They are not about what is but what is not
23 Jul
Upon reaching 95,000 views, the video, Obama - Building a Religion, has officially been censored as inappropriate for minors. Amazing…As Glenn Reynolds always says “THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE RE-ELECTED,” we’d see political videos censored. And they were right!
What actually happened is Obama’s hardcore internet losers (Obamabots) organized a drive to flag the video as inappropriate. This doesn’t seem to be the first time this has happened either (also, see here). Now people have to login to a YouTube account and verify their age just to watch it — a major inconvenience that has crippled the video’s traffic. Before this video was censored it was generating between 500 and 1000 views a day. Since the censoring, it is generating less than 50 per day.
Hey Obamabots — MISSION ACCOMPLISHED you mindless douchebags! How about three cheers for the free exchange of ideas (an exchange free from ideas you don’t like)!
HOORAY! HOORAY! HOORAY!
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I’ve already contacted Google/YouTube myself, but have not received any response. For those properly appalled at this censorship, please try and contact Google/YouTube to complain about this injustice (not that I expect they will respond — but you never know - if enough people complain, perhaps they’ll be spurred to action).
Click here to contact YouTube.
Update:
A better contact link.
Welcome Instapundit readers! Check out the newest video (not yet censored).
Update:
Here it is on Metacafe.
Obama - Building a Religion - Funny bloopers are a click away
47 Responses for "Google has officially censored my Barack Obama video"
Why not put it on LiveLeak or Justin.tv? Screw google. Let them lose traffic.
[...] forces) then taken offline by Google until they can successfully plead their cases. This is just the latest example of speech suppression. Upon reaching 95,000 views, the video, Obama - Building a Religion, has [...]
I wanted to help you by contacting YouTube, but you should have provided a much better link. You are probably getting a tons of hits from Insty many of whom would support you with YT. But the link is not specific enough.
Although the video’s message is 100% appropriate for minors the two separate scenes of cut lines of cocaine are not. They would earn this video an “R” rating if they were vetted by the MPAA
I’d be happy to contact YouTube on your behalf, but I can’t seem to figure out how!
At my work, we have a program called websense which blocks access to “adult material” (which your video is showing up as) so it is impossible for me to watch your video unless I remember to do so when I get home. I think this may be true for lots of other folks too.
[...] Guy makes a video parodying the deification of Obama Barack, and posts it on YouTube. Looks like it hit a little too close to home. After a slew of complaints of hurt feelings by His ministering angels, the video has now been put beyond a registration wall by Google on the grounds that it is, of all things, “inappropriate for minors.” (Rather ironic, isn’t it?) [...]
You can apparently still view it if it’s embedded, though… I posted it on my blog back in March, and it still seems to be functional. http://rhog.blogspot.com/2008/03/building-religion.html
Maybe we should just get Glenn Reynolds to post it on Instapundit.
Just a thought, how about uploading your video to another place like photobuckets and embedding it into your blog? With the instalanche that you are receiving it will receive quite a few more views than expecting people to log into youtube.
[...] Or cybernauts? [...]
Now would be a good time to post it to another video site that has no such restrictions and provide the link in this post- now that you’re receiving traffic from instapundit.
[...] video got censored as inappropriate for children by the YouTube people. It’s not the first time we’ve seen underhanded stuff like that [...]
Here’s a web form that can be used to contact YouTube directly:
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/request.py
[...] Google has officially censored my Barack Obama video What actually happened is Obama’s hardcore internet losers (Obamabots) organized a drive to flag the video as inappropriate. This doesn’t seem to be the first time this has happened either (also, see here). Now people have to login to a YouTube account and verify their age just to watch it — a major inconvenience that has crippled the video’s traffic. Before this video was censored it was generating between 500 and 1000 views a day. Since the censoring, it is generating less than 50 per day. [...]
Obama’s supporters deserve him. It’s just a shame that the rest of us will have to pay their penance with them.
I find it amazing that the same people who cry censorship at the drop of a hat have no problem censoring ideas they don’t like. It’s Fascism at it’s worst.
YouTube knows the users who flagged your video. They should all have their accounts suspended.
It goes further than that! The firewall at my workplace has banned it as “Adult Content” and won’t even let it come up on the screen.
I guess I’ll have to go home to watch it.
My dear, this is just the beginning of a disturbing trend. They will censor anything and anyone who opposes Obama, in any shape, matter or form, until the nation’s mouths are covered in duck tape.
Wonder why they want to bring back the “Fairness Doctrine”? Now you know. Free speech for them , not for us.
They will take our 1st Amendment rights… over our dead bodies.
I loved the video, BTW.
This is a preview of much worse censorship and political suppression to come, if Obama is elected. Obama-fascists are almost as bad as feminazis.
[...] c) A useful tool if you are trying to silence the critics of Barack Obama. [...]
It’s infuriating that these censorship campaigns still work - people have been doing this for years using the same mechanisms on the same sites. Since they’re not going to fix it, why not do it right back?
Include an explanation with your video about why it’s marked ‘inappropriate’ and a list of the culprit’s blogs and youtube videos. I’ll bet that Google will start to care once EVERYBODY’s complaining, and not just conservatives and/or Obama critics (’the enemy’ given the politics of Google’s employees).
P.S. — if you’re contacting YouTube, and if it’s any help, I also blogged about it on my LiveJournal:
http://lblanchard.livejournal.com/385612.html
Brilliant video though. Good luck getting un-semi-censored.
These people are starting to scare me. They don’t tolerate dissent, they treat him like a Messiah, and anyone saying anything they don’t like about him as blasphemy. They act like a cult, a religion, that he probably couldn’t stop or control if he tried.
Here’s YouTube contact info . . . have at it.
YouTube, LLC
901 Cherry Ave.
San Bruno, CA 94066
USA
Phone: +1 650-253-0000
Fax: +1 650-253-0001
Not only they make it difficult: I have just registered to be able to access the video, and they, having rejected my name as suitable, refuse to acknowledge that I have registered. Long live freedom of the press.
Hey, just wanted to let you know I sent google a message questioning why the video had been restricted, and what specific material in the video was “inappropriate for some users.”
Not holding my breath for a reply though.
Keep up the good work.
To the cocaine guy #4 - no, it wouldn’t earn an R. Just as an example, Forrest Gump had several drug use scenes, including cocaine snorting and heroin injection. PG-13.
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/request.py?contact_type=vidcomplaint
I think this is the exact link to get to the form. If you go through their ‘process’ of contacting them, it takes click after click after click to finally find it. I asked why it was flagged. I did read the comments here and someone commented on the cocaine. Perhaps, if they come back and state that this is their valid reason for flagging it, a bit o’ editing would be in order. Maybe just the word cocaine. While not as visually effective, it would take away their contention that they have good reason to flag it. At least it would allow more people to see it again without signing up. That would give you the opportunity to link again to the original and give people willing to go that extra step the choice to watch it.
[...] anti-Obama YouTube video A YouTube video criticizing the Obama messiah complex has been flagged as adult content, making it hard to view and crippling its traffic. (Via Instapundit.) I viewed the video, and [...]
Censorship is a Communist Tactic and is forbidden by the US Constitution.
Google, meaning the Owner and Employees are advertising that their parents were too ignorant to teach them Honesty, Ethics and Integrity.
They have become Communist and if any of them claim to be American they should be tried and convicted.
Obama is the new Jim Jones handing out the Koolade. Unfortunately the young Lefties are too ignorant to know better.
I defy any of them to prove me wrong.
here is another link to the video.
Google has cleaned my anti-Obama blog from it’s search engine. My crime it seems was exposing that Barack Obama’s father — the one who gave Barack Jr. his dreams — was a socialist intellectual.
Search “obama’s father” at Yahoo and my Presto article is a top search result.
Do the same at Google and .. nothing. The whole archive for PrestoPundit has been washed from the data base.
My messages to Google are ignored.
You should post the video for download (with appropriate credits to yourself, of course) and have people post it on YouTube, Vimeo, etc. for you. Saturate the market. The Obamabots can’t flag us all.
I embedded it in my blog, it’s an excellent piece. The Nuremberg-rally Youth-Movement chanting of the Obama-Faithfull is truly the stomach-churning noise of Fascism.
Why on earth do these unquestioning morons think we need a Strongman type Messiah leader?
I actually did post this video over at Metacafe, but it never caught on at all.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1129640/obama_building_a_religion/
179 views in 4 months
Only rated 2.84 out of 5 stars
The cocaine refs are probably the excuse used for the rating.
But you’ve been Instalanched, so you should get plenty of views now!
I thought it was a great video, and I gave it 5 stars.
Do you have any proof that the Obamabots did this? You don’t offer any.
And as number 4 pointed out, the scenes with the cocaine are enough to qualify it for 18+ under Google/YouTube TOS.
Plus its still viewable by anyone old enough to vote.
Censorship is a serious charge, this isn’t what you are claiming it is and you aren’t going to win over many undecideds by crying wolf.
David - here is a video of Amy Winehouse actually using cocaine on stage with over 4 million views and it has not been censored in any way.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YSH6LKHPLyk
My video was clearly targeted by people who are politically motivated, not because of an image of a line of cocaine (which is innocuous as a simple image — DARE officers show this stuff to fifth graders).
Is there any reason - any reason at all - to suppose that Google automatically classifies a pile of white powder or the word “cocaine” on the screen as “unsuitable for minors”? Any other videos that had such images (but weren’t political) that were censored? Anything in Google policy indicating such a thing?
For that matter, any policy of anyone’s that forbids minors from seeing an image of white powder, with no actual drug use? I don’t think so. This frantic insistence that the decision had nothing to do with the video’s political content is silly and desperate-seeming.
I finally broke down and opened a Youtube account just so I could see the video, only to discover that they use a netscrape plug-in that’s not supported by AOL. So it’s a double whammy. I say, anybody who has anything to say should forget about Baracktube and Obamagoogle and go elsewhere.
Brilliant video!!!
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Thanks for following me on Twitter…and for posting this. I just wrote YouTube complaining of the censorship, and blogged the video.
Most brilliant thing I have seen all season.
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