Monday, September 8, 2008

YouTube Discrimination

Hey Bloggers!
Recently YouTube removed videos from an organization called Live Action Films. "Live Action Films is a youth lead human rights movement dedicated to the respect and protection of all human life including the unborn. They use media and educational presentations to share the truth about life and threats to life, mainly abortion." Lila Rose, the president of Live Action, recently went undercover to Planned Parenthood and discovered that Planned Parenthood is discrimintory and is breaking laws. The videos of the phone conversations proving these things were posted on Live Actions YouTube channel, but recently YouTube removed them for censored content. However, unlike other videos on YouTube, these are not sexually explicit, use bad language, or contain anything that YouTube lists as inappropriate. When asked, on camera by Google CEO Eric Schmidt, why the videos were removed, YouTube claimed they knew nothing about it and would look into it. I have listed below ways to help stop this censorship, as directed by Live Action:

"There are MANY things that you can do to help us...
1) Make your Facebook status say:Stand Against YouTube Discrimination: http://liveactionfilms.org/youtube/

2) Invites your friends to join this group and tell them about what is going on.

3) Call YouTube at (650-343-2960) and ask them why specifically the Live Action Films videos were removed and request that they restore the "LiveActionFilms" videos. It's an answering machine that says they're experiencing "high call volume". Be sure to leave a message.

4) Visit: http://liveactionfilms.org/youtube/ and read about the many other things you can do to fight back.

YouTube has unfairly targeted other groups like ours in the past. Often with enough fight, YouTube backs down and restores the censored videos.Keep fighting for truth and the respect & protection of all human life!
David R. Schmidt Live Action Films, Media Director "

I encourage you all to help end this and to restore these videos back to YouTube. You can visit Live Action's website to watch the removed videos and also to learn more about Live Action. The website can be accessed by clicking on Live Action's name in this post or by following the link at the right.

*Edit: All words in "quotations" are Live Action's words and not mine. One of my friends pointed out that I should do this just so that no body from Live Action gets upset. :-)

Heidi Marie

4 comments:

JC Reilley said...

Awesome! Yay Live Action! Boo YouTube!

Dameo said...

YouTube emailed me back giving no reason why it was taken off, but just that it went against their "Community Guidelines". Poo-hooo on that one!

Heidi Marie said...

Yeah, really Damien...Poo-hoo! :-p How on earth can it go against "Community Guidelines"?? YouTube just can't come up with a better reason.

Gardening Girlie said...

Heidi, I copied you and got a blogspot!!!