YouTube Bans Terrorist Training Videos 391
Virtual_Raider sends in an Australian news story that begins "Terrorist training videos will be banned from appearing on YouTube, under revised new guidelines being implemented by the popular video-sharing site. The Google-owned portal will ban footage that advertises terrorism or extremist causes and supporters of the change hope it will blunt al-Qaeda's strong media online campaign. The move comes after pressure... from Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman... [T]he new YouTube guidelines includes bans on videos that incite others to commit violent acts, videos on how to make bombs, and footage of sniper attacks."
If this means.... (Score:5, Funny)
... no more Rick Roll videos, I am all for it.
I wonder (Score:5, Funny)
how they'll implement the checking. Do you think they'll check each video that's uploaded or do you think it'll be based on a trust system?
e.g.
[ ] This is a terrorist training video.
You'd check the box if you weren't sure. It'll make YouTube's life easier...
Finally, we're winning the battle against terr'r! (Score:5, Funny)
Truly, comrade, this is a day of glorious victory!
We have cleansed al-Qaeda's videos from Youtube and have set their agents fleeing! While some may hide their terroristic videos on liveleak or any of these websites [wikipedia.org], the days of the insurgency and radical Muslim warriors are at an end!
God Bless the USA!
Nope. Routing (Score:5, Funny)
No, they'll just be using their routers. Packets for terrorist training videos, per RFC 3514 [faqs.org], will have their evil bit set.
Re:I wonder (Score:3, Funny)
It could be fun, like playing online minesweeper.
Do a search for terrorist videos and try to identify all of them.
Careful not to tread on a rickroll though.
Use the force... (Score:5, Funny)
They're not going to ban Jedi training videos as well, are they? After all, they're part of the rebellion.
Anarchists weep (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Nope. Routing (Score:5, Funny)
The Evil bit is meant for packets and routers, not for entire files/streams, read the document you linked!
However, I understand your general idea, and expansion of the Evil Bit could be the Evil Byte for IPv6, and be made mandatory in any file system.
8-bits
1 - Evil ( Must be set to 1 if )
2 - Partially Evil ( must be set to 1 if part of a greater evil, even if not evil in itself)
4 - Dangerous ( must be set to 1 if contents has potential to kill, destroy or otherwise cause harm)
8 - Terrorist ( must be set to 1 if Terrorist, wrongful 0 will give sender "Unlawful Combatant"-status)
16- Offensive ( must be set to 1 if an average American Housewife of Evangelical denomination will take offense by the contents)
32- Copyright Infringement( must be set to 1 if the content infringes on intellectual property rights )
64- [reserved for future use]
128 - Humour Bit (must not be set to 1, security is no joke!)
Monkey bars (Score:4, Funny)
They find the terrorist training videos by using a sophisticated algorithm that can recognize any image of monkey bars.
oops (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously, i failed at setting the humour bit correctly, it should of course be zero at all times.
How does this affect Linux? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:And... (Score:3, Funny)
Donnie and Marie Osmond clips.
I find Marie Osmond to be very offensive you insensitive clod!
Too
Many
Teeth...
The Children!! (Score:2, Funny)
Won't someone think of the children!??!
Re:Nope. Routing (Score:2, Funny)
However, in AD 2101 war was beginning...