Comments on: Nazi uproar over YouTube leaving bad choices all around

Google and YouTube face a legal demand to permanently purge the video-sharing site of anti-Semitic videos.

[mphoepfner]

If censorship was wrong for the Nazis, then how can it be right for Jews? Either it's wrong for everyone, or it's right for everyone. Jewish intolerance of freedom of speech only reinforces the very stereotypes Jews should be working to eliminate. If a non-Jew cannot criticize a Jew without being denounced as anti-Semitic, then Jews indeed wield a disproportionate degree of social power, proving fanatical neo-Nazis right after all.

[inachu]

Neoconservatisim is just as bad as nazi imagery.
Bulldozers knocking down homes while people eat and sleep in them is outright inhuman and just as evil as hitler.

[martist7]

Jesus did not die at the hand of the Jews.

[jvcbnssc]

If Google stood for what it did in the early days before the IPO and before they had stockholders to please, I would hope that they would have upheld the idea of free speech. I'm no Nazi, and I can't stand racists, but free speech is free speech. Being an American, I believe it's our duty to uphold that ideal - and with that we have to take the good with the bad. If we want our children to be able to march on the capitol for something that they believe in, who are we to tell anyone else that free speech is only for positive, good things. It's all or nothing.

On the other end, Google is a company, not our government. They are a business and they would be offending a lot more people by not doing something.

But my opinion is that we should retain all sorts of information on the internet, even things that are offensive, so we can learn from the ignorance of man, and teach our children differently...

[donjonson]

I agree with all of these anti censorship comments. my only qualm is when youtube keeps taking town these "anti Muslim" videos. What is up with that. Why is everyone in support of that but not this? I saw this 5 part series on how Islam's real goal is world domination. Well youtube apparently found that to be offensive enough to remove but not the blatent anti semetic stuff? I don't believe what this Muslim video is saying but It is kind of a double standard going on here.

[donjonson]

I agree with all of these anti censorship comments. my only qualm is when youtube keeps taking town these "anti Muslim" videos. What is up with that. Why is everyone in support of that but not this? I saw this 5 part series on how Islam's real goal is world domination. Well youtube apparently found that to be offensive enough to remove but not the blatent anti semetic stuff? I don't believe what this Muslim video is saying but It is kind of a double standard going on here.

[mphoepfner]

Islam isn't the only religion with designs on the world, but I agree, YouTube certainly should not be caving in to Muslim pressure.

There's a well researched 'book' online (PDF) which may open some eyes. Google: when victims rule

[pchesels]

Something to remember:

There are many countries in this world today that believe the holocaust never happened. Take Iran for instance. These Nazi videos are evidence that leads up to the extinguishing of the jews.

Even though Germany may not like nazi vidoes on youtube, all people from all countries should be able to view these videos to remember what the jews went through and to never forget what really happened.

Let's not let other countries get away with trying to stop the truth and deny history for their own cause of hatred.

What happened in the past is unexcusable but real. People need to know the truth.

[Preston666]

YOU should be censored for your ignorant and virtulently anti-Semitic comment. Cut the crap about the Jews killing Jesus. It's a BS lie and an OLD one at that. Now hurry off and paint on that little hitler mustache. Sheesh.

[beck8]

I haven?t read all the comments, but this article and many of the comments are missing several important points:

First, YouTube prohibits anti-Semitic videos as explained by the ?Terms of Use? and ?Community Guidelines?:

?We encourage free speech and defend everyone's right to express unpopular points of view. But we don't permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity).?

Second, YouTube relies on a flagging mechanism that the community is supposed to use to mark such content.

Third, my own attempts at flagging the following video as hate speech has resulted in no response from YouTube in several days:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_K1fYTQGV8&feature=related

BTW, I?m a Christian and an American, but even the poster admits that the video contains hate speech rehashed. Whether you believe that the poster actually captured this audio or deceiving created the audio, this video contains hate speech. For more such videos, just search on ?hate X?, ?f@ck X?, or something similar where X is ?a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, ...etc.?

[TinyIoda]

i love how your government has made you so paranoid that you wont type KKK into a search engine!!

theyve done a good job on you and others like you

[KThompson2]

I $#%^! can't stand intolerance !!

oh, wait...

[mrbonaparte]

If people want to watch this stuff, they will find it.

[matzahthedog]

re: BaiRen

Not saying that I disagree, but I just wanted to point out something you probably already know. Jesus was born a Jew, lived a Jew, and died as...a JEW. The religion of Christianity came around years later due to his followers deciding that he was a holy deity or an immediate family member of. Throughout history, the Jews have faced extreme discrimination. Would killing one of their own made any sense??

[matzahthedog]

Sorry about the personal attack-it wasn't meant to be, and rereading my comments, I realize it was. SORRY!

[mphoepfner]

Don't ignorant people have the right to express their views too? No one's being forced to listen to them, so what's the big deal?

[fuzzyCWD]

how bout this...you ban anti-sematic, you also must ban PRO-sematic...otherwise, you are forced into a BIASED opinion brought about through lack of information. same as if you were treated to strictly anti.

[beck8]

Oh nice. Punctuation whacked. What happened? Let?s try that again:

I haven?t read all the comments, but this article and many of the comments are missing several important points:

First, YouTube prohibits anti-Semitic videos as explained by the ?Terms of Use? and ?Community Guidelines?:

?We encourage free speech and defend everyone's right to express unpopular points of view. But we don't permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity).?

Second, YouTube relies on a flagging mechanism that the community is supposed to use to mark such content.

Third, my own attempts at flagging the following video as hate speech has resulted in no response from YouTube in several days:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_K1fYTQGV8&feature=related

BTW, I?m a Christian and an American, but even the poster admits that the video contains hate speech rehashed. Whether you believe that the poster actually captured this audio or deceiving created the audio, this video contains hate speech. For more such videos, just search on ?hate X?, ?f@ck X?, or something similar where X is ?a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, ...etc.?

[itango]

Please get your facts straight. The ROMANS killed Jesus, not the Jews. Jesus himself was a Jew. He was killed for polilical reasons, not for religios reasons - he was becoming too "popular" and a challenge to the establishment.

And no, I am not a Jew, I used to be a Cathoilic.