Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:45:36 +0530 > From: " Frederick [FN] Noronha * ???????? ???????? " > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Goanet] Google's YouTube censors a video? > To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" > <[email protected]>
> > This evening, it made it to the local TV/cable news in Goa. > > There was this item about college kids (or higher secondary students) > filming a fight in their institution in Margao, and placing it up on > YouTube for all to see. As usual, the media responds to anything > cyber-related with panic. The report seemed to back the view that > something terrible had happened. The school authorities spoke about > the problems created by mobile-phones (cum cameras) being brought into > educational institutions. > > When I googled a bit, I came across this page: > RMS GIRL FIGHT > girls from RMSalgaokar Higher Secondary School(Comba, Margao ... > 2 min 5 sec - > Rated 3.7 out of 5.0 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF6GXKuv_CE > > A visit to the page shows the pink banner which reads, "This video has > been removed due to terms of use violation." > > While such incidents might reflect poorly on students and a particular > institution, is this a matter that calls for deletion of a video, > citing "terms of use"? Google and other big cyber entities have come > in for criticism for their stance over knocking off content which was > believed to offend the authorities in China or wherever. > > Incidentally, there are networks like > [http://www.filmclips.be/delutube.htm] or > [http://www.filmclips.be/delutube.htm] which offer to recover deleted > Youtube videos, in some cases! Not all working though... > > What do you think of it? FN > -- > Same thing happened in Netherlands a few month ago, some circumstances (mobile-phone film on YouTube) same results: 'censorship'. That's fairly easy to achieve: concerned persons send 'concerned' mail to YouTube, where a human being (very quickly, hundreds requests to handle a day) looks at the stuff, and deletes it (or not, or kicks it 'upstairs' for further review). Mind you this happens not only on YouTube, but in many, many other instances, and its getting worse, as lawmakers the world over want to make ISP/ hosts responsible for content, not the individual authors. The ISPs/ Hosting sites don't want to get in trouble - or even merely do some no-revenue acruing work - and are very quick with the 'delete' button. Censorship has now been outsourced - with success!
