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Youtube Censors Anti-gay Sermon

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday June 15 2016, @06:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the abiding-by-the-CoC dept.

butthurt writes:

The evening after the massacre at Orlando's Pulse nightclub, a California pastor took the opportunity to preach that "God said: When you find a sodomite, put them to death.'" A video of the sermon was uploaded by the church, then deleted "for violating YouTube's policy on hate speech." A copy of the video uploaded by someone else, describing the sermon as "despicable," was allowed to remain.

coverage:

further information:
Facebook page for Verity Baptist Church
(archived copy)

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Bot on Wednesday June 15 2016, @06:46AM

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday June 15 2016, @06:46AM (#360405) Journal

    And I did not speak out, because I was already angry they censors legitimate vids when some media corporation tells them to.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @08:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @08:09AM (#360425)

    First they came for the unlicensed music videos. Second the music videos got licensed and went legit. Fourth the anti gay sermons got First Amendment protection under religious freedom.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @01:48PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @01:48PM (#360526)

      First they came for the unlicensed music videos. Second the music videos got licensed and went legit.

      Third they came for low-quality videos of babies dancing. Really, those leeching baby pirate freeloaders asked for it, not paying a few paltry million $ to license 20 seconds of barely-audible music.

  • (Score: 2) by Gravis on Wednesday June 15 2016, @05:48PM

    by Gravis (4596) on Wednesday June 15 2016, @05:48PM (#360656)

    i would like to point out that youtube is a private institution. also, this pastor has not been arrested, charged, put in jail or even told, "hey, you can't say that!" the only thing youtube did was remove it from their site for violating the terms of service.

    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday June 19 2016, @09:29PM

      by Bot (3902) on Sunday June 19 2016, @09:29PM (#362546) Journal

      Indeed one must not forget about that.
      You do not put video on the internet using youtube.
      You put video into youtube and they are so kind to grab some rights over it and let people watch it, if you are nice.

      But the point still remains, relevant quiz:

      Q. YouTube motto is...?

      1. Broadcast yourself
      2. All your video are belong to us
      3. Skip this ad in 5..4..3..2..1.. *click*

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