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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.
"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.