YouTube's Selective Censorship
"Broadcast yourself," is YouTube's slogan. Just don't criticize Muslim radicals in the process.
In at least two instances (see here and here) the digital-video site has pulled clips that denounced jihadists, apparently after protestations from Muslims claiming that the videos contained "hate."
Meanwhile, I guess YouTube is not particularly disturbed by this stuff:
The wildly popular video-sharing Web site YouTube.com has dozens of videos purporting to show individual American soldiers being killed in Iraq, in what amounts to snuff films, overlaid with music and insurgent slogans. Some of the videos, including ones of American soldiers purportedly being picked off by snipers or being blown up by improvised explosive devices, have been viewed tens of thousands of times each in the past few months. Some are posted in YouTube's "news and blogs" category, but others are listed under "entertainment" and even "comedy."
Is YouTube saying it's wrong to call jihadists murderous thugs, but that it's fine for said thugs to splash their murder-celebrating real-life snuff movies all over the site?
It would seem the company's got some 'splaining to do.
How about testing if this censorship applies to all criticism towards religious fanatics? Simply make a video speech declaring christian fundamentalists to be hypocritical idiots and see if that will get removed as well.
Posted by: Northman | Thursday, October 05, 2006 at 11:22 AM
And what about the recent youtube censorship of Harry Reid's video "encounter" with AP over his real estate profiteering???
Hmmmmmmmmmm
Posted by: Iben Hakenluggi | Thursday, October 12, 2006 at 10:07 PM