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Digital
YouTube pull MIA video
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 28 April 2010
The video for MIA’s new single, ‘Born Free’, has been taken down by YouTube after they decided that it contravenes its content rules. Users under eighteen years old had previously been blocked from watching it (well, the 47 under-18-year-olds who don’t lie about their age had). The nine minute video, directed by Romain Gavras, shows soldiers carrying guns and executing people with ginger hair.
YouTube said that it does not comment on individual videos, but a spokesperson did say: “On YouTube the rules prohibit content like pornography or gratuitous violence. Our policy is to age-restrict content that has been flagged by the community and identified by our policy enforcement team as content that, while not violating our community guidelines, is not suitable for users under age eighteen”.
MIA’s label, XL, refused to comment.
