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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."
How many Christians advocate that garbage (lumping abortion photos isn't in the same league with the other two, btw - it's simply putting a picture to how ugly abortion is). I haven't seen anything that shows how to blow up abortion clinics - of course, I haven't looked for it, either.
I hope you aren't trying to lump them in with many of us who are pro-life and condemn those actions - particularly when we're in the extreme vast majority of pro-lifers.
Mod the heck up. Something that the left RARELY realizes is the massive hypocrisy of much of the world outside of Israel and the US when it comes to the Palestinians. The other muslim governments - who could afford to pretty much set up every Palestinian man, woman, and child in relative comfort, rarely aid them worthwhile. Israel isn't the one randomly firing rockets into civilian areas, isn't the one bilking its own people out of millions (as Arafat, one of the biggest con-artists of the muslim world did), and trying to look pathetic and rile its people up.
You yanks know WW2 as this war that happened somewhere else, you had a one or two hundred thousand soldiers total, and generally it mostly happened to somewhere else.
We actually lost over 400,000 in that war :) Over 13 million were in the armed forces fighting. It's true that we didn't have a significant number of civilian deaths, but it wasn't a small fight by any measure.
Still, no one compares to Russia, who lost like 13 or 14% of their total population. Even Germany didn't have that bad of a time of it.
Most of the rest of your post I agree with, but I would point out that you've given the ability to restrict speech to your government. While it doesn't seem to have been abused terribly so far, you've left the door wide open. Today, it's Nazi paraphernalia... tomorrow, well, who gets to decide? Whoever is in charge? Because frankly that's a bit scary - though maybe just to me as an American because extremists often have a lot of pull in our politics (though thankfully not so much this election cycle).
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
"Freedom of Speech" does not mean that you or anybody else is forced to tolerate some asshole mouthing off in your own living room, or even for that matter mouthing off in a public space (which is the only place where the law applies) if in doing so they are breaking other laws (e.g the classic shouting "fire" for no reason in a crowded theatre).
YouTube is a private company and, thankfully, has just as much right to pick and choose what you're allowed to say in it's "home" as you do.
Most of your post is bullshit. You call others opinions "hateful ignorance". Yours have to be (by definition) "loving wisdom".Anyway, I recognize that yours is the most original attempt to rationalize what for everybody else, for the rest of the world, is just to steal a land and to throw out the real inhabitants and owners. If I'm in extreme necessity it is justified that you take your house, that's it?
Citation needed.
Anti-abortionist violence in 2007 and you are trying to argue it is ancient history? When was Sept 11th again?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion-related_violence
and my argument (that seems to be lost of some folks) is that a wacko is a wacko regardless of which extremist organization they belong to.