So one day after introducing their new Messaging system it appears hackers have stuck. And the only way to reactivate your Facebook acct is to scan and send Govt Id? WHAT!!
- Larry Lewis
"Just the other day, President Obama urged repressive regimes around the world to stop censoring the Internet. But at the same time, the United States Congress is hatching a plan to censor the Internet here at home. A new bill being debated this week would instruct the Attorney General to create an Internet blacklist of sites that US Internet providers would be required to block."
- Kevin L
from Bookmarklet
More signs that the NWO is moving closer to tightening it's vice grip on global netizens!
- Larry Lewis
I went looking for information on the sequel yesterday, and was bummed that they had pushed back the release from July to December.
- Michael R. Bernstein
A new Tron movie? I totally missed the promo for this...guess I'm working too hard. Tron was one of my favorite movies when I was young...it's still a classic.
- Larry Lewis
Who wouldn't be shocked to see someone die in a horrible accident? Brutal is right, and pretty far off YT's community guidelines (http://www.youtube.com/t...).
- Stephen Mack
Yeah, the whole "faces of death" thing on youtube doesn't seem right. Still, I watched.
- Josh Haley
BTW, the internal answer to "how do I get offensive content taken down" is "just use the regular UI and flag it, and our reviewers will pick it up". I think that's kind of cool.
- Steve and 3 other people
I dont understand whats all this censoring about. You all watched it, so why cant another fellow human being, out of his own free will, get to watch it too? Why should we exercise control over what another person can and cannot see? I dont see anything wrong with the subject matter of the video.
- TrafficBug
That was a human being, with a family and friends. His death did not belong on video being shown around the world. If it were a relative of yours, would you want that person's death up there for all to see? I don't advocate for censorship much, but YT has rules -- porn gets pulled, shocking violence gets pulled. Don't like it? Set up your own video site or use one of the many others that don't have those rules.
- Stephen Mack
I flagged this because I like to watch YouTube videos with my 2yr old son. YouTube has no content-filtering system, and this video violated their TOS. If the guy climbed down from the train (i.e. wasn't dead) at the end, I wouldn't have flagged it.
- Steve and 3 other people
So a completely subjective reason, in other words. Thankfully you're a nice and generous guy (I'm sure).
- Christopher Galtenberg
Christopher, everything is subjective. If Steve hadn't flagged it, someone else would have. The video clearly violated YouTube's terms of service (just like porn or other objectionable content), and would have been removed eventually regardless. I happen to support that decision, for the reasons I typed out earlier that you didn't reply to. And in other news, I've known Steve for over 10 years. He is a nice and generous guy and a wonderful father. In contrast, how would you describe yourself?
- Stephen Mack
I would describe myself as 'not your nanny'. That said, please drive home safe.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Then I'm glad it was removed. I saw that about 6 months ago and still can't get it out of my head. If it helps, the back-story is that he was threatening to commit suicide by grabbing the lines if his demands weren't met and the apparently forgot the lines were there as he was fidgeting later.
- Kevin Fox
For the past decade, Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell has been moving the data from his brain onto computers -- where he knows it will be safe.
- Larry Lewis
from Bookmarklet
"A small business on Twitter could potentially use the location feature to reach out to local customers, or a Twitter user hungry for pizza could search for nearby pizza joints offering specials," The New York Times speculated.
- Larry Lewis
from Bookmarklet