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."

Comments

Re:Christian terrorists?

[morgan_greywolf]

Yeah, right... I wonder if they are going to ban christian terrorist videos - bombing family planning clinics, killing doctors, gruesome abortion footage, etc.

Oh, no, of course not! Those acts are committed in the name of GOD! They wouldn't want to go against the Holy Living GOD!

*ack* *gag* *spit*

Ick. That tasted bad.

Re:Lieberman The US Traitor

[Anonymous Coward]

And this scumbag right here makes it clear why every single American now lives in fear with our precious American civil liberties being eroded day by day.

All because disgusting Israeli Terrorism sympathizers like alexhmit01 are allowed to spread their filth in public forums.

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Re:Lieberman The US Traitor

[shma]

You certainly deserve to be considered a troll for the way you dive in one sided to the Israeli Palestinian conflict (in an article that has nothing to do with it, no less), dismissing all arguments from the 'secular left' (apparently any arguments from someone who doesn't believe in your God are now invalid?). But I'd rather deliver a proper response.

Yes, because Israel, a loyal US Ally/Satellite that has advanced US Agenda in the mideast, and contained its military operations to self defense, should be abandoned because an artificial liberation movement has become the latest leftist craze.

Israel is nothing more than a money sink for your taxes and a rallying point terrorists use to whip up hate for the US. What does billions of dollars a year in aid to Israel buy the US? An Iraqi nuclear strike in 1981 that the US could have accomplished? A useless war with Lebanon that only served to strengthen Hezbollah? You tell me what the big strategic advantage is in buying Israel's allegiance. Why it is worth having every radical Imam linking the US and Israeli policy together. Why it is worth the increased risk to US civilians and soldiers.

Arafat the Egyptian embraced lefty rhetoric and style, so like Castro, became seen as a darling of the left who love dictators if they embrace "revolution."

Yeah, because the right never embraced dictators. Oh and lest you think that's an old practice, Bush just made friends with Muammar al-Gaddafi, at the same time Gaddafi was blackmailing Europe for hundreds of millions of dollars in exchange for the lives of 6 innocent doctors and nurses.

The amount of land in dispute is TRIVIAL, except to Israel that is in physical danger without it. Emotional attachment aside, financial compensation to the displaced Arabs, including purchasing them land in nearby Arab nations, would have been WAY CHEAPER than the current disaster of a policy.

If the US decided it needed your house for its defence, gave you some cash and told you to get out, and go live with your fellow Christians at the closest YMCA, would you consider that an acceptable offer?

So keep spewing hateful ignorance, and be prepared to lose to the silent majority in two months, because you guys are irrational and crazy.

See, this is how I know you are a partisan fool. Every poll taken over the past year shows that the democrats will makes gains in both the Senate and the House. But of course there's a 'silent majority'. There's always just enough people with your exact views, who are coincidentally never heard from, to make you on the side of The People and the rest of us (what a rational person would call the 'vocal majority') crazy extremists.

US Army Recruiting Videos

[billstewart]

I don't know if Homeland Security has recruiting videos on YouTube, but their whole job is to make people afraid, so they certainly should be banned.

Re:Anti Abortion "terrorism" defeated

[corbettw]

The difference is, the last time a Christian bombed an abortion clinic was over a decade ago. The last time a Muslim bombed innocents was, what?, last week?

It's not a question of tactics, it's a question of timeliness. Anti-abortion groups aren't using the tactics you're so upset about anymore. So stop living in the past and get over it.

Re:Lieberman The US Traitor

[Atari400]

and contained its military operations to self defense

Exactly how was the recent invasion of Lebanon an act of self-defense?