2-10-08: Day of protests against Scientology

Hawkwings · Post by **Hawkwings** » 2008-02-15 04:58pm

Is Youtube really being pushed around so easily? I mean, they're owned by Google, and Google loves to take on BS copyright claims.

Hawkwings · Post by **Hawkwings** » 2008-02-15 05:00pm

edit: actually, if it's TOS violation, I suppose there's justification.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2008-02-15 05:07pm

Hawkwings wrote:edit: actually, if it's TOS violation, I suppose there's justification.

Youtube's terms of service are rather twitchy and vague. Just ask Poe about the debacles involving his fan videos. Anybody can file a complaint to get it removed with minimal proof required on their part.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2008-02-15 05:31pm

Indeed. Scientology claimed the video was 'hate speech' because it talked about destroying the church. Its back up now (last I checked), apparently youtube got 100,000 angry emails.

TithonusSyndrome · Post by **TithonusSyndrome** » 2008-02-16 01:43am

Zuul wrote:
Tithonus Syndrome wrote:What else would a channer suggest? I haven't seen them offer anything to fill the vacuum in the lives of the people they would deconvert, and if you see no danger inherent in just letting people drift from one irrational belief system to another after you clamp down on the first one instead of giving them some critical thinking skills, then know that you're just tackling one strain of the disease and doing nothing to wipe out the disease in it's entirety.
From what I saw, they want to replace Scientology with stable family life instead of cultish disconnections and relocations. It's hardly something to bemoan.

Hardly, but when I see pictures of middle-aged women with signs telling the story of their adult son's life being ruined by a money-hungry cult at these protests in numbers, "channer" doesn't come to mind for me.