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YouTube Bans Terrorist Training Videos
Virtual_Raider sends in an Australian news story that begins "Terrorist training videos will be banned from appearing on YouTube, under revised new guidelines being implemented by the popular video-sharing site. The Google-owned portal will ban footage that advertises terrorism or extremist causes and supporters of the change hope it will blunt al-Qaeda's strong media online campaign. The move comes after pressure... from Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman... [T]he new YouTube guidelines includes bans on videos that incite others to commit violent acts, videos on how to make bombs, and footage of sniper attacks."
... no more Rick Roll videos, I am all for it.
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how they'll implement the checking. Do you think they'll check each video that's uploaded or do you think it'll be based on a trust system?
e.g.
[ ] This is a terrorist training video.
You'd check the box if you weren't sure. It'll make YouTube's life easier...
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Truly, comrade, this is a day of glorious victory!
We have cleansed al-Qaeda's videos from Youtube and have set their agents fleeing! While some may hide their terroristic videos on liveleak or any of these websites, the days of the insurgency and radical Muslim warriors are at an end!
God Bless the USA!
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No, they'll just be using their routers. Packets for terrorist training videos, per RFC 3514, will have their evil bit set.
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They're not going to ban Jedi training videos as well, are they? After all, they're part of the rebellion.
So, this is the end for the Mentos® + Diet Coke® videos then?
The Evil bit is meant for packets and routers, not for entire files/streams, read the document you linked!
However, I understand your general idea, and expansion of the Evil Bit could be the Evil Byte for IPv6, and be made mandatory in any file system.
8-bits
1 - Evil ( Must be set to 1 if )
2 - Partially Evil ( must be set to 1 if part of a greater evil, even if not evil in itself)
4 - Dangerous ( must be set to 1 if contents has potential to kill, destroy or otherwise cause harm)
8 - Terrorist ( must be set to 1 if Terrorist, wrongful 0 will give sender "Unlawful Combatant"-status)
16- Offensive ( must be set to 1 if an average American Housewife of Evangelical denomination will take offense by the contents)
32- Copyright Infringement( must be set to 1 if the content infringes on intellectual property rights )
64- [reserved for future use]
128 - Humour Bit (must not be set to 1, security is no joke!)
Blah blah sig blah blah blah irony blah blah
They find the terrorist training videos by using a sophisticated algorithm that can recognize any image of monkey bars.
Obviously, i failed at setting the humour bit correctly, it should of course be zero at all times.
Blah blah sig blah blah blah irony blah blah
So does this mean Linux how-to videos are now illegal? I KID! I KID! They always were illegal under obscenity laws anyway.
Donnie and Marie Osmond clips.
I find Marie Osmond to be very offensive you insensitive clod!
Too
Many
Teeth...
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But, but-- think of the children!! All the children that will no longer be able to fulfill their lifelong dreams and train themselves to be terrorists!
Won't someone think of the children!??!
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
However, in AD 2101 war was beginning...