Along with Obama's partial-birth abortion video, YouTube is banning videos posted by UCLA Law Student James O’Keefe. For seven months, videos produced by O'Keefe, broadcasting legal audios of phone calls made to several Planned Parenthood clinics across the country, with their assurance that his money would be used for the abortions of black babies, were online, according to columnist Hannah Giles.
"But on the night of Barack Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, these embarrassing video clips were taken down from YouTube," write Giles.
In addition, Google has sold Barack Obama the rights to key search phrases that normally would bring up negative information, such as "Obama" along with the words "flag pin," "muslim" or "birth certificate," according to
http://powinca.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-censors-google-with-campaign.html.
So for Google and their subsidiary, YouTube, censorship for Obama cuts both ways. They will censor on his behalf and they will allow him to censor indiscriminately. That's quite a campaign contribution... or a conspiracy.
YouTube Censorship: Another Chinese Import?
As more organizations try to shine light on Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) abortion record in Illinois, his campaign has possibly found an ally in YouTube. The video clearinghouse, which has become one of the Internet's biggest sensations, blocked a pro-life post from the Kansas Coalition for Life that detailed Obama's unconditional support of abortion--including partial-birth abortion. As an explanation, the Coalition received only a simple message from YouTube stating that the video violated its "community guideline[s]." Although other posts contained similar footage of abortion procedures, they were not removed-presumably because they made no mention of Obama.
Google, YouTube's parent company, is no stranger to censoring pro-life message. As we mentioned last week, a Christian group just took the online superpower to court for refusing to let a British organization buy ad space to promote life. Unfortunately, this is hardly the first time YouTube has engaged in political censorship. Lila Rose, the UCLA student who taped Planned Parenthood's willingness to earmark donations for black babies, has also been blocked from posting videos that would incriminate the nation's largest abortion merchant.
Hoping to defray his opposition to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, Obama's campaign released a new ad saying his votes on the issue "were taken out of context" and people suggesting otherwise were guilty of "despicable lie[s]." Yet even the Associated Press corroborates pro-lifers' claims, writing, "As an Illinois state senator, Obama opposed three legislative efforts in 2001, 2002, and 2003 to give legal protections to any aborted fetus that showed signs of life."
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