This first part is old news, but YouTube keeps having technical difficulties which conveniently freeze the view counts of most Scientology-critical videos, keeping them off the front page. It came to a head on the 10th, with almost every protest video frozen. After the initial upload wave of 2/10 died down, these technical difficulties sorted themselves out nicely. And surely it was just a coincidence, right?
WELL.
If you still harbor any doubts as to whether YouTube has bent over and presented its bare heinie to the Cult of Personality, I offer the following tidbit for your perusal:
You remember that initial "Message to Scientology" video that got the whole ball rolling? The one with millions of pageviews that's been up for weeks and received so much attention from the straight media?
Yup! Removed as of a couple of hours ago. TOS violations, don't you know!
Good job, YouTube! Why don't you try and kick the nest one more time? I think there might still be a few hornets left in there.
Sure, this could be the work of a sympathetic insider, intended to piss people off and remind us that this problem still exists so we'll be good and stoked for those March 15 protests. ORRRR it might just be the threat of a multimilion dollar lawsuit from our pals in Clearwater.
I guess I shouldn't be too surprised since YouTube are belong to Google, and Google has a history of taking it up right the ol' poop chute from Scientology. They once got Google to remove 126 Web pages (including Operation Clambake) for copyright infringement. And Google folded until there was mass outcry, then claimed the removal of Clambake was an error. Boy, those technical difficulties sure do get around.
Don't be evil, my foot.
Edit: It is being re-uploaded like crazy. I can't keep up with them all. I am also seieng reports that YouTube is setting some videos to 'invisible' instead of deleting them.
Edit Edit: Got a very interesting quote from an ARS post:
It's getting much bigger than just one video. I've been tracking
uploads to YouTube tagged 'Scientology' for four days...
Search for 'Scientology', Sorted By Date:
Date Total New
10/2 6180 ~+650
11/2 7640 +1460
12/2 8260 +620
13/2 7870 -390 (!)
14/2 7730 -50 (!)
February 14, 2008
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It looks like the evil censor-monkeys got to
ReplyDeletehttp://www.partyvan.info/index.php/Project_Chanology
as well, because it's been down for at least a day. (This sucks, since people will then have to rely on Encyclopedia "let's stick the Goatse image behind every innocuous link we can think of" Dramatica for their Anon news. There wouldn't happen to be another place where I could keep up with Anon, is there?)
I've heard that ED is being DDOS'd like whoa. Chanology is supposed to be back soon, at least.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to know how they can claim copyright infringement if it is a religion. They're pretty much admitting that this was invented.
ReplyDeleteProject_Chanology does load, I think, but only after like ten friggin' minutes. There's a European mirror site, I think, which you can safely get to from ED's (hahahaha, ED) Project Chanology entry. Failing that, Enturbulation.org would be my next suggestion for all concerned.
ReplyDeleteI prefer Enturb to partyvan. Better organized.
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