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Gunner Palace
2004 · Film · documentary · 85 min
Directed by Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker
American soldiers of the 2/3 Field Artillery, a group known as the "Gunners," tell of their experiences in Baghdad during the Iraq War. Holed up in a bombed out pleasure palace built by Sadaam Hussein, the soldiers endured hostile situations some four months after President George W. Bush declared the end of major combat operations in the country.
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Record for PG-13 movies is apparently Gunner Palace with 42 uses of "fuck".
But more to the point, Youtube is not the MPAA. The documentary seems to comply to Youtube's publicly given rules more so than a huge number of other unrestricted videos, which makes the restriction unexpected.
I agree that the main problem is the fact that this rule is uncommunicated. As the creator of the video in the article said, they'd be fine with adjusting if they could. Instead, they complied with the publicly given rules and in return had a huge project arbitrarily suppressed.
> any commercial product that contains swearing has nearly always been Rated M For Mature, which is a more verbose way to say 18+ only. Rated T for Teenagers and Rated E for Everyone straight up do not have swearing, period.
Even in traditional media you can often get away with some swearing - especially with documentaries. Record for PG-13 movies is apparently Gunner Palace with 42 uses of "fuck".