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YouTube Accused Of Censorship
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
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
YouTube is censoring Slashdot now, too! Aieyeeee!
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
The best part is that the article explains in detail how the flagging process and review that got it unflagged works, and then goes on to blame the liberals at Google for the users of youtube flagging content.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
Wal-mart is censoring movies and music. CBS, NBC and ABC are censoring TV. ClearChannel is censoring the radio. Barnes and Noble is censoring authors. AT&T is censoring the phone system. Albertsons is censoring food distributors.
Nyah nyah! Boil blood, boil!
Proud neuron in the Slashdot hivemind since 2002.
Slashdot's moderation system is a form of censorship. Opinions that don't follow the anti-Microsoft, anti-American party line are regularly censored. People on Slashdot will complain about free speech zones and then mod down posts that they simply don't agree with. Happens all the time.
Yes, I just watched it.
I don't know about anyone else, but that video is very persuasive. Its intelligent and serious perspective on the issues has made me realise how the current situation with North Korea is actually the fault of the Democrats. I suggest everyone watches it to see the quality of discourse on the Republican side of this debate.
It's also worth pointing out that WorldNetDaily could be described as just wee bit conservative
Yes, like Charles Manson was a wee bit disturbed.
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
I'll save this post as a memento.
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
What these people seem to forget, is that everything changed after 9-11. If we just allow anyone to go willy-nilly criticizing a President regarding his foreign policy then the terrorists have won. Plainly, you either agree with the policies of the United States, past and present 100%, or you support the godless terrorists. God bless the good people of You Tube for standing up and saying NO to constitutional rights for treasonous statements defaming the good work of the executive branch of our glorious government. We are in a WAR, and in a WAR, you just CAN'T criticize your government, because that is UNAMERICAN and hurts the feelings of our brave men and women fighting to defend our motherland. Besides, think of the children! This kind of thing is sure to confuse and corrupt them. I say, if there's any doubt, then censor first and let God sort out the details.
"Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey?"- Peter Gabriel
C'mon... I metamoderate as much as possible, it's the only check of censorship in this place. It's the one thing I applaud this site for. But you're dreaming if you don't think that unpopular opinions aren't moderated ALL THE TIME with the express purpose of censoring unpopular opinions. Also remember that liberal idiots like Kdawson are editors and have unlimited moderation points... and if you don't think the Slashdot editors aren't politically biased then you are blind or just willfully ignorant.
It's called hypocrisy. You whine and cry about "censorship" and then turn around and censor an opinion you don't like with moderation.
Man, that's got to be a good job. Sitting around all day looking at movies that people have marked as porn.
If you filter out content based on profanity, isn't that also censorship?
What is objectionable in one person's opinion is just entertaining in another person's opinion.
Yeah, I generally prefer to filter out content that doesn't contain profanity and nudity.