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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
Mods please mark parent informative, I fear this one is going to get out of control if this comment gets buried
It was already obvious from the summary that this looks like a typical convservative rant without subtstance. /. is becoming more like digg.
*sigh*
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.
It should be noted that there is a theory on wheather a person that has a lot of wealth votes democrat or republican.
If the wealth accumulation was easy (dot.com, from parents...) the person usually votes democrat, if it was hard (worked from nothing over years to build a business, worked at a job and invested...) then the person votes republican.
Most of the google camp falls into the first group, it is easy at google, yes there was alot of work for some, but it was easy and fun work, so now 95% of all money donated to politics from google employees goes to the democrat party.
And since most people in this camp have never had it hard they think everyone has it easy and cannot comprehend the republican mind, so they need to censor it from their view, thus the situation we have today.
The US was created by hard work, in fact it works so well that a lot of people have it easy you get all these wacky groups that couldn't exist if it were not for the USA making live so easy. People are loosing sight of what the USA is all about, and censoring conservatives because they are conservatives is wrong as censoring progressave democrats', but the progressave democrats are the biggest censors in the USA now and no one has censored them.