the YouTube channel Scirocco was suspended after he posted a video of
recorded footage of Red Dead Redemption to where the player killed a suffragette
if you don't know what a suffragette is they were members of a movement where
women fought for their right to vote and instead of just deleting the video
YouTube terminated siroccos channel this is a pretty controversial story right
now because like yeah it's gameplay and Scirocco intended the video to be a joke
but apparently YouTube didn't think that joke was very funny welcome back to
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updates that are actually relevant to you so this video is gonna generate a
lot of responses anything about feminism usually does that I will ask you to
please be respectful and like don't be mean to me because like I'm just a
reporter and I'm just reporting on an important topic because it raises a lot
of questions about YouTube's policy toward gaming and violence and games Red
Dead Redemption 2 is the most anticipated game of the year seven years
in the making as a player you have the choice to speak to Rob hurt or kill
characters that you interact with in the game it's set in the year 1899 in an Old
West type of setting but youtubers are being criticized for recording and
uploading videos of themselves beating abusing and killing suffragettes
characters listen okay a lot of people say that modern-day feminists don't have
the right to complain because women have a lot more rights now than we did forty
years ago and that's like whatever people have a right to their opinion I
guess but I will note that the difference between some modern-day
feminists and suffragettes in 1899 his women back then didn't have the right to
vote and suffragettes were campaigning for that right if it weren't for
suffragettes it's likely women would probably still be considered
second-class citizens for much longer possibly even to this day
so a YouTube channel called Scirocco uploaded a video titled red dead
redemption to beating up annoying feminists it shows the player beating up
and killing a suffragette the video had 1.5 million views of the time this
recording and it generated a lot of response in the comments Scirocco saw
how many views his video got so he made follow-up videos with similar subject
matter and titles like dropping feminists to hell and killing the devil
listen killing women in video games is nothing new violence in video games is a
normal thing but there were a lot of concerning responses in the comments in
these videos that caught YouTube's attention comments like why can't we do
this in real life the media got a hold of the story and you
you thought it was necessary to at first take down the channel YouTube's got a
pretty clear policy when it comes to terminating a channel first they flag a
video for review then you get a Community Guidelines strike then they
have a three-strike policy where if you get three strikes and your channel is
terminated Scirocco got two emails from YouTube the first was to notify him that
he got a strike then he got a second email from YouTube that his account was
suspended for repeated or severe violations of the community guidelines
and Scirocco was no longer allowed to access his account or create another
YouTube account so he basically woke up one day and he could no longer access
his channel YouTube said in a statement to motherboard that YouTube's Community
Guidelines prohibit among other things gratuitous violence nudity dangerous
activities and illegal activities and hate speech creative formats such as
video games can be challenging to assess but when content crosses the line and is
flagged to our attention we take action as necessary according to a tweet made
by Ryan Wyatt the videos were reviewed and were determined that they should be
age restricted not deleted as they were not Community Guidelines violations the
channel will be reinstated all 8,000 videos will be rolled back to his
channel youtubers like keemstar were quick to voice their support of Scirocco
and their distaste toward YouTube's decision to remove his videos in a video
on his Twitter team said that what people do in video games is not
reflective of what you would do in real life which is true it's just a video
game but the thing about this controversy is even though Scirocco
intended his video to be a joke people in the comments of the video took things
way too far the comments section was pretty much a cesspool of really scary
comments from users who are talking about how much they hated feminists and
how they wanted to hurt them according to a manual may berg who is the managing
editor of motherboard this is a complicated problem with detailed
open-world games that prioritize player choice what's not complicated is that
there's a reservoir of video game players who hate women and get off on
this but that being said should a youtuber be responsible for the comments
generated on their video well I'll leave that one up to you at the end of the day
YouTube's private company and they can decide what they think is appropriate
for their platform Rockstar Games company who made Red Dead Redemption 2
has yet to comment publicly on this story anyways guys I a little scared to
read the comments on this video I don't even know if I will to be honest but how
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