Google rejects White House request to pull Mohammad film clip

From what I can gather, the White House didn't explicitly ask for the clip to be removed. Rather, they suggested the clip might violate YouTube's own terms of service.

From the article:

> White House officials had asked Google earlier on Friday to reconsider whether the video had violated YouTube's terms of service

Still, the net effect is the same. The gesture was made with the goal of having the video removed from YouTube. It's unfortunate that our administration went down this path at all.

Re: Google rejects White House request to pull Mohammad film clip

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Post by wtracy » Fri, Sep 14, 2012, 11:45 PM UTC

gfodor wrote: post #5

What a joke. Obama et al just lost a lot of my respect.

Yeah.

If Romney had made his little spiel about "not apologizing for American values" after this development had been made public, I would have agreed with it.

Re: Google rejects White House request to pull Mohammad film clip

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Post by grandalf » Fri, Sep 14, 2012, 11:45 PM UTC

gfodor wrote: post #5

What a joke. Obama et al just lost a lot of my respect.

He already had lost all of mine due to the drone strikes, rendition, and other atrocities, ... but this certainly doesn't help.

Re: Google rejects White House request to pull Mohammad film clip

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Post by spindritf » Fri, Sep 14, 2012, 11:46 PM UTC

naeem wrote: post #4

Why is the White House even making that request? At which point does religious appeasement start to become institutionalized through fear?

It's not religious appeasement, you don't see them appeasing Buddhists or even Christians.