Google - Youtube Censor Political Speech : Lone Star Times

Google - Youtube Censor Political Speech

by BigJolly · 07/24/2008 8:20 am

Whatever you might think about the Paulbots, the Obamabots are more dangerous to a free society.

Upon reaching 95,000 views, the video, Obama - Building a Religion, has officially been censored as inappropriate for minors. Amazing…As Glenn Reynolds always says “THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE RE-ELECTED,” we’d see political videos censored. And they were right!

What actually happened is Obama’s hardcore internet losers (Obamabots) organized a drive to flag the video as inappropriate. This doesn’t seem to be the first time this has happened either (also, see here). Now people have to login to a YouTube account and verify their age just to watch it — a major inconvenience that has crippled the video’s traffic. Before this video was censored it was generating between 500 and 1000 views a day. Since the censoring, it is generating less than 50 per day.

That is pretty scary - think about it. An organized effort on behalf of a political campaign has effectively stopped the free speech rights of another American citizen in the public arena. If you click the link above, Obama - Building a Religion, you will be forced to sign in or sign up to see the video.

But, like everything on the internet, just keep searching and you’ll find what you want. Here is the video that Google’s Youtube has blocked for ‘adult content’.

Pretty good, isn’t it? Which is why the Obamabots wanted it censored.

(h/t Glenn Reynolds, aka The Instapundit)

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18 Responses to “Google - Youtube Censor Political Speech”

izquierdo on July 24th, 2008 at 8:36 am

Give Glenn Reynolds a T-shirt. Here’s one….

http://www.freedomhq.com/t057.html
Cajun Maverick on July 24th, 2008 at 8:47 am

YouTube has also flagged some stuff from Michelle Malkin. Google is a very liberal-friendly company.
wagonburner on July 24th, 2008 at 8:55 am

Hope! Change!

They’re protecting us for our own good. Nothing to see here, move along.
tedtam on July 24th, 2008 at 9:06 am

I liked the “Lemmings for Obama” sign.
Super Dave on July 24th, 2008 at 9:20 am

That’s pretty neat, but how did you get it uncensored? Can anyone download it? When they find out you have it will they talke away your birthday? ;=)
Robert 1 on July 24th, 2008 at 9:20 am

Is “BO” that bad that the liberal media has to protect him from having the truth get out? By denying access, it only makes people want it more if not for the curiousty of it. Eventually people have got to start wondering why we can’t read all this stuff, it starts smelling of censorship!!!
Maltboys Evil Twin on July 24th, 2008 at 9:45 am

Liberals are all about free speech and tolerance… as long as it’s them doing the speaking and everyone else doing the tolerating.
wagonburner on July 24th, 2008 at 9:50 am

#5 dave
Try these:
http://keepvid.com/
http://zamzar.com/
tedtam on July 24th, 2008 at 9:59 am

I found this story on the Drudge Report. Obama visits the Wailing Wall and encounters one heckler. The libs are all over the comments. Their hatred is frightening. People actually have that much negative emotion waiting to spew forth?

Then, I found this quote to be particularly interesting:

Reverence for whom? For Obama? What? Now freedom of speech is out because Obamassiah has shown up at the wall? I’m from Iran and this ignorant, arrogant, inexperience, racialist wants to talk to murderers of the Iranian people; he totally forgets that there are PEOPLE in Iran…the Iranian people who he ought to address but he’s such an elitist that he thinks that it’s the sociopaths running Iran and pretending to be muslim are the ones he should “dialogue” with…as if better than him haven’t tried for 30 years. [emphasis mine] He deserved getting yelled at. I’m a muslim and I find this man to be the most dangerous man on the planet right now.

Is Obama and his sycophants actually believing their own hype? Do they actually believe that he will be coronated and suddenly all the tyrants will bow down in worship and “work things out”?

Of course they do.

/pukes
tedtam on July 24th, 2008 at 10:15 am

This explains the media love-fest for the inexperienced Marxist.
Shannon on July 24th, 2008 at 10:15 am

There is no admission of weakness so telling as censorship of its critics.
StacyE on July 24th, 2008 at 10:28 am

That’s pretty weak for “inappropriate content.” I’m a little surprised actually that google couldn’t handle that.

They really are building a brand. Sigh. And people are buying into the brand hype without looking at any of the brand attributes. Yuck.
Super Dave on July 24th, 2008 at 10:37 am

Thanks wagonburner, that’s neat!
dcgirl on July 24th, 2008 at 11:25 am

Now what do you think would happen if conservatives started flagging pro-liberal videos - would YouTube censor it? It would be an interesting experiment.
Fink on July 24th, 2008 at 11:27 am

The Google censorship and this

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5904413.html

make me think his supporters will bring back criminal penalties for blasphemy.
FourAlarm on July 24th, 2008 at 11:29 am

I came looking for the dreaded adult content and saw nary a boob at all, other than the one wearing the suit
wagonburner on July 24th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

#15 fink
During the last pres. campaign, somebody was selling bumper stickers that said “A person of tolerance and diversity keyed this car.”
FourAlarm on July 24th, 2008 at 3:52 pm

…Gragg said she (would) get someone to take care of him later

Of course she would. If BO becomes pres we’ll ALL be taken care of. Today, tomorrow, forever. The nation will sleep well when everyone’s cradled in Uncle Sam’s caring arms.