02.10.08
YouCensor
Well here’s a turn up for the books and no mistake.
Some bloke called Pat Condell has a YouTube channel where he vents his spleen about religion. His last video has now been censored (IE removed) by YouTube.
So what has happened?
About 140 copies of it are now currently on YouTube after being uploaded by annoyed fans.
I’ve seen one of these copies (4 different links for basically the same video - just in case one or more of them are taken down) and can’t think quite why it deserves to be banned. Yes it’s ranty, yes it’s angry vs what the guy thinks is the “islamification” of Britain. But isn’t that the point? He’s angry. He’s not vengeful or inciting violence. He’s not even really saying anything beyond “this is a stupid idea which will hurt Islamic women”. Hardly a message to be deemed offensive to anyone except sexually repressed, angry, scared, power fuelled men with a god complex. Frankly the guy should be applauded.
As should YouTube if they’d bloody stuck to the rules of free speech rather than cravenly give in to violent bullies.
Oh and I’ve just heard that Pat has had a warning too, from YouTube, saying that if he says anything nasty again he’ll be banned for a while at least. Mind you at least that sort of warning isn’t as bad as some of the ones he gets on his own site - lovely tolerant people the world has eh?
They really don’t have a clue do they?
If you have a YouTube channel, feel free to upload it again.
Keep free speech as one of the rules of civilisation, or at least try and slow down our descent into banning such montrosities as being able to say what you think.
Have fun.