(07-02-2024, 06:35 AM)727Sky Wrote: Certain forms of censorship are stupid IMO. They blank out or blur guns, cigarettes, dead people, even low cut dresses in movies around here . What is acceptable in one society is taboo in another.. You have to wonder how long it will be before the accounts are blocked or maybe this is the new reality at Google's Youtube ?
I think YouTube lets the videos slide if they have some legitimate, "non-prurient" merit, even if they also have some draw for, well, prurient reasons. It's the legitimate reasons that allow the videos to slide. Same goes for their "educational" breast-feeding videos, which frequently feature tig ol' bitties sans any kind of covering at all.
Under US law, until fairly recently, the rule of thumb was that the folks had to be "covered" to avoid obscenity charges. "Covered" is a relative thing, though. "See through" coverings are still "coverings" for purposes of law, as is body paint. In Key West, Florida, they have a festival every year where folks can run around all day long buck naked, so long as they have all their bits "covered" with a layer of body paint. it's called "Fantasy Fest", videos of which can also be found on YouTube.
Relatively recently, late 1980's or early 1990's, the SCOTUS made a ruling that even full-on toplessness was permitted for women as well as men, as a form of "free speech" or "free expression". Their reasoning was, I believe, that a society cannot allow men to go shirtless while at the same time prohibiting women from the same, as that is discriminatory... then they threw in the "free speech" justification for good measure.
So, since the women in these "fashion hauls" are, technically, "covered", I let them slide just as YouTube does. Who am I to flaunt US law?
Besides, I ain't skeert of no boobies! I've seen some that probably should have scared the hell outta me, cause I believe they were probably big enough to kill a grown man by asphyxiation, but still, I wasn't scared. Maybe I just wasn't bright enough to be scared
There is also the fact that a lot of these videos on YouTube are just click-bait to entice the viewer to go to the poster's "Only Fans" or similar site to "see the full video", and are really just free advertising for them... "free advertising" that also generates a secondary income for them of it's own. It's a win-win for them.
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