To be p'd off by patronising online censorship?

[purpleplatypus2022]

So my teenage nephew is learning about WW2 at school. He is struggling to understand how someone like Hitler could could come to power. I tried explaining but wasn't really getting through so I thought I'd just show him some videos of Hitler speaking at one of those huge rallies to give an idea at how he was able to mesmerise a crowd.

So, on to YouTube I go and.... nothing. A handful of very short videos of AH speaking fairly normally (no subtitles). Nothing that really shows what I mean.

I did some research and it turns out YT has taken it upon itself to delete pretty much all videos of Hitler speaking because... I don't know. My nephew will turn into a card-carrying member of the NF? Documented historical fact offends some people?

So now I'm going to dig out my old World at War DVDs, or worse, trawl the sewers of the internet trying to find whichever far right website probably hosts such videos (well done YT - how many others have now been funnelled in this direction I wonder?)

Really it's just infuriating. I'm just fed up of this endless internet censorship, fed up of being treated like a little child by some woke prats in California. And now they're erasing history they don't like.

AIBU?

I second the BBC three-part Rise of the Nazis, it's excellent and explains everything very clearly.

This thread has actually really got me thinking; it’s unprecedented for us to have as much access as we do now to archive footage (of anything) because even 15 years ago (or less?) you would have to be pretty dedicated to source it or you would see it in a TV programme. Up until recently, there wasn’t an expectation that material broadcast on telly would stick around indefinitely. ‘Erasing’ history is actually very difficult now, much more difficult than it would have been pre-internet. I don’t know what to make of the expectation that now we can, practically speaking, host all the footage that’s even been filmed it should all be available to everyone for ever.

As for musk, it may be better than the current management ?

Thanks for these further suggestions.

I must say, I find it incredibly depressing at the number of people here happy to censor things they don't like, and think most people are too thick to view supposedly 'dangerous' material.

Sad sign of the times.