While you all may take this opportunity to spew your various comments about religion and religious zealots and terrorists and cencorship because YouTube pulled an account...it is in fact NOT cencorship! YouTube is owned by a company, and has NO legal obligation to allow your post or anybody elses post to be viewed. If enough people complain about a prduct (in this case the aethiest's video) then the company has a *business obligation* to it's customer base to remove the offending material. By the same manner, a newspaper chooses which letters to the editor to print...and it is usually based upon the known biases of the general readership (liberal / conservative or what have you). The problem is not with YouTube trying to protect their interests - and, my friends, lets BE REAL - Islamic TERRORISTS - not ALL Islamic people, but THE TERRORISTS - tend to want to kill and blow things up when they feel they have been offended.
Recently three individuals who CLAIM to be former terrorists spoke at the University of Michigan against terrorism and about the dangerous of RADICAL Islam. Guess what? ALL of them have death threats against them. It's a fairly common response to attacks on Islam.
FURTHER...all you whiny little people that love all the free services that are offered to you need to move out of mommy and daddy's house and start paying or your own life. All right, all right...not all of you who will disagree with me live at home...but WHO in the world EVER said you have the RIGHT to DEMAND that company x MUST do things for you for free? You demand free health care (of course you will pay for it in higher taxes...duhh) and you demand a world free of conflict (a nice thougth, but just assinine in it's very nature) and you think you should be able to do and say whatever you want and yet when someone speaks out against your thoughts...they have to be silenced. Perhaps you've heard that the Democrats, those bastions of multi-culturalism, want to re-institute the fairness doctrine....why? Because there is too much free speech for them - AND THEY JUST WON??!!?? WTF??
Anyway - BRAVO TO YOUTUBE FOR DOING THE RIGHT THING!! TO H311 with all the whiners...NO CENCORSHIP OCCURED HERE!
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While you all may take this opportunity to spew your various comments about religion and religious zealots and terrorists and cencorship because YouTube pulled an account...it is in fact NOT cencorship! YouTube is owned by a company, and has NO legal obligation to allow your post or anybody elses post to be viewed. If enough people complain about a prduct (in this case the aethiest's video) then the company has a *business obligation* to it's customer base to remove the offending material. By the same manner, a newspaper chooses which letters to the editor to print...and it is usually based upon the known biases of the general readership (liberal / conservative or what have you). The problem is not with YouTube trying to protect their interests - and, my friends, lets BE REAL - Islamic TERRORISTS - not ALL Islamic people, but THE TERRORISTS - tend to want to kill and blow things up when they feel they have been offended. Recently three individuals who CLAIM to be former terrorists spoke at the University of Michigan against terrorism and about the dangerous of RADICAL Islam. Guess what? ALL of them have death threats against them. It's a fairly common response to attacks on Islam. FURTHER...all you whiny little people that love all the free services that are offered to you need to move out of mommy and daddy's house and start paying or your own life. All right, all right...not all of you who will disagree with me live at home...but WHO in the world EVER said you have the RIGHT to DEMAND that company x MUST do things for you for free? You demand free health care (of course you will pay for it in higher taxes...duhh) and you demand a world free of conflict (a nice thougth, but just assinine in it's very nature) and you think you should be able to do and say whatever you want and yet when someone speaks out against your thoughts...they have to be silenced. Perhaps you've heard that the Democrats, those bastions of multi-culturalism, want to re-institute the fairness doctrine....why? Because there is too much free speech for them - AND THEY JUST WON??!!?? WTF?? Anyway - BRAVO TO YOUTUBE FOR DOING THE RIGHT THING!! TO H311 with all the whiners...NO CENCORSHIP OCCURED HERE!