YouTube Accused Of Censorship 522
writes "According to WorldNetDaily, Youtube is engaging in censorship. A quote from the article summarizes well:
The popular video-sharing YouTube site, which is being purchased by Google for $1.65 billion, limited access to a political ad that mocks the Clinton administration's policy on North Korea, but contains no profanity, nudity or other factors generally thought objectionable." It's also worth pointing out that WorldNetDaily could be described as just wee bit conservative
Re:bogus (Score:3, Interesting)
If that is the case, then no problem. According to the article the a video is flagged only when a YouTube employee reviews the video - at the request of the community - and decides that it should be flagged. Do you have any references that say the article got it wrong?
Assuming for the moment that YouTube did flag it, rather than the community, the question then comes down to whether this was within policy or whether some YouTube employee acted on his own.
In the end, there are too many unknowns that need to be clarified before anyone condems YouTube.
Re:Subjective "Reporting" (Score:3, Interesting)
YouTube Censorship (Score:2, Interesting)
Like Slashdot could be described as just a wee bit liberal?
Re:YouTube Is Not Censoring Dumb @ss! (Score:5, Interesting)
YouTube - or its viewership - has been blocking videos critical of Islam, terrorism, etc but has hosted Hamas propaganda without comment. One incites violence, the other does not.
So Sick of it (Score:1, Interesting)
The right wing nut jobs who are labeled "conservative" are anything but. They are right wing nut jobs.
The left wing nut jobs who are labeled "liberal" are anything but. They are left wing nut jobs.
Conservative and liberal. Why do you keep using those words; I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
Jesus H Christ on a popsicle stick, I used to come here to get away from that crap. It's like when so called conservatives write in and complain in "Scientific American" about the magazine's "liberal bias", what with presenting the current scientific state of understanding about some issue that has been politicized.
Leave your politics and religion at the door, thank you. You can pick them up on your way out.
WTF happened to the U.S in the last 10 years? Sure, there's backwards moves all the time. But this was a stampede. I mean, I realize that stupidity, instant gratification, rudeness, and amorality has become all the rage but give me a break, a little reflective thought and consider STFU as a valid course of actrion.
Censorship? (Score:3, Interesting)