I *love love love* that you call them out. More people should call out companies that do things – in the individuals eye – as hypocritical, as they put forth a face (i.e. “Do No Evil”) that is vague enough to be interpreted a google plus ways. I *think* it’s one way. you may see it as a variation of the same way, and reader X can see it another. That’s the problem with generic company policy like that.

Islamic terrorism genre is scary, but the psycho “Jesus Camps” scare the bejeezus out of me as well, but I haven’t sought out either genre on youtube – I am not interested in the latest jihad, nor am I interested in the latest brainwashing of American youth that’s just as bad (‘kill yourself for Jesus, kids, it’s what God wants). I don’t search it, but it exists, and I like knowing that if in ten years I want to learn about it, I can, as scary as that is.

I wish Google/YouTube/the internet in general had a better rating system. My son (okay, he’s one and can’t type yet, I digress) doesn’t need to see this, but at a point in his life he should be able to research it for himself (with adequate knowledge being passed to myself, so I can help explain it, or at least have more information available to him) if he so desires.

I don’t like the blatant disregard for knowledge we’re giving it. Ignore it and it’ll go away is just wrong. But I digress again…

I’m with you. You keep caling them out on it, I’ll keep backing you up and raising questions. :-)

I’ll say this, though, you’re absolutely right. Lieberman was right to want these guys off YouTube, Malkin was right to refute them with their videos (as were many others, I’m learning from other commenters), and YouTube/Google is just plain wrong, wrong, wrong on most things when it comes to censorship.

I’ve been riding YouTube/Google really hard since I started seeing a pattern earlier this year, but I tried to ease up in the rhetoric on this one, since when I come down too hard on Google, for some reason I get called a fascist (I have no idea what the connection is, just that it happens).

Google does quality work. They also have a modern day hippie mindset and Paul Bucheit’s “don’t be evil” taped to their company motto. This garners them too much good will.

I hope that more folks will start holding their feet to the fire on this sort of stuff. The Islamic terrorism genre isn’t the only area where they really fail in their duties to uphold free speech and common decency.

I’ll keep calling them out as long as you do, deal?