2023-04-25 16:40:51
According to the platform, the clip of Elmer Food Beat, viewed nearly 985,000 times, does not respect the regulation “relating to nudity and sexual character.”
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The clip of the song Plastic, It’s Fantastic forbidden to censored by YouTube ? Released in 1990, this title from the Nantes group Elmer Food Beat is part of the album 30 cm. It aimed to promote the use of condoms, in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. The Ministry of Health had even included it in its prevention campaigns.
The song, published on the platform in 2008, now has nearly 985,000 views. But a sequence disturbs the algorithms of the online video giant: in the second minute, we see a man slip his hand into his pants. What constitutes according to YouTube «inappropriate content for some users“. On Monday, the clip was accompanied by a disclaimer emphasizing the character “inappropriate for some users”.
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A judged decisiondistressingby Anne-Claire Galesne, the group’s press officer who was notified by email on Monday morning. “Our future is therefore that of a sanitized, hidden, veiled society, where, in addition to the puritan morality of some, omnipresent and omnipotent algorithms will decide what everyone is entitled to see or not to see.“, she confides to Ocean Press .
On Tuesday, the warning seemed to have disappeared. Contacted, the press officer explains that she is trying to join the platform in vain, and is delighted “to have perhaps bent YouTube”. «Maybe there are still human beings behind YouTube“, she adds.
The rock band will release a new album on May 5, titled The sound of friends. And by chance, two of his titles, I dream at night et love lasts precisely evoke the theme of censorship…
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