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For those of you who missed last week’s posting on the subject here are the highlights. The Federal Trade Commission fined YouTube a whole lot of money for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by gathering data on child viewers (recognized by the act as anyone under 13). This is just the latest issue YouTube has had, including some questionable content they had no control over being aimed at kids, and advertisers forcing them to push creators to make their channel family-friendly. Like the copyright issue Google’s response has been rather extreme and a bit of a pain. What’s worse is that they failed to clarify what qualifies as “for kids” with a rather vague policy that had animators, reviewers of kids media and toys, and anyone else who fall under the banners worried they would face demonetization, the inability to connect with their fan base, and potentially even being fined around $42,000, the maximum penalty for violating COPPA. Basically they took their mistakes out on the creators and made everything vague as heck, which is standard for YouTube lately and making creators, especially smaller ones, question not only their future on the platform but the platform itself as it seems to be losing the goal YouTube was founded on prior to Google’s purchase.
The video I planned to post here came from Mathew “MatPat” Patrick of the Game Theorists as he trying to make sense of the FTC’s errors, Google’s errors, and go over the timeline of events leading to this chaos. While I am still posting it the FTC did something none of us expected…they actually clarified what is and isn’t a violation and to what level they plan to enforce the rules, which as you’ll see in MatPat’s video are in need of updating. The second video comes from our pal and toy reviewer Tyler “TJ Omega” James as he goes over what the FTC has said about their approach, some other problems YouTube has given their creators around the same and a few personal notes to his viewers as he tries to calm everyone’s nerves surrounding their future. First off let’s find out how this mess all got started from Game Theory.
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There’s something you won’t find at IKEA.
Iron Man volume 3 #53
Marvel Comics (June, 2002)
“Book Of The Ten Rings”
WRITER: Mike Grell
PENCILER: Ryan Odagawa
INKER: Kerek Fridolfs
COLORIST: Andy Troy
LETTERER: Chris Elipoulos
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Mark Sumerak
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
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Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
Remember, the book is in public domain. Download or read the ebook online legally and for free at Project Gutenberg, Google Books or the Internet Archive among other sites, or check out the audiobook from LibriVox. You can also use a print copy. In either case my copy may not match up with yours chapter-wise. Follow along with the very-long subtitle. For this chapter:
The Actual Part Second
In which ShadowWing Tronix fixes a mistake made by the New York Public School in 1948…I mean…In which shall be told how Robin Hood turned butcher, and how he revenged himself on The Sheriff Of Nottingham. Also of the famous adventures that befell Little John at the Nottingham Archery Match, and how he entered the Sheriff’s service.
For those of you just joining us, the section I thought was part second was actually part third, and the misnumbering follows along. The copy of Howard Pyle’s book I’ve been using is a two volume pocket-sized printing of The Merry Adventures Of Robin Hood and they left a whole three chapters out of it. Had I not been double checking the public domain postings above I would have totally missed that. So now we shall go back in time to make sure the entire book is properly reviewed. Why were these three chapters left out of this printing? Was there not enough space and they felt the stories here weren’t worth worrying about? Is there something objectionable in them that they opted to leave out on purpose? Did someone goof?
It’s not like Robin here is the virtuous soul Hollywood has made him out to be. We first met him killing a drunk man in self-defense and feeling bad about it. The Sheriff may be a jerk (frankly only four people in this book aren’t among the cast) but he has good reason to snag Robin Hood since the man was his nephew, even if Robin should plead self-defense. Yes, most of the religious figures we’ve seen here act more like the Pharisees than Jesus Christ but only one person in this book was karma-driven to be robbed because of his own actions. Robin was even willing to attack a guy and declare him evil just because he had nice clothes and a relaxed attitude despite his men’s objections…and he both knocked Robin on his butt (which seems to be the usual qualification to join the band) and turned out to be his own nephew. Robin is the hero mostly by default. So why did he become a butcher and what does it have to do with the Sheriff? We’ve already seen him become a beggar because he was bored. Well, let’s travel back in time a bit after Will Stutley’s rescue and before Robin recruited head first and find out.
I: Robin Hood Turns Butcher
Note that I am using the Internet Archive version linked to in the intro for this repair job.
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“We should install chairs in the Watchtower media room.”
Justice League Adventures #11
DC Comics (November, 2002)
“The Moment”
WRITER: Dan Slott
PENCILER: Min S. Ku
INKER: Dan Davis
COLORIST: John Kalisz
SEPARATIONS: Heroic Age
LETTERER: Kurt Hathaway
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