I recently read a book called taboo tunes which looks into the reasons that music gets banned from the radio or does not receive air play on the TV, and I was struck by the similarities between banned songs the guidelines for youtube videos.
The main things that gets a tune banned are as follows. It may ring a bell with folks who get demonitized on youtube.
If it has a beat then it is jungle music
If it promotes drugs or drinking
If it has any sexual content
If it is satanic
If it contains references to death or suicide
If it promotes bad language.
If it encourages violence.
The one valid point he does make is the there seems to be a double standard. There exists a gulf between the pop culture and lets say the classical arts. The play Romeo and Juliet has underage sex, violent killings, and a double suicide, yet nobody has ever suggested that it should be banned. Many of the operas by Verdi or Puccini feature a suicide or two, and Wagner goes in big time for incestious sex and gratuitous killing, but because these are considered to be "high art" then they escape censorship or public scrutiny.
Can it really be true that only popular culture has an evil influence? Makes you wonder about Wagner and the Third Reich
