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YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos

Posted by kdawson on from the how-the-interwebs-work dept.

hhavensteincw writes "YouTube has declined a request from Sen. Joe Lieberman remove videos from terrorist organizations. Lieberman said that the videos made by groups like Al-Qaeda show assassinations, attacks on US soldiers leading to injuries and death, and weapons training, 'incendiary' speeches, and other material intended to 'encourage violence against the West.' YouTube said that while it removed some of the videos highlighted by the Senator, most were allowed to stay because they did not violate YouTube's community guidelines. YouTube went on to note that they are strong supporters of free speech."

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  1. Tarrists! by Bovius · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google is clearly acting in support of terrorism and is therefore itself a terrorist organization. We need to drop some injunction on that.

    1. Re:Tarrists! by chubs730 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd support that if I didn't hate you so much. ~

    2. Re:Tarrists! by rubah · · Score: 2, Funny

      This was recently discussed at a forum I moderate; a user put in a request that we create a new 'sarcasm smiley' when several good alternatives already exist. While some members pointed out we already had a very good sarcastic looking emoticon, others put forward this screencap from the animated zelda cartoon:
      http://alum.hampshire.edu/~bjk02/princess/link1.jpg

      The thread then disentegrated into posting comic book man and nelson from the Simpsons, concluding with the obivous 'guys, just use the fake html/bbcode [/sarcasm]'.

      Besides, tildes are for flirting~~~~

    3. Re:Tarrists! by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

      Brilliant my man! I'm sure this radical new shift in punctuation will catch on like wildfire, and we'll see this in usage manuals within the next couple of years. ~

    4. Re:Tarrists! by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

      Thank you~

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    5. Re:Tarrists! by Culture20 · · Score: 1, Funny

      Only Lord Bafford could be pretentious enough to use a new punctuation mark. ~

    6. Re:Tarrists! by Sancho · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's an awesome idea~

    7. Re:Tarrists! by sneakyimp · · Score: 2, Funny

      Awesome 8===D.~

    8. Re:Tarrists! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You are so right. Corporations have suffered terribly over the last 8 years. They are barely making ends meet these days. And the poor CEOs, goodness knows how they make it paycheck to paycheck.

  2. Re:Hypocritical? by omnichad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you surprised? They're the one group more messed up than the terrorist organizations.

  3. Phew.. by neoform · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least I'm still able to post terrorist videos. I was starting to get worried when I had all my anti-scientology videos removed.

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  4. Re:Good by PLBogen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kudos for calling a Jew a Nazi.

    Not that I disagree. ;-)

  5. Easy. by zx-15 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The US government should patent terrorism and then Liberman could sue YouTube for copyright infringement. Google would take down the videos immediately.

  6. Re:Propoganda or not - Let the truth be viewed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Including (THINK OF THE CHILDREN!) child pornography? Snuf films?

    You sick bastard

  7. Re:Here's another perspective if you care to read by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe we can just settle the war by seeing who gets the most hits on YouTube...although I think an expensive and drawn-out war in the Middle East might be a friendlier competition.

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  8. Re:Hypocritical? by flamingnight · · Score: 2, Funny

    so why doesn't Mr. Leiberman simply assert a copyright claim on each of these videos Because that would out him as the terrorist he really is.
  9. Re:That's the world we live in by Minwee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every time you masturbate God kills a kitten

    But what does God do when I kill a kitten?

  10. Re:Hypocritical? by Cookie3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    someone should just file a copyright claim against the offending terrorist videos.

    i mean, what's al qaeda going to do? file a counterclaim and provide Bin Laden's mailing address? ;p

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  11. Re:That's the world we live in by g_lightyear · · Score: 2, Funny

    Walk around in his garden blowing 'breath of life' into anatomically-correct mud sculptures of men?

    Imagine Mary walking in on *that* little scene.

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  12. Re:Hamas does not get 1st amendment protection by DrLang21 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Picture an America devoid of Harry Potter because some religious nutbag in the government decided that J.K. Rowling was promoting witchcraft. The idea of a world without Harry Potter pleases me to the point where I don't think I would mind if it was censored. Though this is a unique case for me. And yes I realize the slippery slope.
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