of trolling youtube with the sole purpose of reporting hunting videos. On one of these animal rights sites, several people said they report every hunting video they see.