{"id":4125,"date":"2018-11-07T21:12:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T21:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/red-dead-2-suffragette-clips-deleted-by-youtube\/"},"modified":"2018-11-07T21:12:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T21:12:45","slug":"red-dead-2-suffragette-clips-deleted-by-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/red-dead-2-suffragette-clips-deleted-by-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Dead 2 suffragette clips deleted by YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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YouTube has deleted several videos posted to its platform of a suffragette being beaten and killed in the video game Red Dead Redemption 2.<\/p>\n

The Google-owned firm said the recordings had breached its rules on acceptable content.<\/p>\n

At least one of the clips had attracted more than one million views before it acted.<\/p>\n

Several users had joked about the fact they were able to attack a “feminist” in the linked comments.<\/p>\n

The Western-themed Red Dead Redemption 2 is set at the end of the 19th Century, about two decades before women were given the vote in all US states.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday morning, the BBC asked the firm whether 10 clips breached its policies.<\/p>\n

YouTube has since removed eight of them.<\/p>\n

“YouTube’s Community Guidelines prohibit among other things, gratuitous violence, nudity, dangerous and illegal activities, and hate speech,” said a spokeswoman from YouTube.<\/p>\n

“Creative formats such as video games can be challenging to assess, but when content crosses the line and is flagged to our attention, we take action as necessary.”<\/p>\n

The videos had included the computer-controlled character being beaten, shot at, fed to an alligator and dropped down a mineshaft.<\/p>\n

The firm has allowed a clip titled “hog-tying feminist” to remain in which the suffragette is caught with a lasso, pulled to the ground and has her hands bound, but is not killed.<\/p>\n

The other remaining clip shows the woman being punched unconscious.<\/p>\n

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Red Dead Redemption 2 has attracted very positive reviews, and attained a score of 97 out of 100 on Metacritic, which collates critics’ reviews.<\/a><\/p>\n

Many of the 18-certificate game’s non-playable characters can be attacked, but there has been criticism of a decision to allow the suffragette to be vulnerable given the controversy this could attract.<\/a><\/p>\n

Suffragettes also appear in another part of the game, but attacking them there leads to the failure of the mission.<\/p>\n

The BBC has asked developer Rockstar Games for comment. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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