Fox News has a great story running about YouTube and how Terrorists use the servers to host terror videos and share them with the world.

With the global spread of high-speed Internet connections and the relative anonymity afforded by the world’s biggest and busiest sites, extremists have found a new theater to display violence and anti-American propaganda.

My feelings are very mixed on this issue. I really haven’t decided how I feel about YouTube allowing this kind of tripe, but I think I’ll eventually have to admit that it should not be censored.

Why? Well, first of all, how the heck is YouTube going to stop it anyway? The site is free, and the day we demand that every video published be instantly reviewed or edited by humans is the day it will no longer be free. Besides, right now there is a user powered system that does knock out a lot of these videos. It just takes time.

The gentleman who was being interviewed on the Fox News Video was defending YouTube, which at first kind of bothered me, but the more I thought about it the more I understood his viewpoint. The problem with us wanting YouTube to censor this stuff is knowing how and where to draw the line.

I agree that it’s terrible to see this junk on the web, but at least YouTube allows US the chance to get it taken down.

Thoughts?

Some of you are going to dislike this post, but I just have to let it out. I’m sick and tired of this Anna Nicole Smith story. Fox News… give me my news back. Please?

For the last two days EVERY cable news network has been playing HOUR after HOUR of Anna Nicole Smith headlines. Her death last week was indeed interesting, but only for a few minutes. And it is tragic that her daughter will have to grow up without a mother. The whole thing was very unfortunate, but that’s life. If you think the story is sad, then what about the other people who passed away in that time period? Families lost children and parents due to drunk driving, murder, accidents, etc. It happens virtually every minute of every day. So why is this story so important? Continue Reading