Sunday, 11. February 2007

Topic: GOOGLE - on February 11, 2007 at 1:00:00 PM CET

My YouTube accounts have been deleted

Deleted accounts are not quite part of the plan! This is now a censorship issue.

My NickGisburne and Gisburne2000 accounts were deleted because of 'Inappropriate Content', basically a video of material (no added commentary from me) from the Qur'an. I added nothing to that video, I was merely using material from the Muslim Holy Book, and for that I was removed from YouTube, along with all my videos, and everyone's subscriptions to me (over 500).

gisburne.com

This is a link to youtube after searching for "Nick Gisburne" and sorting by date. You will see pages of the video for which he was banned, re-posted by hundreds of supporters! When will those who censor realize that to yell "don't look" is the surest way to attract attention?

youtube.com NickGisburne

Two Ways Not To Handle Free Speech

Two stories in the news offer contrasting approaches by Web companies to questions of free speech. First YouTube: reader skraps notes that the Google property has recently banned the popular atheist commentator Nick Gisburne. Gisburne had been posting videos with logical arguments against Christian beliefs

slashdot.org

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