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YouTube Accused Of Censorship

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-joys-of-running-content dept.

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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  1. Re:YouTube Is Not Censoring Dumb @ss! by aonaran · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Mods please mark parent informative, I fear this one is going to get out of control if this comment gets buried

  2. Re:YouTube Is Not Censoring Dumb @ss! by pcaylor · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Not exactly. The way the process is supposed to work is that when a user flags a video as inappropriate, it is reviewed by a YouTube employee before being permanently flagged. So someone from YouTube did flag the video as being inappropriate.

    The only possible (albeit very weak) explanation for an inappropriate tag is that there is a brief seen in the video in which the underwear of "Madeline Albright" can be seen when she splits a seam in her skirt.

    Either that, or someone just screwed up.