Who YouTube cares about.

[judeanoncapta]

JERUSALEM – Israel's bruising war on the Islamic militants who control Gaza has moved online, where sites like YouTube and Facebook are the new battlegrounds.

Israel posted video of its attacks on militants firing rockets over the past five days on a new YouTube channel to try to show the world the threat against it.

YouTube temporarily yanked the clips on Tuesday after viewers, apparently supporters of Hamas, flagged it as objectionable and asked that it be taken down. The video-sharing Web site restored the video a few hours later, labeling it inappropriate for minors.

Supporters of Gaza's Hamas rulers, meanwhile, have posted images of the devastating Israeli offensive on both YouTube and Facebook and on blogs, uploading images of the carnage and suffering in the tiny seaside territory.

The militants themselves regularly update their Web sites in Arabic and English. In addition, they broadcast images of masked, uniformed fighters on Hamas TV, which was bombed by Israeli warplanes but continues to broadcast from a mobile unit.

"The blogosphere and the new media are basically a war zone" in a battle for world opinion, an Israeli military spokesman, Maj. Avital Leibovich, said Wednesday.

Gideon Doron, former chairman of the Israeli agency that oversaw the privatization of the country's television and radio services, said today's warfare includes fighting through the media.

"Many of the victories of modern warfare are mediated by the media," Doron said. "We have Internet and all kinds of modern communication, and the Israeli military apparently decided that it has to broadcast its message through these tools."

Leibovich said the new YouTube channel and a new blog the military is launching are an important part of Israel's attempt to explain its actions abroad.

One of the aerial surveillance videos Israel posted shows about a dozen figures that the military says are militants loading rockets onto a truck. They are eventually targeted by an air-launched missile and disappear in a white cloud as the truck explodes.

"We were saddened on Dec. 30, 2008 when YouTube took down some of our exclusive footage," the military wrote on its YouTube channel page. "Fortunately, due to blogger and viewer support, YouTube has returned the footage they removed."

In the past, YouTube has been pressed to take down videos depicting violence. The site has no automatic review, however, so anything posted runs until a viewer flags it and asks that it be taken down.

YouTube, which is owned by Google Inc., said it counts on community members to flag content that violates the community's guidelines.

"We review all flagged content quickly, and if we find that a video does violate the guidelines, we remove it, on average in under an hour," Victoria Grand, Head of Policy at YouTube, said in a statement.

"Occasionally, a video flagged by users is mistakenly taken down. When this is brought to our attention, we review the content and take appropriate action, which may include restoring videos that had been removed."

YouTube said it would not comment on individual videos or answer questions on the Israeli postings.

In May, Sen. Joseph Lieberman complained that the process was flawed because al-Qaida recruitment videos could still be seen on the site.

The Israeli military says its clips have attracted more than 230,000 views since going online Monday.

Israel launched the air assault on Saturday in response to rocket barrages launched from Gaza at Israeli towns. Hundreds of airstrikes across the Palestinian territory have caused huge damage and Gaza officials say some 390 Palestinians have been killed. Hamas says some 200 were members of its security forces, and the U.N. says at least 60 were civilians.

Militant rockets have reached farther into Israel than ever before, killing three Israeli civilians and a soldier.





I am not surprised at all but still upset.

[cjd]

There was a clip about the videos being pulled written in the New York Post yesterday stating how YouTube pulled the videos posted by Israel but leaves the pro Arab videos in place. I guess once the story on their policy made the main stream media YouTube hand little choice but to restore the videos posted by Israel. Who knows this may force them to change their policies slightly.

[MasterWolf1]

Whenever you all get a chance, feel free to stop at my channel. You will get a laugh at all the freaks that stop by and show their stupidity

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

FagTube is owned by the sick, self-hating Russian kapos Sergey Brin and Larry Page, yimach schmam vezichram. That rat and ape (what they love to see fellow Jews called by their Muzzie friends) should have frozen to death in a gulag, but thanks to Chaim they were able to leave Russia and strike it big.

[Zelhar]

FagTube is owned by the sick, self-hating Russian kapos Sergey Brin and Larry Page, yimach schmam vezichram. That rat and ape (what they love to see fellow Jews called by their Muzzie friends) should have frozen to death in a gulag, but thanks to Chaim they were able to leave Russia and strike it big.

But Larry Page isn't Russian nor Jewish.

[Americanhero1]

FagTube is owned by the sick, self-hating Russian kapos Sergey Brin and Larry Page, yimach schmam vezichram. That rat and ape (what they love to see fellow Jews called by their Muzzie friends) should have frozen to death in a gulag, but thanks to Chaim they were able to leave Russia and strike it big.

But Larry Page isn't Russian nor Jewish.

Larry Page mother is Jewish

[Zelhar]

FagTube is owned by the sick, self-hating Russian kapos Sergey Brin and Larry Page, yimach schmam vezichram. That rat and ape (what they love to see fellow Jews called by their Muzzie friends) should have frozen to death in a gulag, but thanks to Chaim they were able to leave Russia and strike it big.

But Larry Page isn't Russian nor Jewish.

Larry Page mother is Jewish

REally, that's news to me.

[Americanhero1]

FagTube is owned by the sick, self-hating Russian kapos Sergey Brin and Larry Page, yimach schmam vezichram. That rat and ape (what they love to see fellow Jews called by their Muzzie friends) should have frozen to death in a gulag, but thanks to Chaim they were able to leave Russia and strike it big.

But Larry Page isn't Russian nor Jewish.

Larry Page mother is Jewish

REally, that's news to me.

Despite his mother being Jewish, Page was raised similarly to his father: without a religion

[דוד בן זאב אריה]

I am not shocked I am going to make more videos in the coming days.

[SavetheWest]

I flagged some Al Qaeda videos where they made fun of some green berets who were killed and Youtube still hasn't taken those down.  I don't think the owners of youtube make these types of decisions.  They run Google which owns Youtube.  There is no way they have time to get deeply involved in the flagging controversies when they are doing things like launching the Google phone and Google street maps.  They have basic policies that they hope will give them the least amount of negative publicity while still making them money.  I don't see them having a pro Arab policy but it seems like whoever is in that department does.  Many company workers don't even know what is going on in the cubicle next to them and many high level workers never meet the CEO even if they've been there for years.  I bet you it's those affirmative action flunkies, like Chaim said, that are in that department.  It would be interesting to see how the CEO's and upper management react when issues get publicity.  I'm not giving them a pass, I guess just the benefit of the doubt, since Google and Youtube are such huge organizations and they may not know that this stuff is going on because they are so busy.

[Xoce]

FagTube is owned by the sick, self-hating Russian kapos Sergey Brin and Larry Page, yimach schmam vezichram. That rat and ape (what they love to see fellow Jews called by their Muzzie friends) should have frozen to death in a gulag, but thanks to Chaim they were able to leave Russia and strike it big.

CF is right on, yet again.