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YouTube Yanks Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure
RevWaldo writes "The International Olympic Committee filed a copyright infringement claim yesterday against YouTube for hosting video of a Free Tibet protest at the Chinese Consulate in Manhattan Thursday night. The video depicts demonstrators conducting a candlelight vigil and projecting a protest video onto the consulate building; the projection features recent footage of Tibetan monks being arrested and riffs on the Olympic logo of the five interlocking rings, turning them into handcuffs. YouTube dutifully yanked the video, but it can still be seen on Vimeo. (Be advised; there is some brief footage of bloody, injured monks.)"
...IOC YANKS YOU!
The video depicts demonstrators conducting a candlelight vigil and projecting a protest video onto the consulate building; the projection features recent footage of Tibetan monks being arrested and riffs on the Olympic logo of the five interlocking rings, turning them into handcuffs.
People, please! This is the Olympics. The Olympics--let's not bicker and argue about who's been brutally repressing who for hundreds and hundreds of years!
On a side note, I used to enjoy this band from Minnesota called The Olympic Hopefuls who are now known as The Hopefuls due to some legal business and the fact that the IOC is full of lawyers. And you're surprised a video criticizing the Olympics is taken down on the internet?
My work here is dung.
At first I read it as "YouTube Yanks [as in Americans] Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure". Needless to say, I was really confused until I read the description...
"You mortals are so obtuse." -Q
More like -1, idiot.
Or do you not know anything about Tibetan Buddhism and are just making this up out of your own misguided sense of religious hatred?
Yup, videos of Jihadists killing American Soldiers can stay up. Videos recruiting terrorists can stay up.
Of course videos that are against Jihad MUST be taken down as well.
+1 Insightful
Gotta wonder about the people at You-Tube, they really seem to hate freedom.
+1 Funny? -1 WTF?
I just don't know.
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Picard: there are _four_ rings! ;)
Pardon the nitpick . . . I don't think that word is right. It appeared in a comedy film as a word-geek riff on secret societies and conspiracy theories. The word itself is wrong (which is the joke) because it is a build-up on triumvirate, latin for "three men". Penta, however, is a Greek prefix for 5. I think you are looking for something more like "quintumvirate".
I'll shut up now.
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What do you call your car? An "autokinetikon" or a "suimobil"?
You think that's bad, you haven't talked to Zeus. He's had mount Olympus for years, and the IOC is constantly sending him cease and desist letters.
What do you call your car? An "autokinetikon" or a "suimobil"?
A decepticon.
Jokes on you. That's not a "Car" it's a "Ford"
The two are not even remotely similar.
Ahh brand loyalty, how robotic of you.
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