I agree with you Michael, it's a total shame McCain and his terrible ads are on a service we love. BOOOOOO. I was upset when I saw the blip.tv player on McCain' website. :(
Yet I totally disagree with your call to ask or expect blip.tv to take the videos down. That would be a kind of censorship that I would NOT want to see. As much as I don't like the videos (or a lot of the videos on blip.tv, or any of the other video hosts for that matter), censorship by any hosting service would be much worse. Also, I'm glad you brought up the issue, Michael. I don't have anything against your "rant". I'll rant too. I don't like McCain's videos at all!!!!!!!!! BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! We get to rant. His campaign gets to post more videos. Blip will leave them up. We can discuss it all here. This is how free speech works. YEAH, FREE SPEECH. Don't censure yourself Michael just because people are disagreeing with you publicly wishing and asking blip.tv to take the videos down. No need to crawl in a corner to lick wounds. Or "change your mind" and "love" McCain now. We get to have an open discussion here. That's good. Plus, come on. Imagine the public relations nightmare that would happen if blip.tv took down McCain's videos and refused to give his campaign hosting service. NIGHTMARE. His campaign would start making ads about how the leftist commie internet elite are out to get Joe Six Pack and Joe the Plumber regular non-computer dudes with all our leftist commie control of teh internets tubes. Then Obama would have to disown the internet peoples and the blip.tv, disavowing all of us. The talk radio would be complaining endlessly about videobloggers and everyone we pal around with, ranting how we are destroying the fabric of society by undermining television and the American way of life. No no. We don't want all that. It doesn't feel good to have to deal with all that. Freedom means freedom for everyone. Even those we disagree with. That's how the Bill of Rights works. And if I want people in the GOP to start remembering that (please!), then lets extend to everyone even the GOP the same freedom. Jen Jen Simmons http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com On Oct 16, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Michael Schaap wrote: > Ok final call. I thought that since Blip is part of the community > this would be the place to > have a discussion. Apparently most of you do not like my rant and > clearly most of you do not > agree. How unfortunate. I will have to live with it the rest of my > life. > > I actually think the McCain ads are top of the bill, real class. > Hope he wins! I'll send flowers to > Blip then, > > ciao > > Michael > > (I really rest my case now) > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
