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[ NNSquad ] Pakistan access to YouTube restored after "blasphemous" vid removed
Greetings. Reportedly Google buckled on this one. It seems that to get videos removed from YouTube you don't need to be a rights holder -- being a religious zealot will suffice. But specific religions and images aside, and given that "blasphemy" is in the mind of the beholder, these sorts of actions seem quite risky on Google's part, and would seem to open the door to exactly the sort of ongoing hands-on, value-based, micromanaged content control that I've been led to believe was what Google sincerely wished to avoid. We know that DMCA orders will pull videos, but exactly how much blasphemy is required to zap vids that offend you, but to which you have no rights? Anyway, here's the story, including comment on the ramifications of the associated routing fiasco: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hhJjQR54kRIJrZR6Cz3EAjYHnivAD8V217300 --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator