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

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Re:YouTube Is Not Censoring Dumb @ss!

[hamburger lady]

actuall, clinton's deal was a 'carrot and stick' approach. then the GOP congress took away the carrot.

Re:YouTube Is Not Censoring

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It's not just that they are dishonest by spinning this video situation, they are also ignoring the countless examples of Republican censorship. For example, several months ago Dean wanted to put up a billboard with no profanity, which essentially just said "We want you to focus on Iraq, Senator X". The DNC had a contract and had already payed for the billboard, but the Republican-owned media company saw the ad and said they didn't like it so they canceled the contract -- despite having put up much more extreme pro-republican billboards.

To me this is far, far worse and it seems to me this company should start with something a little more serious than some spin video getting marked inappropriate by users.

Bullshit. We can bribe NK, or we can bomb them

[Anonymous Coward]

The US really doesn't have any signficant trade with North Korea, so we have no influence short of sending them things. That was Clinton's approach - it's called bribing them, which just gives them even more incentive to misbehave.

The only other thing the US could do to North Korea is direct military attack. We haven't reached that point - yet. And I suspect most folks hope we never do.

Without economic ties, we have no other way to influence them.

Which is why talks direct between only the US and North Korea are a huge mistake - as the results of Clinton's policy prove. If North Korea were to backstab the US again, once again we couldn't do anything about it short of going to war.

So repeat after me - direct talks between only the US and North Korea are a trap.

If you don't think so, why don't you post some things the US could do to influence North Korea that don't amount to giving them something (food, oil, technology) for nothing more than mere promises of future good behavoir. And even if you do pull something out of your ass and come up with something, then you have to come up with a US reply to more North Korean duplicity that doesn't involve more bribery or open warfare.

Because they've lied before, and continuing to try and bribe them just gives them more incentive to keep lying.

Say it again - direct talks between only the US and North Korea are a trap

The only ones with signficant influence over North Korean behavoir are South Korea and China, because those are the only countries with significant economic ties to North Korea. And because Seoul and all its 15 million people and significant portion of the South Korean economy is entirely located less than 50 kilometers or so from North Korea and within easy striking range of the North Korean army, South Korea's population and economy is pretty much held hostage by North Korean threats of military action.

So that leaves China.

And China's been all too happy to allow North Korea to prick away at the US - with lots of help from useful idiots here in the US doing stupid things like calling for direct US-North Korean talks and thus undermining the US and the only process that could actually keep North Korea from going even crazier.

But once North Korea actually got right up to the nuclear threshold, China changed their signals to North Korea significantly. Why? Because a nuclear North Korea means a nuclear Japan that would tie its security even closer the the US.

Which would seriously diminish the ability of the Chinese to dominate eastern Asia.

So North Korea won't behave until China makes them, and China won't do that until Japan makes a serious threat to go nuclear.

And there's not a whole helluva lot the US can do about it, despite the pie-in-the-sky fantasies of Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Madeleine Albright and their supporters.

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