YouTube has decided to pull down two of our live videos of Cassidy’s arrest for being a topless free woman. They claim Free Keene violated their “Community Guidelines”, despite the fact that I specifically shot those videos with YouTube in mind. I made sure to avoid showing Cassidy’s breasts on purpose, but I made a couple of errors and a couple of “nip slips” occurred. Here’s YouTube’s policy I supposedly violated:
Most nudity is not allowed, particularly if it is in a sexual context. Generally if a video is intended to be sexually provocative, it is less likely to be acceptable for YouTube. There are exceptions for some educational, documentary and scientific content, but only if that is the sole purpose of the video and it is not gratuitously graphic. For example, a documentary on breast cancer would be appropriate, but posting clips out of context from the documentary might not be.
So, a “documentary” about breast cancer is fine, but live news footage with a couple of brief flashes that is obviously not pandering is not acceptable? I emailed YouTube about their decision, and I don’t expect to hear back. Luckily the videos still exist at Free Keene’s channel at Qik.com, where they originally appeared. As the “Free Keene Live” YouTube channel has been restricted, I have decided to remove it from this website. (Our main Free Keene channel is still okay, as we only place edited content there) Looking at the right-hand links panel, you’ll now see a direct link to our Qik channel. It’s a shame YouTube bows to the demands of a few prudes. The videos they banned were over five minutes in length and had little more than a couple of very brief, accidental, blurry flashes of Cassidy’s breasts. Judge for yourself if you think they were “gratuitously graphic”:
