Einmaliger Says:

October 2nd, 2008 at 3:12 am
When YouTube gets a complain about any video, it removes it. I don’t see any political motivation here. Maybe we should request the removal of some christian videos? Could be fun. But then again, we as atheists are fair and support free speech.

That was the first thing that occurred to me–registering complaints about religious propaganda. Maybe it could still be done, under the rationale of seeing just how far such knee-jerk censorship could be taken…Heck, just randomly objecting to any annoying vid would work–not just the religious ones..

And then I could see a popular site springing up: “BannedOnYouTube!”

I agree with most of the man’s reasoning and logic and I definitely don’t see why that was banned from YouTube.

Still, he’s kind of a dick. Anyone else here buy things, not because the want to consume or use them, but rather, because they just want to piss people off?

~David D.G.

Because they never learn. The inevitable result of trying to ban something – book, film, play, pop song, whatever – is that far more people want to get hold of it than would ever have done if it were left alone. Why don’t the censors realise this?…

In fact, when it comes to banning books, religion is the worst reason of the lot. Religion, uncontaminated by power, can be the source of a great deal of private solace, artistic inspiration, and moral wisdom. But when it gets its hands on the levers of political or social authority, it goes rotten very quickly indeed. The rank stench of oppression wafts from every authoritarian church, chapel, temple, mosque, or synagogue – from every place of worship where the priests have the power to meddle in the social and intellectual lives of their flocks, from every presidential palace or prime ministerial office where civil leaders have to pander to religious ones…

My basic objection to religion is not that it isn’t true; I like plenty of things that aren’t true. It’s that religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

We need to stop pandering to Muslims. They’re not special.

And Dear Youtube – give Pat a shrine on your site for him to speak as he wishes.

HA! I just went to youtube and found two other postings of the banned video from some other subscribers.

Go freedom of speech!

Well, do a search for “Saudi Britain” right now and you’ll see that 17 of the 20 videos on the first page ARE the banned video!

See, that’s how to respond! rather than adopting the ‘ban this because it offends me’ approach Beautiful

I’d like to see YouTube explain why they banned his video under the terms of use. That’ll be good for a larf.

Go freedom of speech!