Tuesday, October 10, 2006
YouTube Censors Conservatives
NewsMax - The hugely popular video sharing Web site YouTube has allowed liberals to "censor” a Republican political ad depicting a prominent Democrat, according to the Media Research Center.
The spoof political ad was created by Republican filmmaker David Zucker, producer of "Airplane" and other movies. It depicts former secretary of state Madeline Albright, a Democrat who served in the Clinton administration, acting as a maid, servant and cheerleader for Islamic terrorists and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
Democratic viewers of YouTube used the site's software to "flag" the video as "inappropriate," a designation usually reserved for extremely violent or sexually explicit video clips – even though there is nothing even remotely sexual or violent in the clip.
Internet users who tried to watch it on YouTube – which was recently purchased by Google – were greeted with the message: "This video may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as flagged by YouTube's user community. To view this video, please verify you are 18 or older by logging in or signing up.”
According to the NewsBusters site of the Media Research Center, which seeks to combat liberal bias in the media: "This isn't the first time YouTube's editorial buzzsaw has dismembered conservative and politically incorrect speech. The site has repeatedly pulled videos critical of Islam, and even gone so far as banning popular conservative blogger Michelle Malkin from posting videos.
"No similarly high-profile liberal or anti-Christian censorship has been reported . . .
"Almost certainly what happened with the Zucker ad is that liberal users complained it was ‘offensive’ and managed to get the clip censored automatically.”
NewsMax - The hugely popular video sharing Web site YouTube has allowed liberals to "censor” a Republican political ad depicting a prominent Democrat, according to the Media Research Center.
The spoof political ad was created by Republican filmmaker David Zucker, producer of "Airplane" and other movies. It depicts former secretary of state Madeline Albright, a Democrat who served in the Clinton administration, acting as a maid, servant and cheerleader for Islamic terrorists and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
Democratic viewers of YouTube used the site's software to "flag" the video as "inappropriate," a designation usually reserved for extremely violent or sexually explicit video clips – even though there is nothing even remotely sexual or violent in the clip.
Internet users who tried to watch it on YouTube – which was recently purchased by Google – were greeted with the message: "This video may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as flagged by YouTube's user community. To view this video, please verify you are 18 or older by logging in or signing up.”
According to the NewsBusters site of the Media Research Center, which seeks to combat liberal bias in the media: "This isn't the first time YouTube's editorial buzzsaw has dismembered conservative and politically incorrect speech. The site has repeatedly pulled videos critical of Islam, and even gone so far as banning popular conservative blogger Michelle Malkin from posting videos.
"No similarly high-profile liberal or anti-Christian censorship has been reported . . .
"Almost certainly what happened with the Zucker ad is that liberal users complained it was ‘offensive’ and managed to get the clip censored automatically.”
