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Youtube is accused of silencing Anonymous
VIDEO SHARING WEBSITE Youtube has been accused of bringing down a hammer on any videos from the hacktivist group Anonymous, although the Google subsidiary said it was unable to say whether the group has been targeted individually.
Anonymous has recently posted its statements on the Youtube website, choosing it and other means including IRC as means of disseminating its information, but according to Torrentfreak, it might have lost this ability.
"Since the beginning of the year the group has been releasing videos to spread news and details of forthcoming operations. Many, if not all, Anonymous videos have been uploaded to YouTube but since the start of April the Google-owned site has been censoring them", reports the website.
"The last three - Operation Sony - April 4, 2011, Operation Sony Update - April 12, 2011 and Operation Black Out - April 18, 2011 - have all been removed on Terms of Service violations."
"Terms of service violations" means of course whatever Youtube says it means and that's almost Orwellian in scale and scope, so there might be many reasons why the videos have been dropped, and it could just be a coincidence that they happen to concern Anonymous and its pro-open web activist activities.
A spokesman for Google couldn't tell us the reasoning behind the changes and added that it was unlikely that the giant Internet company would explain its thinking behind individual cases.
"YouTube has clear policies that prohibit inappropriate content on the site. Our community understands the rules and polices the site for inappropriate material," was the official Youtube line.
"When users feel content is inappropriate they can flag it and our staff then review it as quickly as possible to see if it violates our Terms of Use. If users repeatedly break these rules we disable their accounts."
Perhaps most controversial of the recent press releases from Anonymous was the latest one, which was called, "A message to New Zealand".
This message, the original of which is no longer available according to Torrentfreak, followed the NZ government's approval of a 'three strikes rule' for dealing with alleged copyright infringers, and it warned, "You have the full attention of Anonymous... Expect us."
Oh, and Youtube must have missed this upload. µ
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As a result, none more on YT pretends there is censorship. Just like, as you know, there was no censorship in Germany 1936 or Russia 1948; proof, none said there was any...
Today we have Google even not really trying to hide it; they say in one line: « unlikely that (Google) would explain its thinking behind individual cases », and in the next line: « YouTube has clear policies ».
So, the policies are so "clear" that, not only people stolen from their accounts and all their personal original work can't understand why, but even Google itself can't.
In 2008-2009 for me (and probably earlier for some others) there was a lot of discussions on YouTube forums, where we (regular citizens) were questioning YouTube arbitrary removal of videos, without notice prior or later, even when the video was entirely the work of the uploader, using nothing else (e.g. sound was created by themselves); while OTOH there were endless discussions with real wrongdoers, that YT never really punished. Even when the person stolen was courageous and persistent enough (which was rare) as writing to the plaintiff (the YT-friend company who had pretended being owner and had asked removal) and receiving a reply apologizing for the error and acknowledging the uploader was probably the true owner, even in such case YT would, as today, refuse to reinstate the stolen video or to apologize or to repair or repay in any way; or most often YT would even not reply at all...
And if you equal them to Nazis (who established their grip using the exact same sort of tricks) you are denigrated (just like Nazis were doing, the only difference being, they had not yet invented the "Godwin law"... ;) ).
Versailles, Thu 21 Apr 2011 18:32:20 +0200
How much fun could these geeks have with GooTube?
A lot I imagine, ah to be a hacker now
"Our community understands the rules and polices"
That's not what I hear, even the retarded fanatical followers of youtube most often don't get why many videos are removed.
And those that do understand know it's very unwholesome and dirty reasons very often and understanding that does not excuse it.
Try to find megaupload files on google and see the differences with bing. (it is still not as much censdored)
who is google working for ?. ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/user/anonyops#p/a/u/0/6mqBwcykvLA
To our subscribers
It has come to our attention that YouTube has decided to censor the acts of anonymous. Because of these injustices performed by YouTube and YouTube staff, we will be switching to a different video hosting website. YouTube has decided to silence the media and censor information. We will not support this action, and because of this, our new videos will be uploaded to another host, along with news and information. We encourage you to join us and switch to our new channel. You can find the new channel in the description.
Hurry, because we do not predict our account will be online much longer.
YouTube,
We are Anonymous
and you have angered the hive.
Expect us.
YOU GOT IT WRONG - IT WAS SCIENTOLOGY THAT SILENCED ANONYMOUS.
CHECK YOUR FACTS, DUMWADS.