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This link blocks the video with the messages "Sign in to confirm your age" and "This video may be inappropriate for some users.". Why is this current events video blocked when fictional broadcast television programs regularly dramatize people being shot and killed?

>>emcham+(OP)
I watch movies and tv shows where fictional people die all the time, and I don't have a problem with it. But I make it a point not to watch videos of real people or animals dying. The difference (to me) is that I can sleep happily knowing that the actors in the films went home to their families after filming, but the people in real life didn't. It's much more profound to know that a real human lost their life, and I don't want to lessen the gravitas of these situations by watching it as casually as I watch fictional characters die.

>>emcham+(OP)
Now imagine where we live in a world with digital IDs.

"Pull up everyones id that watched the video in the last 24 hours"

>>potsan+M9
They (Google) routinely do that with or without ID laws; they have more than enough PII in the common-case.

>>39796550 ("Google ordered to identify who watched certain YouTube videos" (380 comments))

(That article does say this kind of "dragnet" search warrant is, in theory, precluded by the US Constitution. One can ask a certain 6-year old child in Minnesota who just their mother to masked constitution-men what that constitution means).