YouTube Stands Up To IOC Over Free Tibet Video

Ian Lamont writes "The International Olympic Committee has withdrawn a DCMA takedown notice that targeted a two-minute long YouTube video of a Students for a Free Tibet protest at the Chinese consulate in New York. The video shows protesters gathering outside the building at night and projecting images of the Olympic symbol, 'tank man,' Tibetan riot footage and clips of victims of the Chinese police crackdown in Tibet. After receiving the request, YouTube contacted the IOC and asked if it really planned to pursue a claim. The IOC retracted the notice and the video was reposted within hours. Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society praised YouTube for 'going out of its way to do more than it's required to do under the law to protect free expression.'"

Comments

Who believes the reason?

[saintm]

'going out of its way to do more than it's required to do under the law to protect free expression.'

AKA

'going out of its way to do more than it's required to do under the law to protect their image.'

Guess IOC and China need to learn

[OeLeWaPpErKe]

That you shouldn't threaten lawsuits, especially not lawsuits via the fair US system. Fair lawsuits can't really be used for this at all.

So they should just resort by default to violence, because that works. We all know what happened to "fitna", first on liveleak, but youtube followed soon after. And we all know how much criticism of islam we see online. Keep in mind that this is a religion founded by a paedophile massacrer, that's causing millions of death via organised slaughter, so you can imagine just how necessary criticism is.

So IOC and China : pay attention. "Progressives" or in general "western elites" aren't afraid of the western law system. Therefore, don't use it. Just kill one of them, and they all collectively and immediately shut up.

They're cowards. Utter and complete cowards. So use that, not the court system. Have some Chinese in America send death threats with some sugar in the envelope to the idiots, and they'll soon shut up.

After we free Tibet can we please.........

[Anonymous Coward]

free the US? After the last 8 years China and Russia aren't looking as bad as they used.

Re:After we free Tibet can we please.........

[idamaybrown]

You are free to leave

What the fuck....

[thephydes]

does IOC have to do with Tibet anyway? To my way of thinking there is no and will be no relationship unless the 4012 games is to be held there. Geez IOC get a real life and worry about your brief - to provide olympic games every 4 years. Otherwise shut the fuck up!

Re:What did the IOC plan?

[sm62704]

People who live in glass countries shouldn't throw bricks. In the US you don't have to critize anybody to be arrested and hauled away by the cops.

"This is a big-time dealer for us," Davis said. "This guy is huge, probably the biggest we've pulled down. We hit him on a light day."

Facing a possible 100-year prison sentence, Washington was held on a bond of $1 million.

But what looked like a slam-dunk case didn't play out that way. The two detectives who instigated Washington's arrest -- Paul Carpenter and Jim Graham -- had just come under scrutiny at the time of the dawn raid. Over the following year and a half, as the investigation of the two cops intensified, the case against Washington fell apart. In October 2006, the SPD fired Carpenter and Graham for misconduct; last month, Sangamon County State's Attorney John Schmidt dismissed charges against Washington, citing problems with the sworn affidavit used to obtain the search warrant executed at his home.

Now Schmidt's first assistant, Steve Weinhoeft, won't discuss the alleged crime.

The story goes on to explain that the drugs were most likely planted on Washington by the two dirty detectives.

On the other hand, if you ARE a cop you can be indicted for 49 felonies, plead guilty to two misdemeanors, and go scot free.

It wasn't until his arraignment, the next day, that he discovered the gravity of the charges: one count of obstructing justice, three counts of criminal sexual abuse, seven counts of criminal sexual assault, seven counts of armed violence, 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault, and 21 counts of official misconduct. Lewis' bond was set at $250,000, and he was placed in solitary confinement.

Seventeen of the charges were class X felonies with special penalties, each carrying the possibility of a 60-year prison term to be served consecutively with other terms. Calculating by the grimmest formula, Lewis faced a potential sentence of 1,200 years behind bars.

The charges sprang from complaints made by seven women, all of whom told authorities that Lewis had made sexual advances toward them while wearing his police uniform. One woman said Lewis approached her in a parking lot and showed her a picture of his penis next to a beer bottle. Another woman said he lured her to the police station to take a Breathalyzer test, then dropped his uniform trousers and had sex with her on the bathroom sink. Another said Lewis pulled her over as though making a traffic stop, then reached into her car and grabbed her crotch while forcing his tongue into her mouth.

The details of the charges varied from victim to victim, but the women had one thing in common: They all performed as strippers at a Belgium tavern called the Playpen.

mo3 down

[Anonymous Coward]

then disappeared I 3on't bore yoU by fundamental