Ultra-Orthodox 'kosher' Youtube hits Web
source: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4018740,00.html
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Kosher version of Youtube hits Web
Site aimed at ultra-Orthodox sector offers strictly kosher content. 'It's exactly like Youtube, but without pictures of women,' says creator
Despite the sweeping rabbinical ban on the Internet, haredi use of the web is widespread. A new website offers the ultra-orthodox sector an alternative to the inappropriate content out there: Glatube.
The video sharing site is strictly kosher. Rihanna won't make it there, and neither will rapper Subliminal or singer Sarit Hadad.
"It's exactly like Youtube, with one exception: No promiscuity," said Sharon Bokobza, the site's creator and a student at the Breslov yeshiva Shuvu Banim. "Glatube is aimed at those who are becoming religious and want to listen to music, but are not interested in the promiscuity that is found on the Internet."
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Radical_Centrist
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To say a site is EXACTLY like Youtube with the exception of videos of Women is about as silly as saying this Pie is EXACTLY like Southern Pecan Pie without the Pecans or Karo Syrup.
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Radical_Centrist:
its just the same old puritanical shit as always.sacrifice content in favor of what is seen as conservatively appropriate, thus loosing the ability to be both interesting or a progressive element.
who is effecting whom?the zionist jew on the christian world, or the christian world on the jews?
at least we still dont have a network television station dedicated to 24 hr temple services yet, despite doing the most classic of christian social tactics.lol is it jew-tube?
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freecrack
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the big difference that this story seems to not get is the pacivity of it.
unlike various other religious institutions, this one is acting in a manor that serves them not at the expense of the public at large.
unlike christians who demand abortion be illegal for all, not just them.
unlike mulsims who insist on convert or die.
unlike athiests who insist on removal of the word god from everything.
this is a passive move.meaning if you dont like it, just dont watch it.it doesnt usurp or replace anything, unless we the public decide, as a capitalist society, to invest in this more than the alternative.it isnt a great leap in thought really.if you dont like hollywood smut, watch christian movies featuring kirk cameron or stephen baldwin.if you dont like howard stern, you could always change the radio dial.if you dont like kosher tube, just dont watch it.
wich as religious media goes, will most likely be the case.hardly story worthy, unless your a theologist or socialogist.it is no different than any other minority group of people carving out a home on the internet to serve those who share a perspective.
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freecrack
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freecrack:
Well, Christians in general seem to be far more obnoxious than all the religions when it comes to things like sex and culture, but I think it's just because they are more dominant.
Personally I just think it's funny more than anything, however I can't get over the whiff of double standards here, if only for a Westerner's comparative of religions of Judaism and Islam in particular.
Westerners are allowed and even encouraged to point out that Islam is oppressive towards its practitioners, but they are not allowed to acknowledge the same oppressiveness with regards to Judiasm.
Like I said, it doesn't matter to it's just something that I like to point out if only because not too many others here on Current will.
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maasanova:
wow your first paragraph is more hatefull of christianity than the shit i post, wich is a impressive.
you have christianity owning a negativity above all others, as if something exists in them malevolently that doesnt exist in other faiths.kind of like how islamophobics do to islam, just a reversal of roles.is it your premise also that christianity functions in the manor you describe as a result of being dominant, as if to say any religion would function similarly? or that dominance when mixed with the element of christianity results in obnoxious intolerance?i also love how youdont differenciate western culture from global christianity, as if the christians in places where they are the minority are just comping at the bit to be sexualy repressive.what you miss, and there fore think a double standard exists, is the element of pacivity.all religions, especialy the monothiestic abrahamic ones, are repressive in nature.they all show this in the functions of thier congregants.where opposition exists in regards to thier idealogy is where they insist upon all observing it.we dont care when the saudis beat thier woman, we still get in our cars and feed them the money that creates the power they abuse.cuz when push comes to shove that is them, not us so we neednt be concerned.the world has the most horific attrocities happening everyday, and most are related to religion at some level, yet we are confortable ignoring them, as it is them not us.
you dont seem to get how imposition and backlash works.as long as the religious freaks dont effect our lives, no one cares what they do.who the hell even knew what a muslim was, or the fact that millions of them existed in the united states before 9-11? we are a live and let live people (americans) and arent bothered by opposing idealogies.when a people try to impose it upon us we react horribly.but they can keep making all the allu akbar videos they want, or christian kirk cameron anti-evolution movies.cuz we can simply not watch them.the backlash comes from an attempt to oppress.as jews creating a media OPTION it hardly qualifies as oppressive.unlike trying to replace the actual youtube.that would be something else entirely.this is just offering an alternative whilst also allowing the primary to exist unaffected.
the oppressions pointed out in regards to islam are part of the backlash.ya dont think we would go ape shit on jews if annualy a hand full took stab at destroying america? hell you are on a crusade wich supposes they do regardless of what actualy happens anyway.the only double standard here is your acceptance of antisemitism, and condemnation of islamophobia, wich are the same behavior just with different targets.
the attacks on islam for being oppressive are based in the element of forcing it.self imposed oppression in the name of god is just dandy, wich is what conservatives of all religions do.it is the very freedom of religion we champion.the right to self determine ones worship.the islam bashing is based on a series of muslims not respecting that freedom in favor of thier personal worship practices.before any muslim had tried to impose thier faith on any of us, we lived quite happily with islam in the west did we not? it isnt about tolerance of one idealogy and not the other, but those who would oppress us and those who wont.granted islam is erroniously interchanged with radical extremist wich is bullshit.but regardless of the terminology being used, the condemnation is based in refusal to be oppressed, not in idealogical differences.you know this full well as how many of us actualy know the quran in order to have an objection right?
when judaism starts insisting that our freedoms must be sacrificed cuz they say god says so, the same identical shit will be done to us.next time you see some islamophobia, notice the narrative is identical to what progressives complain about in regards to christianity.that is the backlash that is inherent when oppression is attempted, regardless of by whom.
lol no one will point it out cuz it is so beyond insignificant.even on current where chrisianity bashing is sport, who posts stories about christian media projects? when they sday some horrible shit or do a horrible thing sure, but there mere existance is a non-event.it is what relgious people do.
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