YouTube Removes Viral Video on Palin’s Churches For Inappropriate Content

[Amerigo Vespucci]

See the video at the links below:

YouTube Removes Viral Video on Palin’s Churches For Inappropriate Content
By: Nicole Belle on Monday, September 15th, 2008 at 3:00 PM - PDT

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/15/youtube-removes-viral-video-on-palins-churches-for-inappropriate-content/


Sarah Palin's Churches and The Third Wave from Bruce Wilson on Vimeo.

Talk To Action:

Sarah Palin was baptized at Wasilla Assembly of God and attended the church for over two and a half decades, and she has been publicly blessed by a number of pastors and religious leaders employed by and associated with that church.

Last Sunday our research team released a video, a ten-minute mini-documentary, focusing on the Wasilla Assemblies of God and the video seemed on the verge of a massive “viral” breakthrough when YouTube pulled it down, citing “inappropriate content”.

At the point the video was censored by YouTube it had been viewed by almost 160,000 people. The short of it is that YouTube has censored a video documentary that appeared to be close to having an effect on a hard fought and contentious American presidential election. Read on…

[anonymous171]

1. It was probably being constantly flagged by Palindrones

[99th_Monkey]

2. Those bastids!!!! So YouTube admits it allowed 160,000 views of "inappropriate content"?

:wtf:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[trueblue2007]

4. Why is a church service being termed INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT??

What in the world were they doing?

[searchingforlight]

3. That is frightening to watch.

[TomInTib]

5. Man, that is some unsettling shit.

I have been around those kind of people in the past.

The mere thought that one of them is now running as a candidate for anything makes my blood run cold.

[1Hippiechick]

6. SOMEone will have it SOMEwhere.....it'll turn up again, I believe. n/t

[truthisfreedom]

7. Youtube is owned by the right-wing google people.

Keep that in mind.

[Greg K]

8. Since when is Google right-wing? nt

[HughMoran]

10. Lol - I know?

Google right wing? huh?

[me b zola]

9. McCain has deemed the truth to be inappropriate content

...and has consequently removed it from his campaign.

[rhett o rick]

11. Youtube seems to censor to help the right wing. nm

[holiday]

12. what was on the video?

[rhett o rick]

16. I didn't see it. But I remember a few weeks ago when a video showed a Blackwater

personnel helping the Feds in San Francisco (this is all from memory so forgive errors) on a medical marijuana bust. When the liberal public started getting excited it was taken down. Now who's decision and why was it taken down????

[blitzburgh55]

13. This one is still there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9tJX-e24iQ&feature=related

HuffPo has this one

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/sarah-palins-churches-and_b_124611.html

[barack the house]

14. Confused if it's the clip I'm thinking it's here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0UQbA0ZmmM

[intheflow]

15. Here's the pertinent snip from the article

explaining that:

Two days ago I contacted YouTube asking what in the video was deemed "inappropriate" but I haven't received a reply. Meanwhile, YouTube has allowed someone else to post our video in full, but it is no longer in our control and so we no longer are able to update information we had included with our original video, including links to our articles which provide sourcing and documentation on our video.

I'm wondering what the commentary was they were updating, and if that's the reason their clip was pulled but allowed up by someone else. Since I never saw the commentary with their clip, I'll probably never know. (Though, of course, we won't ever really know anyway because we're talking about corporate America here.)

But you're right. If these guys were putting up hate speech or something to accompany their video, then this is a non-story since the clip in the headline is available elsewhere.