What is it that it's called in culture, what story exemplifies this "norm"?
Everyone is looking at the lowest common denominator. Youtube. Youtube is NBC/CBS/ABC internet plus more reality tv then reality tv can put out. Right, it's only one site and it garners the most. Damn, al-queda put's up vids there!!! They may last for an hour or so, but they are there. It's like going out on the Venice Boardwalk in California, it's something we haven't defined yet and won't really have an analogy that functions for us yet, not for several years. And most of us will be dead before it has a name and something to be understood and applied. It's like Vaudville. Damn, I can watch beatbox harmonica or Mexican Mafia infighting videos. You are all correct about this, though you keep your analysis to your own simplified and limited perceptions. Enculturated ones that you don't even know you have. 90 percent of your desires are unconscious. The word "censhorship" doesn't really work here any longer. I new word needs to come forth and define this. I would point out though that "load of BS" doesn't help define what should be an intelligent analyis. Respect all involved and we can figure it out somewhat I suspect. I'm a hypocrite. Google doesn't "start defining how business" is done. It already knows. It's got a model. That model is Western culture and it's business practices. It's nothing new. It's business as usual. On 8/31/07, Jay dedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What a load of BS. " .. speech on the Internet .." is not what is > being > > curtailed, regulated, censored, what-have-you. It is speech on ONE > > particular website. One website that is *not* owned by the people making > > the "speech" in question. > > i think your argument is too simple. > when the company in question is Google/Youtube, their influence starts > becoming more than a sliver of reality. Their practices start defining > how businesses is done, and what cooperation governments expect out of > companies. Self-censorship becomes the norm. > > But I do take your point that this company (Google) can do what it likes. > just makes independent video sites like blip.tv all the more > attractive for users. > > Jay > > -- > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 > > -- Softwired http://nnon.tv/softwired [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
