Q: If Senator Lieberman succeeds in forcing YouTube to remove videos produced by Islamic terrorists, will that censorship have any lasting effect on how people or businesses use the Internet?
| posted by Fast Company staff
While the specific example is low-impact, the precedent would be troubling. YouTube and similar content-sharing businesses dance on an uncomfortable line between 'carriers' and 'broadcasters'; if their legal status is pushed to that of 'broadcasters,' new, different services and distribution models will need to emerge for users trying to create or disseminate controversial or unpopular content.
Senator Lieberman is a jerk of the first water to begin with. It seems to me he was one of the "movers" behind the UN-Patriot Act, which has no truth to it other than that it is nothing but an act.
No one forces anyone to look at what's on YouTube or any other site. I prefer the terrorists put their stuff there where we can keep an eye on them, rather than shoving them off so we can't..
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. Good advice in any century.
I believe the internet to be one of the most innovative and technological advances of our time. However it seems to also be quite destructive in the realm of spreading poison to the users. Children, students as well as adults all seem to be influenced by the latest download of nonsense available. What is encouraging can be how the facts of those destined to destroy themselves through hatred, political and religious beliefs, smut and hideous diversions can be brought to a close by their own stories. I truly understand that through knowledge comes understanding but not tolerance of allowing our society to embrace by any means the viewing of terrorism within a media such as the net especially brought by a company that is only concerned with its exploitation of junk.
The internet was purpose built to send communication around blockages and providers that block specific content will find themselves “worked around” by providers in different countries.
I the short run it may impact a lot of stuff, but in the long term, the internet will just find workarounds to supply what people want to see.
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May 28, 2008 at 11:24am by Fast Company staff
To get both sides of the Lieberman-YouTube issue, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHT6FOI-Haw (for a Foxs interview with Senator Lieberman) and to http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/opinion/25sun1.html?scp=1&sq=lieberman... (for a defense of YouTube's refusal to take the videos down.)
May 28, 2008 at 1:42pm by Jeff Eaton
While the specific example is low-impact, the precedent would be troubling. YouTube and similar content-sharing businesses dance on an uncomfortable line between 'carriers' and 'broadcasters'; if their legal status is pushed to that of 'broadcasters,' new, different services and distribution models will need to emerge for users trying to create or disseminate controversial or unpopular content.
May 28, 2008 at 2:02pm by Jon Gillett
It will have a dramatic and appalling impact on terrorists everywhere...
May 28, 2008 at 5:22pm by Paul Griffith
NO, it will not impact user's use of the interet.
May 28, 2008 at 6:41pm by Carel Two-Eagle
Senator Lieberman is a jerk of the first water to begin with. It seems to me he was one of the "movers" behind the UN-Patriot Act, which has no truth to it other than that it is nothing but an act.
No one forces anyone to look at what's on YouTube or any other site. I prefer the terrorists put their stuff there where we can keep an eye on them, rather than shoving them off so we can't..
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. Good advice in any century.
May 28, 2008 at 10:07pm by richard covington
I believe the internet to be one of the most innovative and technological advances of our time. However it seems to also be quite destructive in the realm of spreading poison to the users. Children, students as well as adults all seem to be influenced by the latest download of nonsense available. What is encouraging can be how the facts of those destined to destroy themselves through hatred, political and religious beliefs, smut and hideous diversions can be brought to a close by their own stories. I truly understand that through knowledge comes understanding but not tolerance of allowing our society to embrace by any means the viewing of terrorism within a media such as the net especially brought by a company that is only concerned with its exploitation of junk.
May 29, 2008 at 3:08am by mohit sharma
no it ll not affect.
May 29, 2008 at 12:39pm by Michael De'Shazer
1984. Good book.
May 30, 2008 at 9:52am by Allen Laudenslager
The internet was purpose built to send communication around blockages and providers that block specific content will find themselves “worked around” by providers in different countries.
I the short run it may impact a lot of stuff, but in the long term, the internet will just find workarounds to supply what people want to see.