YouTube Reverses Course, Restores Video Critical of Censorship of Gay Marriage Opponents
YouTube has reversed its decision to censor the views of a pro-traditional marriage organization after attention was drawn to its removal of a video last week produced by Christian preacher and hard rock drummer Bradlee Dean.
Last week, YouTube – owned by Google, whose corporate motto used to be “Don't Be Evil” -- removed the video, which spotlights how gay rights extremists are using laws in Canada to censor those who disagree with their perspective.
Shortly after the video was uploaded, malicious users of the site "flagged" it as "hate speech" even though the video discusses policy issues and does not use any derogatory language about gays and does not advocate violence.
The video created May 16 by Dean to accompany his weekly column published by WorldNet Daily and other news outlets, exposes facts about the hatred and oppression directed at conservative Christians and opponents of gay marriage in Canada by the radical Left toward people of faith, those who hold to traditional marriage.
Among the shocking examples presented of how gay-rights extremists are using hate speech laws to silence conservatives is a ruling by a Canadian official that Christian parents who home-school their children can not teach their children that homosexuality is a sin.
Within 2 hours of its posting to the web, it was taken offline by YouTube after it was flagged by a discriminatory individual for “hate speech.” But YouTube can't blame automated spam filters – this time, actual, living, human beings who work for YouTube made the decision.
This is the text of the email YouTube sent to Dean informing him of YouTube's decision to remove the video:
The YouTube Community has flagged one or more of your videos as inappropriate. Once a video is flagged, it is reviewed by the YouTube Team against our Community Guidelines. Upon review, we have determined that the following video(s) contain content in violation of these guidelines, and have been disabled: Homosexual Marriage (WARNING!) Look to Canada – (BdeanSonsofLiberty). For more information on YouTube's Community Guidelines and how they are enforced, please visit the help center.
Nothing in the video violated YouTube's Community Guidelines .
Those guidelines include this statement:
We encourage free speech and defend everyone's right to express unpopular points of view. But we don't permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity).”
Dean's video did not attack or demean gays – it addressed serious policy questions raised by actual events and political decisions in Canada. By taking Dean's video offline, YouTube called into serious question its commitment to “defend everyone's right to express unpopular points of view” isn't all that strong when it comes to defending the right of people who hold traditional values.
The situation was all the more worsened by the fact that Dean's video (which you can now watch on YouTube) was, among other things, denouncing censorship. We're glad Google has reversed course and stood up for political speech. No matter what your opinion on gay marriage or homosexuality in general is, Dean's clip didn't deserve to be removed. His opponents should stick to criticizing his actions rather than trying to censor them.
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Sexual intercourse has two functions in the human life.
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 6:18pm.
PROCREATIONAL, which is for the purpose of continuing the human race.
RECREATIONAL, which furthers the needs of the former, as well as keeping the two sexes talking to each other on more or less friendly terms.
What occurs in anybody else's bedroom, I could care less about.
i used to believe that the homosexual act could never result in a pregnancy without some input from the opposite sex.
Recently however, i have come to accept the possibility that it could, indeed probably has, happened.
It explains ed schultz for brains better than any other theory.
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
Willis....I'm older than you, and when I was attending school,
Submitted by Rush Fan on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 8:22pm.
the teacher had the discretion of applying corporal punishment. I remember receiving a paddling in front of my math class for misbehavior. The paddling was painful, but the embarrassment of it being applied in front of my classmates was even more painful. My Latin teacher, a little women appropriately named "Squeaky Fowler", would regularly circle the room cracking knuckles with a ruler if we failed to pay attention.
I suspect the Left no longer tolerates corporal punishment in the classroom. But looking back, the well-deserved punishment had a positive affect on my behavior and maturity. Of course, I had an advantage over today's students. There were no powerful teachers union to muck up the educational process.
And that woould make you how old exactly?
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:43pm.
Miss Kerns was my first grade teacher. She broke several yardsticks on kids heads. Longer reach I think.
The up front and personal got the 12" wooden ruler across the butt, and on occasion, if the crime warranted it, the ruler across the back of the knickles.
The Holmes sisters taught the 2nd grade classes, so if you went to Greybull gradeschool, you had no choice but to endure some very strict learning environments......
They had unique corporal punishment tricks.
I got a good education at the hands of some very effective Teachers that knew how to drive their students and force them to achieve goals they didn't realize they were reaching for until it was too late and you already learned stuff before you could stop the onslaught on intelligence.
oddly enough, I NEVER had a union teacher.
My teachers knew their subjects and didn't need to pay somebody to save their jobs for them.
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
It seems that we were fortunate to have both lived in an era
Submitted by Rush Fan on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 3:14pm.
when quality teachers not only thrived, but were not cumbered with unions and liberal influence. As to my age, from my calculations I was in the second grade when you were born.
I have grandkids that will argue that nobody is older than I am.
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 3:27pm.
But, they're kids and what do they know about the world of "once was"?
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
Who knows what other "Leftist filters' Google is employing in
Submitted by Rush Fan on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 8:01pm.
their YouTube videos, as well as their Google search algorithm.
As usual
Submitted by c5then on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 8:08pm.
The liberal idea is to censor and inhibit free speech. It is only when they are called on it and the hypocrisy of their actions are exposed that they relent and allow the speech they disagree with to be heard, or in this case, seen.
This is just one of their censorship actions that was caught. How many others go unreported?
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
I just noticed youtubes selective editing 2 days ago
Submitted by Dmray22 on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 9:37pm.
I received an email from a friend talking about a VW Passat getting 78.5 miles per gallon in europe because there is less regulation than over here.
It was on a web site called stumbleupon "not YOU TUBE"
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1LZGTN/video.staged.com/localshops/vw_pass...
I then went to Youtube and did a search for the video.
It was on there allright, but it was MUTED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBnlXGvA1Wk
It's NOT muted now.
Submitted by Rush Fan on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:17pm.
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The Passat youtube is also based on apples and oranges.
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:50pm.
The Imperial gallon is nearly a third larger than the US gallon, so it's easier, and misleading, to use the MPG data. (using the Imp Gal, I can get a little over 27MPG out of my 7.3 ltr Powersmoke Ford F-250)
The smaller (1.4ltr?) sold in Europe is not as powerful as the 1.8 ltr sold in the US. It wasn't popular so it was removed as an option.
Statistics can be used for good or evil. Sometimes you can quote statistics and tell lies without lying.
There is a followup email on that video if you can find it.
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
You will accept gay marriage or else
Submitted by ohio granny on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 10:59am.
You will accept gay marriage or else we will shut you down. That is the mantra of the backers of gay marriage.
Society has gone off the rails with what is now acceptable behavior. At one time this type of behavior was known as perverted. Now we have to accect it a "normal"? I will not.
Baptists Versus Homosexuals
Submitted by berlet98 on Wed, 05/23/2012 - 2:14am.
Baptists Versus Homosexuals
President Barack Hussein Obama’s recent, election year, reversal of his long-standing attitudes on marriage, his “evolution,” has once again raised a religious issue which has resulted in even Baptists weighing in on whether men should be legally entitled to marry men and women marry women.
I’m not an adherent of the 400 year old Baptist faith but over a hundred million other people are worldwide with 33 million residing in the United States of which half are members of the Southern Baptist Convention.
With such formidable numbers, differences of opinion are expected.
However, on one particular issue, homosexuality, Baptists used to be virtually unanimous in agreement. The vast majority unapologetically believed homosexuality is a choice, that gays recruit heterosexuals, that homosexual behavior is intrinsically evil and disordered, and that same-sex marriage is a destructive abomination.
With that admittedly cursory summation of Baptist beliefs on the subject as background, two Southern Baptist leaders recently spoke out with vastly different perspectives.
Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, while supporting biblical injunctions against homosexuality, nevertheless thinks Christians are guilty of “our own form of homophobia.”
On the other hand, Pastor Charles L. Worley of the Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, N.C., thinks homosexuals should be confined within an electrified fence to insure they couldn’t reproduce.
Aside from the apparent inconsistencies in Dr. Mohler’s position that the Bible is right yet being wary of gays is wrong and Pastor Worley’s obviously illegal, drastic measure of sequestering gays in prisons, their radical differences demand clarification. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=24398.)