By Ian Jobling • 7/10/09
YouTube informed me today that they have disabled my video “Islam: Religion of Injustice” because it violates their community guidelines: “We encourage free speech and defend everyone’s right to express unpopular points of view. But we don’t permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity).” Of course, my video was more of an example of hate facts than hate speech—see the transcript of the text of the video here. YouTube’s action certainly merits an activism campaign, and I’ll put one up soon. For now, I’ve put the Islam video on my Facebook account, but I’ll eventually want to find a better home for it. If you have any thoughts about what the best alternative to YouTube is, please leave a comment on this entry.