Google Deletes Alex Jones Channel on YouTube
May 5th, 2009Via: InfoWars:
You Tube has once again proven itself to be a corporate gatekeeper working to destroy free speech and the alternative media after it suspended the popular ‘Alex Jones Channel’ – primarily because Alex Jones showed a print out of a news article during a live show.
The Alex Jones Channel, started by a fan but since embraced as the “official” Alex Jones micro-site on You Tube, has routinely featured in the website’s most popular ranking charts and has collectively attracted millions of views for videos painstakingly catalogued and uploaded over the past two years.
Those videos are now completely gone after You Tube bosses deleted the channel, primarily because the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette complained that Alex Jones had shown a computer print out of one of their articles about the Poplawski cop killer incident last month.
To claim that showing a print out of an article is a violation of copyright is of course completely insane – not a day goes by without TV news anchors showing newspaper stories on live television. Indeed, C-Span’s popular Washington Journal program almost entirely consists of the host showing clippings of newspaper stories every morning.
I’m embarrassed that one of my 2 hometown newspapers are involved in this censorship of free speech.
Two months ago I thought to delete Comcast and Earthlink thinking I might save a few bucks. My mind has been utterly changed – I guess Verizon censors all sites you attempt to visit -and makes it almost impossible to go where you want to go on the web.
You know what? I don’t care how much “money” there is to be “saved” by changing to Verizon, etal. I don’t need no censorship.
And You Tube,(I actually saw the words gmail and google- not reading right)what a freakin bunch of snot nosed stuck up kids. Censorship has no place in the Internet society.
And I don’t even listen or read Alex Jones.
I’ll get a high definition radio.
There’s ways around these powering mongering censorship, spookhead wannabes.
What sites does Verizon censor, and in what jurisdiction?
one commenter on infowars’ article said Google and yourube (i’ll leave that typo in) just tend to ‘play it safe’. in extremis. i believe that. i’ve noticed extra heavy policing there in recent years and it seems to be picking up. nowadays though, ‘playing it safe’ takes on new and weird meaning…
another commenter suggested jones handle his own videos -which he does.
the thing about youtube and other largescale network sites of any sort is one relies on their good favor and survival. i have nearly ten years of posts on livejournal and see it as a double edged thing… (i damn well do not have a myspace account, i’ll add.) too many eggs in someone else’s basket…
i’ve had a blog on blogger (now owned by Google) for 4 years and was always wary of it -did nothing with it, thank god, but one post.
bottom line here? yes, corporate ass will be kissed, always, and alex jones will always have trouble with them, but so will joe shmuck.
i remember a ton of scientology material up on youtube that came crashing down in doubletime after tom cruise complained.
i’ve got a handful of crappy videos up on youtube. terrible stuff made with a digital camera. home videos. i never entertained any inspiration or ambition from youtube. i just liked collecting favorites there. frankly, nothing posted on youtube can be relied on to remain there as far as i’m concerned.