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Government Orders You Tube To Censor Protest Videos

source: http://theintelhub.com/2011/05/20/government-orders-you-tube-to-censor-protest-videos/

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In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the free Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of requests from governments to censor and remove videos that show protests and other examples of citizens simply asserting their rights, while also deleting search terms by government mandate.

The latest example is You Tube’s compliance with a request from the British government to censor footage of the British Constitution Group’s Lawful Rebellion protest, during which they attempted to civilly arrest Judge Michael Peake at Birkenhead county court.

Peake was ruling on a case involving Roger Hayes, former member of UKIP, who has refused to pay council tax, both as a protest against the government’s treasonous activities in sacrificing Britain to globalist interests and as a result of Hayes clearly proving that council tax is illegal.

Hayes has embarked on an effort to legally prove that the enforced collection of council tax by government is unlawful because no contract has been agreed between the individual and the state. His argument is based on the sound legal principle that just like the council, Hayes can represent himself as a third party in court and that “Roger Hayes” is a corporation and must be treated as one in the eyes of the law.

The British government doesn’t want this kind of information going viral in the public domain because it is scared stiff of a repeat of the infamous poll tax riots of 1990, a massive tax revolt in the UK that forced the Thatcher government to scrap the poll tax altogether because of mass civil disobedience and refusal to pay.

When viewers in the UK attempt to watch videos of the protest, they are met with the message, “This content is not available in your country due to a government removal request.”

We then click through to learn that, “YouTube occasionally receives requests from governments around the world to remove content from our site, and as a result, YouTube may block specific content in order to comply with local laws in certain countries.”

You can also search by country to discover that Google, the owner of You Tube, has complied with the majority of requests from governments, particularly in the United States and the UK, not only to remove You Tube videos, but also specific web search terms and thousands of “data requests,” meaning demands for information that would reveal the true identity of a You Tube user. Google claims that the information sent to governments is “needed for legitimate criminal investigations,” but whether these “data requests” have been backed up by warrants is not divulged by the company.

“Between July 1 and Dec. 31 (2009), Google received 3,580 requests for user data from U.S. government agencies........

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101 comments // Government Orders You Tube To Censor Protest Videos

  • Doug_Laurie
  • Alexandre_Breysse
  • Glentrs
  • Alexandre_Breysse
  • antuan11
    • 0
      antuan11  

    • Hey Current how about stating the country in the headline? You know this will some how come to say Obama is censoring the internet if you do not do so.

    • 1 year ago
  • Tom_Yaxley
  • Philip_Moreaux_Windsor
    • +1
      Philip_Moreaux_Windsor  

    • I agree direct democracy, for nations such as Switzerland where it works well due to a REAL literacy rate of 99% unlike the US' legal reading comprehension age level to be only that of a 12-13 year old in order to regard them as literate. How does one expect the MAJORITY of Americans, when even college educated people have NO idea how their local JUDGES GET THEIR JOBS? I'm a royalist anyway and only for these very reasons. It's not the Queen who orders BBC to censor videos... Rather, the chosen party leader acting as Prime Minister. ABSOLUTE DESPOTIC RULE seems to have left a LASTING impression in at least the form of pyramids/arts...

    • 1 year ago
  • TommyJacketseed
  • Nevi
  • Leslie_Fletcher
    • +1
      Leslie_Fletcher  

    • Since when does YouTube bow to any official orders from any government?? Besides this is a free speech issue. Step Off the neck of the people. I am done with you/tube.

    • 1 year ago
  • AltruistSpark
    • +1
      AltruistSpark  
    • Image

    • Time for Direct Democracy! If politicians must be in charge of the executive power, the people shall be in charge of the legislative power. Otherwise we will continue to allow politicians to abuse their powers as described above and on Wall Street.

      Visit www.i-govern.org/home to participate in defining, designing, building, promoting, and implementing an online platform for Direct Democracy!

      We, the People, shall no longer transfer our decision making powers into the hands of political representatives.

      We, the People, shall have the right to represent ourselves and responsibly participate in shaping the future of our nations through direct democracy.

    • 1 year ago
  • Keith_Coppock
  • Benjamin_Coyne
  • Corey_Rollins
    • +1
      Corey_Rollins  

    • fuck the gov. for not allowing us to put protest videos on youtube they only banned it because of their reputation and they don't want to look bad.

    • 1 year ago
  • Mary_K_Weinhagen
  • JML
    • -2
      JML  

    • One other point...

      The Videos that You Tube Removed were of Court Proceedings.

      Videotaping Court Proceedings in the UK is Illegal.

      And British Constitution Group is only slightly less crazy than a Maoist Irish Terrorist.

    • 1 year ago
  • David_Tesch
  • Eirik
    • -1
      Eirik  

    • one thing I would like to point out is that by the purchasing, ownership of a mortgage on the property, technical is a contract to pay council tax to your local council. as well as this there is no where in the "constitution" that states that a judge is liable for his judgements ... so technically the civil arrest was unlawful.

    • 1 year ago
  • JML
    • -6
      JML  

    • I'm of the Sound Democratic Opinion that if you do not agree with the Rules of Law for the Country you live in...Move and Surrender your Passport after you apply to become a citizen/subject somewhere else that is willing to put up with your beliefs.

      The Jagoff hasn't paid his Property Taxes for 3 years...and the issue is moot.

      The Judge should just levy a charge of "Tax evasion" and take it to the Criminal Charge level and exit the Civil area.

      As for the DA-05 notice....Waaaa!!!!! F'in whiners!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • Dwight_K_Schrute
    • +3
      Dwight_K_Schrute  
    • JML:

      Seriously? You are an idiot. Regardless of how you view this case, the cornerstone of democracy is the right of the people to question and change laws, not just blindly follow them. I think you might be looking for Nazi Germany if that's the system you want to embrace.

    • 1 year ago
  • JML
    • -4
      JML  
    • Dwight_K_Schrute:

      Devolving to Godwins Law so quick? Wow...what a scintillating conversationalist you are Dwight K Schrute. Such an original name as well. I view the case Simply.

      It is Illegal to evade taxes
      It is Illegal to attempt to "civilly arrest" a Judge for "Treason/Contempt of Court" if you are not with a Law Enforcement agency.
      It is Illegal to Disrupt Court Proceedings even if you disagree with the proceedings...like
      what British Constitution Group attempted to do.

      There are Legal things that Hayes can do. But he violated British law when he and his "group" did the above.

      And UKIP is a joke....they complain that the UK government isn't spending enough money on the Right things...but then they object to paying Property Taxes?

      Hypocrites..

      And FYI Dwight...if I lived in Germany in the 30's...I'd have a number on my arm....asshole.

    • 1 year ago
  • MaybeBoo
    • +1
      MaybeBoo  
    • JML:

      So democratic opinion = shut up or leave?

      In fact, you have to pay rent to live on your own property in the UK, you cannot live a self sufficient life outside ' the system'. You have to join it to earn money to contribute to a system you may feel is a warmongering, amoral sad puppy that you wish to have nothing to do with, your sound democracy feels that 'belief' is treason and one who holds it should be bannished from the country of their birth?
      Surely you are then advocating slavery.

    • 1 year ago
  • JML
    • -1
      JML  
    • MaybeBoo:

      The majority of Democratic/Republic Countries on this planet have governments that have a property tax system of some sort to raise revenue to help provide for municipal services ...mainly supporting local education, police/fire protection, local governments, some free medical services, and most of other local infrastructures.

      Can you suggest a better way to raise Revenue to support education, police/fire protection, local governments, some free medical services, and most of other local infrastructures?

      Besides Communism...

    • 1 year ago
  • MaybeBoo
    • +2
      MaybeBoo  
    • JML:

      There are taxes on income - that pays for what ? Social insurance - what's that for then? Taxes on cigarettes, alcohol, goods, business, cars, tickets, fuel, prescriptions, property transfers, death, ad nauseum. They are not enough why? Because we need to house our defense force on foreign soil and pay fortunes to bomb civilians in the guise of compassion and humanitarian ism? Or is it because there needs to be enough in the kitty for everyone to be on the make with?
      In some countries (where they collect the rubbish 3 times a week not once - they charge a yearly fee - much less than £100) you are allowed to live in your own property for free! You pay for what you might use, not just pay for the privilege of being. In some countries, the less power you use, the cheaper it is, unlike here, where the poorest have a higher rate for a key to run out of!
      Communism becomes totalitarianism in exactly the same way as capitalism, so no, but common sensalism might be worth a try.
      What is certainly not ok - is the gang bang of corruption, greed, misery making and war mongering that hides under the guise of righteousness and logic, practically worldwide, when the FACTS on most subjects turn out to be very different to the presented propaganda.
      Censorship is not ok - neither is unconsentual or kiddie porn
      Prohibition doesn't work and is a hypocrisy in action.
      I think most people want peace, fairness and equality. They are manipulated into supporting horror by being convinced that it is not horror, it is liberation from oppression or some other noble or necessary action. Fear and misinformation makes for bad decisions.
      Rant over :)

      Peace.

    • 1 year ago
  • Sarah_Prestly
  • Craig_Thomson
    • +4
      Craig_Thomson  

    • the world is too connected today this type of information will get out its like a ship with lots of holes you plug one up and another leak springs out.

      They don't have enough money or resources anymore to plug them all up and I hope they go bankrupt trying.

      Meanwhile i urge people to setup there own sites like in5d with alternative news coverage let's start writing our own news and do our own censorship by no longer watching the mainstream news lets do what you would do to any lair ignore them and isolate them. If enough ignore it the TV rating's fail and they go out of business.

    • 1 year ago
  • DawnieT
    • 0
      DawnieT  

    • Whilst I don't disagree that this is happeneing and i bet we aren't seeing anything on the mainstream media about the protest at all. I have quite politically minded friends who didn't know about it when I spoke to them on Tuesday for example....I have not come up against one of these warnings on YouTube yet,,,,and i have seen and shared loads of stuff about the protest (I live in the UK)

    • 1 year ago
  • TimCat
  • AJILIVIZION
  • andrieliane
    • +4
      andrieliane  

    • freaking bullshit... what are they scared of...that simpletons will grow a brain an realize its fucked up. that alil expostion will kill em... durn vampire like egg heads.

    • 1 year ago
  • cw52
  • Schnookums
    • +6
      Schnookums  
    • cw52:

      Indeed. But I think what is most telling about this article is that Google usually complies with information requests for user identities and now has a history of censoring protest footage from time to time when a government requests it.

      That most make it through and are never subject to requests or censorship isn't the point, it's that as the protests spread and exponentially grow you're identity as a filmer, protester, participant, supporter, or poster may easily become part of the investigation when the protest subject is deemed a 'national security' issue.

      The potential for this to become truly frightening is only one incident away......

    • 1 year ago
  • jackshin
    • +3
      jackshin  
    • Schnookums:

      Yep, very true, and that is not just the government, that can be anyone who has a legal complaint.

      " Although today the vast majority of those subpoenas are from law enforcement agencies, an increasing number are from civil litigants trying to dig up information about their adversaries "

      http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2006/02/subpoenas-and-your-privacy

      The above article discusses all the information about you being stored by Google, Yahoo, AOL and other Internet intermediaries. Google, for example, has confirmed that if given an IP address, it can produce a list of every Google search query ever sent from it.

    • 1 year ago
  • noxidereus
    • +4
      noxidereus  

    • A portion of V's televised speech from V for Vendetta:

      "There are, of course, those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now orders are being shouted into telephones and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?"

    • 1 year ago
  • noxidereus
    • +2
      noxidereus  

    • The biggest threat to those who benefit from such a system that relies on propaganda, lies, and shadow is knowledge (truth). This is why there were book burnings in the past, as well as intimidation and murder of intellectuals. Today's biggest threat to the systems the elite use to subjugate and feast off of the rest of us is of course, the Internet. This is why we should expect the Internet to come under attack even here in our "free" USA.

    • 1 year ago
  • danitassin
    • +2
      danitassin  

    • Yeah Censor reality. Just like our spoon fed news to make the rich more rich and the poor more poor. Everything we hear in msm and from the ap, is to steer us to buy a certain thing or to not buy from this company. "oh no, they won't buy our crap, hurry, turn it off, turn it off!"

      The American dream!

    • 1 year ago
  • HiImGuss
    • +3
      HiImGuss  

    • I always thought that Google and YouTube were somewhat progressive companies. If anything, they should be putting these videos on their front page instead of censoring them! What's going on, YouTube?

    • 1 year ago
  • DanCastro
    • +4
      DanCastro  
    • HiImGuss:

      So when google contributed to the right, must have been a "shock" to the system? These are business first and social media decidedly second. The question I would like to see answered is whether we can put into place regulations that would require "free speech" on the web?

    • 1 year ago
  • CalgarC
  • Schnookums
  • CalgarC
  • wolfess
    • +1
      wolfess  
    • CalgarC:

      I just tried downloading it and it said it was unavailable -- I guess lots of people are trying to download it. Thanks for the info :-) -- sooner or later I will get it!

    • 1 year ago
  • CalgarC
    • +4
      CalgarC  

    • a youtube post isn't gonna stop us from protesting haha. it might throw a few people off, but will not stop the protest.

    • 1 year ago
  • squarethecircle
  • CalgarC
    • +3
      CalgarC  

    • that won't stop us... i just filmed a few hours of footage yesterday at the tar sands protest in Ottawa, and you think the tube is our only source... when ever a video is removed 10 new copies come on, it ends up on 10 new sites using 10 different mediums to view the video...

    • 1 year ago
  • jackshin
    • +2
      jackshin  
    • CalgarC:

      awesome, but then again who will be watching, who is to prevent the U.S. gov from stopping Yahoo or Google from filtering out search terms. The fight is now.

    • 1 year ago
  • CalgarC
    • +2
      CalgarC  
    • jackshin:

      they can filter out and block search terms from certain ip address only. so it makes perfect sense for me to use free wifi from local shops. also well might have to start using code names haha, for instance use tags like "video game" when we really mean wallstreet protest

    • 1 year ago
  • jackshin
  • mitekillem
    • +3
      mitekillem  

    • If Corporations are people, does that mean that people can now be corporations???
      Does that mean we can get the corporate tax breaks?

    • 1 year ago
  • lazloman
  • tverdell
  • _doja_
    • +1
      _doja_  

    • this is ridiculous..... this is why we need to act now rather than later...... because if we dont pretty soon the whole internet will be shut down..... and any other means of communication that could destroy the regime

    • 1 year ago
  • Incredulous
    • +1
      Incredulous  

    • --and Obama has the audacity to believe that people are going to support him in the next election....tough choice, do I vote for the guy who will sell me out to the highest bidder, or for the guy who will pretend he is on my side, and still sell me out to the highest bidder?

      strange way of defining the "Audacity of Hope"

    • 1 year ago
  • SIBob
    • 0
      SIBob  
    • Image

    • There will probably come a time when many of us will be “outed”. I can see it coming, so what. I have noticed “whois” requests about my website too. I’ll bet Representative Michael Grimm and Mayor Bloomberg, (two of my favorite “subjects”), know who I am already. (The can both tap into the Homeland Security apparatus any time they wish). Remember, we can always go back to old-fashioned methods of spreading the word, if we have to. If they try an outright takeover of the internet, there will definitely be a mass rebellion, particularly from our younger citizens, who have grown up with it.
      Pushback begets pushback and violence begets violence, (but let’s hope it doesn’t get to that). One thing is for sure, if some political solution does not manifest itself, this frustration will air itself in another way.
      http://sibob.org/wordpress/

    • 1 year ago
  • Joeydee44
    • +1
      Joeydee44  

    • Like so many others before it, YouTube sounds like it has become infected by the Body Snatchers. Does anyone think this could really stem the flow of information? This is a new age of instant communication and if one company tries to control it, it will be trampled. Bring on the next YouTube.

    • 1 year ago
  • GENERALNATTY
    • +1
      GENERALNATTY  
    • Joeydee44:

      consider anything owned by google infected, just like julian assange was saying.
      some is information made purposely unavailable on google searches as well in most cases it is blocking its competitors but it could just as easily be applied to this type of info.

    • 1 year ago
  • chew_chew
    • +1
      chew_chew  

    • I am for showing and seeing the truth.

      During the - still ongoing - BP Gulf oil fiasco, I realized (though, I suppose it could have been going on for awhile) that google was willing to sell the truth to the highest bidder, when they took money from BP to mask - using tactics as mentioned in this article - many of the horrible things happening to residents of the Gulf.

      To see youtube doing this at a government's request, doesn't mean the truth will be successfully hidden, but perhaps a little more difficult to seek out. Truth is leaking out all across the dam, and this is just one finger stuck in one of the many - and growing number of, and welcome, from my perspective - leaks.

    • 1 year ago
  • warman1138
  • Andover
  • Changes2Pac
    • -1
      Changes2Pac  
    • Andover:

      Sad to say but many Americas see these media social sites as if they were some type of god. People are so disconnected with what's going on in their county and in the world that their sole purpose is to check in every ten minutes or having thousands of online friends.

    • 1 year ago
  • jackshin
    • +1
      jackshin  
    • Andover:

      not to mention if Google gives in to Big Gov. What hope does any small time video portal have to challenge a Gov. cease and desist court order. And Gov can also shut down any of the isp's. The simple fact utube, unless another corporate structure with clout takes the helm, is a legitmate news service, to censor utube is a violation of freedom of the press.
      By the way I didn't see the U.S. gov censor the riots video's in the Middle East.

    • 1 year ago
  • letsliveinpeace
  • letsliveinpeace
  • CalgarC
  • letsliveinpeace
    • +3
      letsliveinpeace  

    • When the Government is in control of media, we will be in the control of a totalitarian regime. Are we becoming the Soviet Union and communist China? I thought I lived in the USA. Is there or is there not a Right To Free Speech? I seem to recall something about that in something, I think it's called the constitution.

    • 1 year ago
  • EmperorThan
    • +4
      EmperorThan  

    • There's a reason we in the United States got it down in writing to have freedom of press, freedom of speech, and freedom of expression (upheld by Supreme Court as freedom of speech) in our founding documents separating us from Great Britain.

      As the FIRST stipulation of our country's Bill of Rights no less. I feel bad for the people in the UK but there's a method to our madness in the US.

      That's some straight Mubarak shit right there.

    • 1 year ago
  • xena
    • +1
      xena  

    • Well, it is not our government (as far as we know--yet). Don't know why, but I expected better of the UK.

    • 1 year ago
  • letsliveinpeace
  • xena
    • 0
      xena  
    • letsliveinpeace:

      Maybe, but I don't think we're there yet. Certainly there would be an outcry as there was recently when Yahoo filtered emails re: Wall Street protests. But this bears watching. Obviously, we must be ever vigilant. I remark thus, because when I first saw the headline, I thought it was specifically calling out US government and I didn't read that in this piece.

    • 1 year ago
  • Changes2Pac
    • +3
      Changes2Pac  

    • Again showing us that we are not free, far from it. This shit has to stop, we only have one life to live. Everyone has to realize it is time to wake up and know what's going on in one's life if not you are truly not living at all.

    • 1 year ago
  • Vierotchka
  • letsliveinpeace
  • Agent_Alpha
  • Craig_Thomson
  • Progresshiv
  • letsliveinpeace
  • Progresshiv
  • GENERALNATTY
  • CalgarC
  • Progresshiv
  • CalgarC
  • ecoalex
    • +3
      ecoalex  

    • This is in the UK,not the US.With Google joining the extreme right,it will happen in the US soon I would think.Google partnered with Fox for the GOP debate,and has now had disclosed it has donated to many extreme right wing groups like the Heritage institute,and others.Google owns utube.Google has gone to the dark side.

    • 1 year ago
  • Itsbatman_Durr
    • +5
      Itsbatman_Durr  

    • this is why we are spreading out so many redundancies! our youtube is still up, and ProjectHug.us is streaming live from the protests and linking up all the social networking sites for others please keep up the attention! we need eyes! we are all in this together! the media isnt serving the public so we the public are serving ourselves.. but we need your help!

    • 1 year ago
  • ozzone
    • +4
      ozzone  

    • Well I stopped using Google when they put that stupid black bar at the top of their web page and started using Yahoo. IF they start hindering the free flow of the PEOPLES information, and for all intent and purposes it is the digital ages ‘FREE PRESS’, then I think some other company should step up to the plate and take over if Google fails to follow the path of the ‘FREE PRESS’ in the good old USofA.

    • 1 year ago
  • TanzaniteDiamonds
  • Novek
    • +4
      Novek  

    • what. the. fk. google... seriously? at least pretend like you give a shi* about free speech, don't do crap till you get a court order!

    • 1 year ago
  • Dagum
    • +7
      Dagum  

    • holy...shit... didn't think the government would be that bold. Now we know what they are really afraid of. Keep protesting this is where they are weakest!

    • 1 year ago
  • artemis6
    • +2
      artemis6  
    • Dagum:

      They are indeed , growing fearful of the people . In honor of the good people of Britain , i shall watch V for vendetta instead of using Google or Utube , on the 5th of November . Actually , I may do it sooner in protest .....

    • 1 year ago
  • CalgarC
  • Anonmaly
    • +8
      Anonmaly  

    • It's okay.... If they want to enslave the people, while letting corporations control the government... They will find the rebellion will spread, their systems will be hacked, pertinent information will be disseminated, and thick pockets of resistance exist and will grow throughout the country...

      Really and people were wondering why people started buying guns in record numbers after the last election, because we won't be bound to Wall-Street shit, and debts incurred by an inept, corrupt, government.

      (You know theoretically, potential is their at a higher probability than other times in history, that kind of thing...)

      I'm only disappointed more people didn't see it headed this way years ago, and more adequately prepare for a system that was designed to enslave you with codependency on psychopaths...

    • 1 year ago
  • Schnookums
    • +7
      Schnookums  
    • Anonmaly:

      “If you shut up the truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”
      -Emile Zola

    • 1 year ago
  • nikonwilly
  • KB723
  • Leen61
  • hombre76
    • +7
      hombre76  

    • Wellcome to the United Snake
      Land of theif, Home of the slave
      with a grand Imperial Guard
      where the Dollar is sacred
      and Power is god.

    • 1 year ago
  • Anonmaly
  • hombre76
  • Toughth
    • +5
      Toughth  

    • The communications underground will be born out of this nonsense. As a people we can outfox the NSA, CIA, FBI and all who want control over freedom even though they are sworn to protect the peoples rights.

    • 1 year ago
  • David_H
  • wolfess
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