A Michael Broad Blog
YES, in practice YouTube allows videos of animal cruelty despite their own policies (as stated by Google online) quite correctly forbidding them. The policy on animal abuse is set out below. The disturbing aspect of this fact is that YouTube allows videos of animal abuse even when the videos are reported by users. It …
This is the video of the original performance of Lithuanian composer, Mindaugas Piečaitis’ composition titled “CATcerto”. He used the YouTube sensation, Nora the Piano Cat’s improvised piano playing to compose the music for a full chamber orchestra. He integrates Nora’s piano playing into his composition cleverly and elegantly. It works well to my surprise. …
How many videos have you seen of cats outside the home on a cold day looking through the kitchen door meowing and/or pawing at the door begging to be let inside when the response from the cat’s owner (who loves her cat desperately) is to prefer to grab the cell phone and video her …
There’s recently been a lawsuit filed by an animal rights group, Lady Freethinker, to try and legally force Google to do more to keep videos of animal abuse off the YouTube website. The lawsuit failed because Alphabet Inc.’s Google is protected by section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a federal law, which shields …
Domestic cats aren’t always super-agile and amazingly athletic. Sometimes they can look a bit clumsy but nonetheless very cute. Here are eight funny, cute and clumsy cat moments. I don’t normally like “funny cat videos” because not infrequently the cat is stressed. It’s not clever to make a funny cat video out of a …
This is a cute little video on TikTok which is now slightly out of date but the ‘Partygate’ scandal rumbles on so it is still relevant. It seems that a cameraman and a television presenter were waiting for government ministers and perhaps the Prime Minister to exit Number 10 Downing Street to ask about …
This man (Ryan?) is immoral. I know that I am being outspoken but it is transparently obvious that I’m correct. He has overfed his black-and-white cat consistently for a long time or adopted an obese cat and failed to put his cat on a diet. It is almost certainly the former. He then describes …
“You don’t know if it’s humans, bots, my cat doing the searches” Above are the words of counsel for Amber Heard, as I understand it, in cross-examining an expert about Google search trends for Johnny Depp. This is the Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard defamation trial which is currently being splashed all over social …
