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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 10:24 PM
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Lieberman Wants Terrorist Content Yanked From YouTube
Edited on Mon May-19-08 10:25 PM by brooklynite
Source: ABC News

A U.S. senator has asked Google to remove videos -- produced by Islamist terrorists -- from YouTube.

In a letter to Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., said, "A great majority of these videos document horrific attacks on American soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan."

Other videos, Lieberman said, "provide weapons training, speeches by al-Qaeda leadership, and general material intended to radicalize potential recruits."

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/LawPolitics/story?id=4889745&page=1
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FARAFIELD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 10:26 PM
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1. I want him yanked from our caucus
Why do we put up with that turd? Maybe Reid can send him a "strongly worded memo"
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wmbrew0206 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:30 AM
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25. Lieberman gives the us a majority in the Senate
Do you really want the republicans to control the Senate just because you don't like Lieberman?
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 10:56 AM
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34. Here's hoping we don't need his sorry ass after November.
Bake
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 09:05 AM
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28. He is a tool for his Corporate masters
They will just post their shit some where else
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texastoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 10:27 PM
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2. Document many horrific attacks, I'm sure
I guess he doesn't have the stomach to take responsibility for his actions.
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Joe Bacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:27 AM
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24. Neither did his mentor Judah Benjamin
But then, LIEberman knows that his days are numbered.

Get as many Democrats into the Senate as we can so we can marginalize him.

LIEberman's Thru with 52!
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 10:27 PM
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3. Yeah I'm sure youtube is the first place people go
when they are considering becoming a suicide bomber...
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 10:28 PM
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4. "terrorist content...."
Edited on Mon May-19-08 10:31 PM by mike_c


edit: On second thought, maybe he's on to something: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2b1D5w82yU
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D23MIURG23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 11:30 PM
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12. That video should be banned.
:mad:
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hokies4ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 05:28 AM
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21. Damn you! :-)
That's like the 5th time I've watched this video in the past month. :rofl:
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nwliberalkiwi Donating Member (82 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:03 AM
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26. What If They Didn't Show Images
What if they didn't show images of the Holocaust---does that mean it didn't happen? No to censorship!!!!
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 03:53 PM
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36. You know. I really didn't need that. LOL
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 10:30 PM
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5. According to Mike Malloy, tonight, Schmidt told Joe to pound sand
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New Dawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 10:31 PM
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6. Typical Neocon Joseph Lieberman denounces everyone who does not support him as "a terrorist"
His version of YouTube would only have videos about himself on it. And John McCain.
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Beregond2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 10:32 PM
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7. I want Lieberman's tongue yanked from his head.
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skoalyman Donating Member (751 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 10:38 PM
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9. first you'd have to yank it out of bushes
azz ;-)
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 10:38 PM
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8. "Terrorist Content"..
probably videos from Iraq.
http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/gallery/
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silverojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 11:25 PM
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10. As if LIEberman even looks at YouTube
He just got this bullshit from his favorite pundits, like Sean Insanity and Bellow Reilly. :puke:
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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 11:29 PM
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11. And kgfnally wants Lieberman yanked from the Senate floor
I won't get my wish, though, and I don't think he'll get his, either.
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cosmicone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:26 AM
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15. It just might happen
if the democrats win 58 seats in the senate. They won't need Joe Neocon traitor anymore.
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neverforget Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 11:46 PM
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13. Freedom of Speech with his neo-con exceptions
:puke: :mad:
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Indenturedebtor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:13 AM
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14. Well it's a fine line towards blocking propaganda
Theirs and ours. Our enemies (whether self made or not) foreign and domestic, shouldn't be allowed to propagandize in the US.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 05:38 AM
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22. It's against the law for OUR government to propagandize
in the US.. Yet those Generals and the Pentagon, and EVERY DAMN MEDIA OUTLET in Ameirca sure did it.
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Indenturedebtor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 10:55 AM
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33. I know it. Isn't it even considered a form of treason?
Propaganda is classified as an act of war isn't it?
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neverforget Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:32 PM
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35. Who gets to decide what's propaganda and what's not? Lieberman?
You? Me? If we are so weak that propaganda from a terrorist is having an effect on us, then we have a problem much larger than the propaganda itself.
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Indenturedebtor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:23 PM
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37. Yeah I don't know how you could really implement it... good point
Not without stomping on civil liberties anyways.

But as much as I hate Lie - berman, I don't think this is an unreasonable request. Helping terrorists terrorise people is something worth speaking out against.
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neverforget Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:26 PM
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38. Sure speak out against it, counter it, but censoring it is....UnAmerican
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:45 AM
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16. Well, I didn't read the article (yet)
or read the posts- all I can say to Joe is "Go piss up a rope"
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crimsonblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 01:10 AM
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17. In other news, an American politician
called for censoring of information because it provided the wrong image. FUCK YOU, Joe.
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Egnever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 01:50 AM
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18. this is part of what makes his foreign policy so retarded
you tube terrorist training videos are a perfect way to track suspected terrorists. If he paid any attention to what in the fuck his evil plans are capable of instead of just spouting off at the mouth about stuff he doesn't understand he would know he could use all that FISA shit to use these videos as a means to actually track down terrorist sympathizers, but of course as we all know by now the man is cracked.


These morons could have actually used all these fucking powers they conscripted while they were running amok to actually do something, instead they didn't have the understanding of how to use the tools they had and so we got piss for results and got our rights trampled on completely.

My level of disgust with these simpletons knows no bounds.


Hey Joe!

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Fedja Donating Member (544 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 04:08 AM
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19. Youtube?
Someone needs to show him Liveleak so he can have his stroke.
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badgervan Donating Member (745 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 04:18 AM
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20. No Censorship
Once the door is opened, what get's censored next?
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wmbrew0206 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 08:47 AM
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27. Too late
If youTube doesn't allow pornography, aren't they already censoring their content?
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 07:16 AM
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23. What about the video mash-ups, like Brokeback Al Qaeda and Osama Smells Finger Falls From Cave? n/t
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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 10:12 AM
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29. Update: YouTube refuses Lieberman request
From Federal Computer World:

The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today asked Google, the parent company of the popular online video-sharing site, YouTube, to “immediately remove content produced by Islamist terrorist organizations” from YouTube and prevent similar content from reappearing. However, the company immediately refused to comply with his request.

...snip...

However, YouTube in a response this afternoon, said taking those actions was not so simple and refused to remove all videos mentioning or featuring these groups without consideration of whether the videos were legal, nonviolent or non-hate speech videos.

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Egnever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 10:14 AM
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30. Love these guys
Google rox
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 10:19 AM
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31. let the parodies begin!!
does this mean the undead terrorist will be banned as well???
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 10:29 AM
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32. How 'bout videos which document "horrific attacks on" people of Iraq or Afghanistan?
"CENSOR THE FACTS!!!" screech the rightwingnuts.
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