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4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube
An anonymous reader writes "From the EFF webpage: 'Over a period of twelve hours, between this Thursday night and Friday morning, American Rights Counsel LLC sent out over 4000 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube, all making copyright infringement claims against videos with content critical of the Church of Scientology.'"
Running the risk of getting modded down, here's the COS's viewpoint on the entire matter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
Someone else mark this funny, please!
Unless a post is hilarious, a Funny mod is worth basically -½, since sense of humour varies, and someone else is likely to mark the post -1 Overrated. They might, or might not, depending upon whether the post is funnier on the initial rater's clock, or the modder's.
This is true even is one is the first moderator and others push it up to an equilibrium, since the poster will be short of a point of Karma at any given level of moderation.
Funny should therefore be used ironically. For example, where someone has a hilarious and outrageous political opinion that one would not wish to reward. To act in any other way, one would have to be confident that funny mods would at least insulate against downmods, even if they didn't bring Karma in their own right.
Personally, I agree that funny shouldn't bring Karma unless the post gets to +5, whereupon it is worth a single point. But then, funny mods shouldn't cost any Karma either.
*?!#ing unicode. Well, /. should cope, just as it should understand the <p/> tag. I don't feel like fixing it.
Wikileaks, no DNS
+10 Hilarious! I nearly spit out my breakfast when I read that.
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