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I expected a lot of silliness and inconsequential questions, but President Obama’s YouTube interview actually covers some substantive issues in interesting ways. [Video]
Some small good news this morning: the James Randi Foundation account has been restored on YouTube. Phil Plait explains that the problem was apparently related to a copyright complaint about video footage: The JREF YouTube Account is back online! However, some videos that should be deleted, not due to copyright ...
You have got to be kidding me. YouTube has suspended the account of the James Randi Foundation, one of the foremost rationalist organizations in the United States? This is an outrage. YouTube — where you can easily find disgusting, violent jihadi videos, and vile antisemitic garbage like this — is ...
Terrorist propaganda at YouTube: an interview in Arabic with a member of “Al Qassam” in Gaza, a masked goon who poses holding an RPG with children standing around. This video may disappear. Embedding was turned off shortly after it was posted in our comments. A Gazan Brother. Here’s the page ...
Here’s a mind-numbingly schtoopid new trick from a Hamas supporter at YouTube, who created a channel in which he’s posting anti-Israel (and antisemitic) videos with the same titles and descriptions as the IDF’s official YouTube videos, under the charming name terroristisrail.
The IDF has opened a channel on YouTube to post videos showing why they’re fighting Hamas; one of the most-viewed videos showed Hamas terrorists loading rockets into a truck in a residential neighborhood. And of course, Hamas supporters are using YouTube’s “flagging” features to get these videos removed: What YouTube ...
YouTube videos may now be embedded in comments again. The procedure is the same: 1) Browse to a YouTube video. 2) Copy/paste the web address of the video (shown at the top of your browser window - not the YouTube embed link!) into the comment. 3) The address will be ...
Yes, the unthinkable has come to pass, on this Christmas day — you can now embed a YouTube video in a comment, assuming you’re registered and in good standing. How to do it: 1) Browse to a YouTube video. 2) Copy/paste the web address of the video (shown at the ...
The struggle over YouTube’s slice of the internet pie is getting mean: Warner Music pulls videos from YouTube. NEW YORK (Reuters) – Warner Music Group ordered YouTube on Saturday to remove all music videos by its artists from the popular online video-sharing site after contract negotiations broke down. The ...
We’ve received several emails today about a PC antivirus program complaining about a virus called “Actns/Swif.T” when LGF was loaded. This warning message seems to be related to the embedded YouTube videos, and CrunchGear says it’s a false positive. UPDATE: Spoke with Google/YouTube and apparently anti-spyware software from Computer ...
YouTube has deleted Pat Condell’s latest video, for “terms of use violation.” Which apparently means, “criticism of Saudi Arabia.” So here it is again. [Video]
Pat Condell, Islam, Britain, Sharia, Shari'a, Dhimmitude, Multiculturalism, Youtube
Joe Lieberman has apparently gotten some results in his attempt to persuade YouTube to do the right thing: YouTube Yanks Radical Islamist Videos After Lieberman’s Complaint. YouTube has heeded the call to stop featuring radical Islamists’ video clips. “Google’s community guidelines for YouTube will now bar videos that incite ...
LGF, Youtube, Jihad Video, Hate Speech, Militant Islam, Al Qaeda, Video, Propaganda
I’ve gotten emails from several people seeing notices from Firefox or Safari that there are “errors opening the page.” It’s because of the embedded YouTube videos. YouTube’s code has suddenly started trying to read a file named ‘crossdomain.xml’ from ‘localhost’, and the browser prevents it and throws an error as ...
Jihad videos? Yep, YouTube’s got ’em. Crackpot 9/11 Troofers? Yep, YouTube’s got ’em. Lots of ’em. Holocaust deniers? YouTube - RevisionistsRus’s Videos.
The Viacom entertainment conglomerate has won a ruling that will force YouTube (owned by Google) to disclose details about every person who has ever watched a video at the site: Google must divulge YouTube log. The ruling comes as part of Google’s legal battle with Viacom over allegations of ...
Suddenly this morning, the YouTube videos embedded in our pages (there were 2 on the front page) started causing page loading errors; the server ‘i.ytimg.com’ (a YouTube address that normally serves thumbnail images for the videos) was trying to read a file from localhost, via port 8881. The exact URL ...
LGF, Youtube, Internet, Security, i.ytimg.com, crossdomain.xml
There is something really rotten at YouTube; they pull any videos critical of Islam (often within minutes), but apparently see nothing wrong with snuff films showing the murder of US troops: YouTube - Iraqi sniper target a US marine in Baghdad. UPDATE at 6/2/08 8:25:10 am: The video has now ...
Senator Joe Lieberman sent a letter to Google/YouTube asking them to remove the video content that’s been posted at YouTube by terrorist groups and their supporters, and Google told Lieberman to take a hike. It’s no joke; this kind of highly disturbing radical Islamic content is easy to find all ...
At YouTube they remove anti-jihad videos at the merest whiff of protest from Muslims. But they have no qualms about hosting a channel for Harkat Ul Mujahideen, a group that is listed by the State Department as a foreign terrorist organization, with dozens of snuff films and jihad videos: YouTube ...
Israel has announced that they will embargo the jihad-supporting Al Jazeera television: Israel to boycott Al-Jazeera TV, claiming incitement to terror. Israel has decided officially to boycott the Qatari-based al-Jazeera news station, because of what it perceives as biased coverage, a government official said Wednesday. “The Foreign Ministry has ...
Pakistan decided to block access to YouTube from Pakistani IP addresses, to protect the ummah from exposure to Dutch MP Geert Wilders’ heinous film of blasphemy, criticizing the Koran. But they ended up blocking access to YouTube for a large part of the world. Oops. Pakistan, YouTube & The Dutch ...
An Islamic death threat to Dutch politician Geert Wilders. It’s also now at YouTube.
Yet another terrorist posting videos to YouTube, right out in the open, not hiding anything at all: KalashinkoveIRAQ.
Jawa Report has the back story on another antisemitic freakazoid at YouTube: Ironic Perfection on YouTube: Radical Antisemitic Islamist Accuses Jawa of Racism.
Here’s some good news about Egyptian anti-torture activist Wael Abbas, who was the subject of this LGF post when YouTube canceled his video sharing account: YouTube restores account of Egypt anti-torture blogger. (Hat tip: Catttt.)