Comments on: A call for broad distribution of presidential debate video

Letters to Republican and Democratic leaders encourage them to let video from 2008 debates legally wind up on sites like YouTube.

[the1kingarthur]

edited by anyone online????????

This so wrong for so many reasons, and sets a very dangerous precedent. If any debate is released to the public, it should be released in its entirety, and let the public decide. Too many politicians and reporters have for years promoted the idea that the general public is not only too stupid to decide on issues of importance, the politicians and reporters feel they HAVE A RIGHT TO TELL THE GENENERAL PUBLIC what they should and should not think.

I advise anyone reading this post boycott any uploading of any debate that has been edited, spliced, or other wise manipulated.

[skeptik]

Oh please

Either go back and re-read the story, or go home and shut up.

This is all about letting the people think for themselves, the very antithesis of your complaint about people being told what to think.
The entire debate will be aired and released whole. This is simply about allowing users to publish clips, compilations or reworkings of the whole. Obviously some of these will be satire, humor or political jabs. Which are all reasonable actions in a world of free speach.
The only people who would have a problem with that are those who ARE trying to control what people think.