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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 Celarnor · · Score: 1, Troll

    1. It is a youtube link. Who doesn't go to youtube?

    Me. A lot of other people I know who run Linux. It depends on Flash, and the GNU implementation of Flash is rather broken. I refuse to use the nonfree version, and it doesn't work with anything else, so...

  2. Re:I'm disappointed by FishWithAHammer · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yes, because you lose freedom by using a freely usable (yes, freely,, fuck Stallman, fuck Bush, and fuck anybody else who wants to co-opt the word to means something that it does not mean) plugin that works just fine. OH NO I CANNOT RECOMPILE IT WHATEVER IS THE WORLD COMING TO

    Zealots of all stripes are equally heinous.

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