Youtube removes IOC campaign video
I guess my Chinese friends flagged the “IOC: No Torch in Tibet” video enough times because Youtube took it down after more than 3,000 views saying “content inappropriate.” The same thing happened to the very original TV video footage of the Chinese shooting Tibetans at Nangpa Pass near Mt. Everest after it was viewed over 100,000 times.
A lot of crazy stuff gets posted on Youtube and doesn’t get taken down because Youtube cannot monitor it all and nobody cares enough to complain. But when it comes to pro-Tibet videos there’s an army of people just waiting to “flag” anything and everything they possibly can in the hopes that Youtube will remove it.
Not to worry, we’ll post that video in 100 other places. It’ll be back soon and many more people will see it. That’s the beauty of the internet and free societies - you cannot block people from the truth.
Posted: April 12th, 2008 under News.
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Comment from Sepp
Time: April 12, 2008, 1:51 pm
Hi, please check the source code on your front page (beginning on line 272). It appears someone has injected a whole lot of hidden links to x-rated sites. Some of those links are also visible in your rss feed, at least in the post “IOC Executive members: Blood on their hands?” I suggest you upgrade your Wordpress installation for better security:
http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/04/08/upgrade-or-else
Take care…
Comment from Diane
Time: April 12, 2008, 2:05 pm
Lhadon,
I would be glad to post it on Mr. Wei Jingsheng’s youtube site.
Diane
Comment from Luis
Time: April 12, 2008, 1:26 pm
There seems quite a trend on youtube these days. There are a few rather horrific anti-Tibetan videos which I would like to the darkest types of Nazi propoganda used against the Jews.
These generally attract a lot of positive comments and if you make a comment disagreeing with the video you get a huge number of “thumbs downs”.
It is frankly ridiculous and disturbing that Youtube should take videos on the basis of a high number of flags. That essentially means that the most numerous and most organised groups control youtube.
However you are right that there are plenty more options around that youtube.