YouTube censors Israel Army

From Israel National News...

The Israel Defense Forces has opened an IDF channel on the YouTube video site which features videos of the War in Gaza made available by the IDF Spokesperson's Unit. Some of the videos have been taken down by the YouTube management....

The night video shows Hamas terrorists clearly loading Grad-type Katyusha rockets onto pickup trucks. Towards the end of the video, a great explosion and fire is seen as the IDF terminated the terrorist activity with extreme prejudice.

The [...] video and others were apparently taken down due to numerous complaints by pro-Arab viewers who "reported" the video as inappropriate.

Here's the video (preceded by a 13 minute commercial) from Israel National News.

I wonder what would happen if hundreds of people uploaded the video. Would YouTube censor all of them? YouTube's favorite tactic is to lie and claim copyright violation when none exists. But it'd keep them busy trying to censor so many uploads.

Posted by Danny Carlton at December 31, 2008 10:10 AM