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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: 5, Insightful) by Capt. Obvious on Wednesday June 15 2016, @09:36AM

    by Capt. Obvious (6089) on Wednesday June 15 2016, @09:36AM (#360453)

    It's not really private. It's a public website hosted by a company that claims to be content neutral to take advantage of Safe Harbor immunity while being built (esp. originally) on copyright infringement.

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  • (Score: 2) by ticho on Wednesday June 15 2016, @12:29PM

    by ticho (89) on Wednesday June 15 2016, @12:29PM (#360484) Homepage Journal

    Private != privately owned. And they are far from content-neutral these days. See all the automated takedowns in past few years, and drama around it.

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @01:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @01:11PM (#360507)

    If they were anywhere near content-neutral, they would have around 70% porn.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by jdavidb on Wednesday June 15 2016, @02:54PM

    by jdavidb (5690) on Wednesday June 15 2016, @02:54PM (#360566) Homepage Journal
    Yes, but YouTube still shouldn't have to give up their freedoms. The sermonizer's freedoms shouldn't come at the expense of the freedoms of other people.
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 15 2016, @05:52PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday June 15 2016, @05:52PM (#360658) Journal
    a company that claims to be content neutral

    Where do they claim that?

    The only claim I see is what's in black and white on their website:

    We encourage free speech and try to defend your right to express unpopular points of view, but we don't permit hate speech. Hate speech refers to content that promotes violence or hatred against individuals or groups based on certain attributes, such as: race or ethnic origin religion disability gender age veteran status sexual orientation/gender identity

    Some actual claims. [google.com]