YouTube removes video 'Blood on Your Hands' -- a video that slammed Biden for failed Afghan withdrawal

Grammy-nominated Five For Fighting singer John Ondrasik said his new music video that shows footage of President Joe Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan has been censored and removed by YouTube.

A search for the song on the video service shows a lyric video and a still image video that plays the tune, called 'Blood on Your Hands,' but does not appear to feature the controversial video Ondrasik posted.

The singer, best known for hits like Superman and 100 Years, announced the removal of the video - which features images of what he calls 'Taliban atrocities' - on his Twitter account.

Ondrasik said he was aware that the video might hit a nerve, saying he placed a 'graphic warning' disclaimer and saying he agreed when YouTube inserted a child content restriction.

'YouTube has taken down the video due to a violation of "Graphic Content Policy,''' Ondrasik wrote.

'To not show said Taliban atrocities in any artistic statement on Afghanistan would be a gross injustice to the victims and enable the Taliban's ongoing persecution of 40 million Afghan citizens,' he added.

'There is a great tradition of artists speaking their minds and calling out their leaders for answers. Many of those have been inspirations to me,' he explained in a press release.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10380487/Youtube-removes-singer-songwriter-John-Ondrasiks-Blood-Hands-video-slammed-Biden.html

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Read Jane Eyre if you dare: University students are given 'trigger warnings' for classic literature

They have been celebrated as classics of English literature for more than 150 years, enjoyed by generations of children as young as eight.

But university students have now been given a 'trigger warning' that Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations both contain passages they might find 'distressing'.

Critics last night described the cautions given to students at Salford University as 'absurd'. Tory MP Andrew Bridgen said it was ridiculous that adults 'have to be protected from the stories that generations of children have been able to cope with without being damaged'.

And actor Simon Callow, who has appeared in several Dickens adaptations, joked: 'I don't think the university authorities have gone far enough.

'A more helpful alert would be: 'Warning – this book may make you think. In extreme cases, it may even make you feel.

Published in 1861, Great Expectations describes orphan Pip's adventures with characters including the fugitive Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham and the beautiful but cruel Estella – and includes vivid imagery of poverty, prison ships and fights to the death.

Meanwhile Jane Eyre, written in 1847, charts the romance between Bronte's titular heroine and the troubled Mr Rochester, but also describes her unhappy childhood as an abandoned orphan.

Mr Bridgen added: 'Victorian readers could cope with tales of workhouses and children being groomed into criminal gangs. But we are in danger of creating a dystopian future far darker than any Victorian novel.'

The warnings accompany a reading list given to students on Salford's BA English literature course, and have been revealed in response to a Freedom of Information request.

Other titles on the list include Christina Rossetti's 1862 fantasy poem Goblin Market, and Robert Browning's 1836 poem Porphyria's Lover, in which a man strangles his partner.

Salford's warnings come despite film and TV adaptations of both Great Expectations and Jane Eyre being aimed at family audiences.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10382323/Read-Jane-Eyre-dare-University-students-given-trigger-warnings-classic-literature.html

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