YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos

hhavensteincw writes "YouTube has declined a request from Sen. Joe Lieberman remove videos from terrorist organizations. Lieberman said that the videos made by groups like Al-Qaeda show assassinations, attacks on US soldiers leading to injuries and death, and weapons training, 'incendiary' speeches, and other material intended to 'encourage violence against the West.' YouTube said that while it removed some of the videos highlighted by the Senator, most were allowed to stay because they did not violate YouTube's community guidelines. YouTube went on to note that they are strong supporters of free speech."

Tarrists!

[Bovius]

Google is clearly acting in support of terrorism and is therefore itself a terrorist organization. We need to drop some injunction on that.

Re:Hypocritical?

[omnichad]

Are you surprised? They're the one group more messed up than the terrorist organizations.

Phew..

[neoform]

At least I'm still able to post terrorist videos. I was starting to get worried when I had all my anti-scientology videos removed.

Re:Good

[PLBogen]

Kudos for calling a Jew a Nazi.

Not that I disagree. ;-)

Easy.

[zx-15]

The US government should patent terrorism and then Liberman could sue YouTube for copyright infringement. Google would take down the videos immediately.

Re:Propoganda or not - Let the truth be viewed

[Anonymous Coward]

Including (THINK OF THE CHILDREN!) child pornography? Snuf films?

You sick bastard

Re:Here's another perspective if you care to read

[Rude Turnip]

Maybe we can just settle the war by seeing who gets the most hits on YouTube...although I think an expensive and drawn-out war in the Middle East might be a friendlier competition.

Re:Hypocritical?

[flamingnight]

so why doesn't Mr. Leiberman simply assert a copyright claim on each of these videos

Because that would out him as the terrorist he really is.

Re:That's the world we live in

[Minwee]

Every time you masturbate God kills a kitten

But what does God do when I kill a kitten?

Re:Hypocritical?

[Cookie3]

someone should just file a copyright claim against the offending terrorist videos.

i mean, what's al qaeda going to do? file a counterclaim and provide Bin Laden's mailing address? ;p

Re:Tarrists!

[chubs730]

I'd support that if I didn't hate you so much. ~

Re:Tarrists!

[rubah]

This was recently discussed at a forum I moderate; a user put in a request that we create a new 'sarcasm smiley' when several good alternatives already exist. While some members pointed out we already had a very good sarcastic looking emoticon, others put forward this screencap from the animated zelda cartoon:
http://alum.hampshire.edu/~bjk02/princess/link1.jpg [hampshire.edu]

The thread then disentegrated into posting comic book man and nelson from the Simpsons, concluding with the obivous 'guys, just use the fake html/bbcode [/sarcasm]'.

Besides, tildes are for flirting~~~~

Re:Tarrists!

[commodoresloat]

Brilliant my man! I'm sure this radical new shift in punctuation will catch on like wildfire, and we'll see this in usage manuals within the next couple of years. ~

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[geekoid]

Thank you~

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[Culture20]

Only Lord Bafford could be pretentious enough to use a new punctuation mark. ~

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[Sancho]

That's an awesome idea~

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[sneakyimp]

Awesome 8===D.~

Re:Tarrists!

[Anonymous Coward]

You are so right. Corporations have suffered terribly over the last 8 years. They are barely making ends meet these days. And the poor CEOs, goodness knows how they make it paycheck to paycheck.

Re:That's the world we live in

[g_lightyear]

Walk around in his garden blowing 'breath of life' into anatomically-correct mud sculptures of men?

Imagine Mary walking in on *that* little scene.

Re:Hamas does not get 1st amendment protection

[DrLang21]

Picture an America devoid of Harry Potter because some religious nutbag in the government decided that J.K. Rowling was promoting witchcraft.

The idea of a world without Harry Potter pleases me to the point where I don't think I would mind if it was censored. Though this is a unique case for me. And yes I realize the slippery slope.