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YouTube has once more deleted a channel that produced satirical spoof videos featuring ruling Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, sparking further concerns over whether the Chinese government is exploiting the social media giant’s copyright rules. The @Voice_of_Chonglang channel, which frequently used the #InsultTheBun hashtag referencing Xi's fondness for steamed baozi buns, was deleted from the global video-sharing platform on Oct. 5. "The consequences of cyberbullying against Xi Jinping," the channel's X account commented ironically on the move, which comes after YouTube deleted a similar channel titled @RutersXiaoFanQi in February. The woman behind @Voice_of_Chonglang said she had received no warning of the ban, just an email informing her that the channel had seriously or repeatedly violated its cyberbullying policy. YouTube bans content that "targets someone with prolonged insults or slurs based on their physical traits or protected group status, like age, disability, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or race," according to its help page. However, the rules make an exception for "debates related to high-profile officials or leaders" and insults made as part of "scripted satire" and "diss tracks." The channel producer said she had complained to YouTube by email, but that her email was bounced back after five minutes. She

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LONDON: UNESCO has announced a new virtual museum that will showcase stolen cultural artifacts from around the world. The initiative, which is supported by Saudi Arabia, aims to raise awareness of illegal trafficking of cultural property and help recover stolen objects. “Behind every stolen work or fragment lies a piece of history, identity, and humanity that has been wrenched from its custodians, rendered inaccessible to research, and now risks falling into oblivion,” said UNESCO’s Director General Audrey Azoulay at a meeting of national representatives in Paris. “Our objective with this is to place these works back in the spotlight, and to restore the right of societies to access their heritage, experience it, and recognize themselves in it.” The virtual exhibition, which is being developed in collaboration with Interpol and other technical partners and local communities, will use Interpol’s database of more than 52,000 stolen artifacts from around the world. Those visiting will be able to navigate a series of virtual spaces containing detailed 3D images of the items, each accompanied by materials explaining their unique cultural significance, including stories and testimonies from local communities. Ernesto Ottone, UNESCO’s assistant director general for culture, said that the museum will tell the stories

By Jennifer Zhan, a Vulture news blogger covering TV, movies and music Photo: Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Were you one of the many people who received the gut-wrenching waitlist email from Ticketmaster for Olivia Rodrigo’s upcoming world tour? There’s still a way for you to watch her perform songs from Guts … as long as you’re okay with it being from the comfort of your own home. On Sunday, American Express made the surprise announcement that Rodrigo will perform a concert (exclusively for AmEX cardholders) on October 9 at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. Billboard initially reported that Rodrigo would play every song from her sophomore album, but that turned out to be too good to be true — AmEx later confirmed to Vulture that Rodrigo will only be performing part of Guts, not the entire tracklist. Either way, tickets for An Evening with Olivia Rodrigo have already sold out (which isn’t shocking, given that the venue has 1,600 seats). But fans who didn’t get tickets will be able to stream the concert online. As Rodrigo explained in a press release, “Livies around the world can get a sneak preview of what’s to

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YouTube is apparently looking to crack down on ad blockers. Credit: Photo illustration by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images Some YouTube users are starting to see a prompt warning them that ad blockers are not allowed on the platform. That could prove a major roadblock for folks worldwide. As reported by The Verge this week, this is the latest step in a building crusade from the platform against ad blockers.Jay Peters of The Verge wrote that they were getting a prompt from YouTube saying that it looked like they were using an ad blocker — and that YouTube required a person to have ads or upgrade to Premium to use the platform. YouTube said, however, that this was part of a test that began over the summer to prohibit the use of ad blockers on the platform. Wrote Peters in The Verge:I’m starting to see YouTube’s ad blocker prompt — are you?I asked if Google was starting to show the prompt to more people, but spokesperson Christopher Lawton pointed back to a statement from June defining the prompt as a “small experiment globally.”A quick online search shows that Peters is not alone in seeing the ad blocker prompt. People are