Robert Soloway
Robert Soloway, a man identified as one of the world's most prolific
Video removed
YouTube removed one of my videos today. It's unclear to me why. When I open the YouTube page it has a message that reads "This video has been removed due to terms of use violation." I scanned their "Terms of Use" and "Community Guidelines" and didn't see how I had violated either one of them. There's a lot of talk about how the mass media slants the media one way or the other. Some people believe that blogging (or vlogging) is a way to get information that is free from censorship. Unfortunately, the tools that people use for blogging (like blogger and YouTube) are not free from censorship. Dropping people's videos from YouTube is a perfect example of that. I went back through some of the videos that I've blogged about and discovered that there were quite a few that displayed "This video is no longer available."
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
From: Patrick Melo
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 3:46 PM
To: YouTube Service [mailto:service@youtube.com]
Subject: RE: Video Removed: Inappropriate Content
I belive the video is worth having online. Can you give me specific details on how the video is "inappropriate"?
-PatrickFrom: YouTube Service [mailto:service@youtube.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:13 PM
To: Patrick Melo
Subject: Video Removed: Inappropriate Content
YouTube | Broadcast Yourself™Dear Member:After being flagged by members of the YouTube community and reviewed by YouTube staff, the video below has been removed due to its inappropriate nature.Please refer to our Terms of Use and the Community Guidelines for more information on what video material is not permitted on YouTube.— The YouTube TeamCopyright © 2007 YouTube, Inc.