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White House Ditches YouTube

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the but-i-thought-google-bought-and-paid-for-the-US-already dept.

An anonymous reader writes to tell us that in an apparent response to privacy complaints, the White House has quietly moved off of YouTube as a method for serving the President's weekly video address. Choosing instead to use a Flash-based solution and Akamai's content delivery network, this comes just days after YouTube began to roll out their own new policies regarding privacy of visitors.

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  1. Re:Wise choice by PetriBORG · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe so, but do if you are hoping to get young people - people who wouldn't otherwise notice you - to notice you, then maybe you would post it to some place they go right? I'm wondering why they can't just post them to multiple places - now that seems a more reasonable question to me.

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  2. Re:Wise choice by Chabo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Oh yes, and I'd also like to see a .torrent on the site, but I know that'll never happen.

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  3. Re:Wise choice by LWATCDR · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I tend to agree. The thing is that the government doesn't pay for the broadcast of the press release.
    I would have no problem with the BBC streaming the addresses themselves. Or CBS, NBC, Hulu, PBS, NPR, or any other news service.
    Just for the US me as a tax payer to pay for it. As I said at the start I so don't have a problem with it being on YouTube at all. But this will probably end up costing millions all over a cookie.

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  4. Re:Wise choice by plnix0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If the president would like to speak to the American people, why not choose something not affiliated with any company.

    You mean... like Akamai?