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Terrorists Used False DMCA Claims To Get Personal Data of Anti-Islamic Youtuber

Posted by samzenpus on from the names-please dept.

An anonymous reader writes German newspaper FAZ reports (google translated version) that, after facing false DMCA claims by "FirstCrist, Copyright" and threatened by YouTube with takedown, a youtuber running the German version of Islam-critic Al Hayat TV had to disclose their identity in order to get the channel back online. Later, the channel staff got a mail containing a death threat by "FirstCrist, Copyright", containing: "thank you for your personal data. [...] take care your house gets police protection!" Employee names are now on Al Qaeda black lists.

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  1. Typical muslims by Chrisq · · Score: 0, Troll

    Use freedoms that they wouldn't give anyone in their countries to carry out their violent threats. Really I wish we could just exclude Muslims from human rights legislation (though I know that this case is about IPO).

    1. Re:Typical muslims by sosume · · Score: 1, Troll

      You could consider this particular religion a race because it's virtually impossible to abandon. Unless you want your head cut off. So in this case, the label racism could apply. .

    2. Re:Typical muslims by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      At what point to we accept that Islam poses problems and threats that no other major religions do?
      Sure there are secular and progressive muslims, but do these really represent the majority of muslims? It's not like there is a muslim state we can point to and say "Look at X, that's a muslim state with basic human rights and freedoms".

      We see this argument all the time. Just because 5% of some selection deviates from the rest of the 95% in some way ( numbers admittedly pulled out of my ass ) apparently means we are supposed to ignore the fact that 95% can be bucketed as such. That's like saying it's wrong to generalize that men are attracted to women, because a minority aren't.

      Can we please be just a little pragmatic about this.

    3. Re:Typical muslims by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      "or that rape is sometimes OK. People really must learn about what american (football) culture ACTUALLY teaches, not what they think it does based on their own, usually christian, world view"