CALIFORNIA: YouTube has taken down videos of robots doing combat after mistaking them for videos that show “deliberate infliction of animal suffering.”  YouTube has confirmed to Motherboard that it removed the videos in error, that the videos have already been restored, and that YouTube has no policy against videos of robots fighting.

YouTube prohibits videos “where animals are encouraged or coerced to fight by humans,” according to its restricted content policies—which it seems to have applied to videos of bots scraping in a ring.

(Agencies)