Volume, volume volume. I feel for YouTube. Its empire is massive and hard to police. Should it take an anything-goes attitude, the government will step in. On the other hand, over-control incites outrage from the suppressed.
Cast in point. Fabulous video artist Amy Greenfield was kicked off the site for “violating community standards.” Whoa. Protest letter from the National Coalition Against Censorship and the Electronic Frontier Foundation here.
Money quote:
For all of their pronouncements in favor of free speech, Google and other Internet intermediaries are fast becoming the new arbiters of morality – and setting the tone of what is acceptable and what is not. There is no First Amendment to protect our speech in such communities, but that is why it is much more important to get involved and express our outrage when artistic expression using a female body is booted off the site – or put in a special X-rated section – as pornographic and offensive.
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