Youtube has decided historic non-violent protest footage “may not be appropriate” for high school students.

Historic images displayed over excerpts of MLK’s last sermon, delivered 4 days before his assassination.

My recently age-restricted “Myth of Time” youtube video intercuts historic images from the 1960’s civil rights movement with eerily similar modern images — primarily of the non-violent protest against Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016. At both historic peaceful protests, police used firehoses, clubs, and attack dogs against non-violent protesters.

The civil rights movement footage is from the Academy Award nominated documentary “King: A Filmed Record” (1970) and does not appear to be age-restricted anywhere else on Youtube.

Likewise, at this time, no videos of police face-offs with Dakota Access Pipeline protesters have been age-restricted either. Yet the “Myth of Time” video remains inexplicably singled out for age-restriction.

Such an age-restriction effectively (1) bans high school age students from viewing relevant historic and current events, (2) prevents anyone without a youtube account from viewing, (3) and in some instances, does not allow the video to be shared.

Even if one does not believe such important history should be viewable to the general public, the fact that that the restrictions are being enforced unfairly should still be of concern.

In the same month, an educational Bernie Sanders documentary was unfairly censored for using images of war from MSNBC and CNN; even though, the same images are not age-restricted in videos on the Youtube channels of MSNBC and CNN.

The share button on the Sanders’ video has also been removed.

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