Warning: the video linked above contains graphic images.
Watch at your own discretion.
First, some backstory: there’s obviously no market for dog
meat in Vietnam, but there are demands. Thus, dog thieves who steal dogs from local
residents and sell them illegally to butchers in another province can make a
lot of money.
This video depicts a graphic aftermath of a dog heist gone
wrong in Phu Tho, a Vietnamese province, in which two dog thieves are seen
either severely injured, or possibly dead, and stuffed into a dirty cart along
with their bloodhound (this is a dog that the thieves use to sniff out other
dogs within the area). It was an ugly sight. Even more horrifying is the fact
that with just the right Vietnamese keywords, many more videos of this kind,
even more gory and upsetting, will easily pop up in one's search.
Now imagine your younger siblings or nieces, in an
unfortunate turn of events, stumbling upon this video completely by chance.
Imagine the sheer terror they’ll be faced with, and the mental trauma that can
possibly result from said experience. This hypothetical but completely viable
threat raises an important question: how do international media platforms govern
their content in a market outside of their HQ’s country?
Every once in a while, you’ll also encounter grotesque
videos on Facebook in non-English accounts in which a motorist’s leg is
completely severed by a traffic accident, or in which a woman lactates streams
after streams of mucus in front of the camera (no, there will be no link this
time. I do have them but you guys definitely don’t need to see them.) Judging
by how this particular Youtube video has more than 8000 views and has been up
for over 4 years, I’d say Youtube’s foreign management, especially in Vietnam, has
failed the hardest among all.
This failure raises many particularly interesting questions
about Youtube’s management system: Is its HQ in California responsible for
greenlighting or blocking every video submitted to the system? Is the process
completely automatic and computer-run? Or are there branches of management in
each country’s market it has expanded to? If so, how effective is the
communication between said branches and the HQ? If it is indeed a fault with
management, can it potentially be exploited by ill-willed individuals?
Let me know what you guys think. Have you ever encountered a
grotesque video on any media platform you browse? Was it a video in a foreign
language? What steps do you think can be taken to solve this issue?
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