Back in December of 2018 I uploaded a video to YouTube called “Art, Porn and Puritanism”. It was on the subject of increasing restriction by moralistic and puritanical tech companies and platforms, and what I considered the infantilisation of the internet public. We had just witnessed the creepy CEO of Apple talk publicly about “sin” on the internet, and the need to take a proactive stance on this.

Note, not crime, but sin.

This initially got hit by YouTube for being an adult video, despite there being only opinion and critique, plus mention of artistic blogs marked as adult, and how censorship inevitably would drive artists dealing with the erotic towards porn platforms as the only ones that would host them. Maybe it was the cover picture:

It would have been pathetic of them, but I changed that to a picture of DH Lawrence.

The video (again, it was opinion and critique, no interesting visuals!) became not only unembeddable, but also was blocked from being connected to from outside of YouTube.

I rest my case.

Here is the audio, once more, just for the record, from 2018: