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YouTube Removal Highlights Media Self-Censorship
jamie writes "On 'Larry King Live' Wednesday night, Bill Maher said many of 'the people who really run the underpinnings of the Republican Party are gay... Ken Mehlman, OK, there's one I think people have talked about. I don't think he's denied it.' When CNN re-aired the interview, the mention of Mehlman was edited out with no indication anything was missing. When a minute-long video of the original vs. censored clips was posted on YouTube, a DMCA takedown removed it (the original poster plans to resubmit a shorter clip he hopes will qualify as fair use — good luck, since the DMCA doesn't recognize fair use). Relatedly, the Washington Post today was caught silently editing its published stories to make them less informative. Unnamed GOP officials are also saying that Mehlman will step down from his post when his term ends in January."
It was obviously "CmdrTaco is gay"
His very existence threatens the sanctity of marriage being restricted a man and a woman.
Because the Democratic Party is the party of gay people. Any gay Republican is the same as an "Uncle Tom" - in other words, a gay person who sells out his own people's interests to help people who are opposed to his lifestyle. It's the same with black Republicans, female Republicans, Muslim Republicans, and pretty much any Republican who's not a male college-educated Caucasian (or a pro-military redneck chickenhawk). It's self-degrading, and one can only imagine what kind of psychological damage someone had to endure to make them debase themselves like this.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
That's like saying, "He didn't sponsor Let's-KILL-all-blacks legislation; he just sponsored non-lynching Jim Crow laws." You truly do fail it, homophobe.
Every last one of them-except me of course. /.
Almost every fucking comment is offtopic.
And the only relation to technology is CNN is viewed on video monitors and YOUTUBE is on the intarweb.
JesusFuckingChrist now everybody's MySpace page is a suitable "tech news" subject for