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May-18-2011 13:00
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YouTube closes Salem-News.com Video Account
Tim King Salem-News.comYouTube has no respect for the agencies that make it what it is. We're taking our business to Vimeo.
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(SALEM, Ore.) - It doesn't matter that we carry extremely popular videos that help Veterans manage Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), or that we reveal clergy sex abuse, or rampant racism in state government, or the contamination of a closed down cancer-causing Marine Corps base in California where up to a million people served and lived.
None of that matters. What does matter to the folks at YouTube, is that somebody with a YouTube account made a false claim about copyright infringement, and it was used as an excuse by YouTube to shut down our entire account. It wasn't just that the video in question (published in 2009!) was removed, all 500+ Salem-News.com videos now fail to play and show a demeaning and debasing message about our business practices that is entirely untrue.
I have plenty to say about this and I am not the only one. YouTube is guilty of unfair and biased business practices and I don't care how you shake it down. They are downright anti-American in their spirit because our videos help U.S. veterans; particularly the in-depth discussions with our resident PTSD expert, Dr. Phil Leveque.
I am starting to wonder if a class action lawsuit is the answer, I suppose if people in a similar spot agree, they may contact me at the email below.
- Distinguished author and Islamic scholar, Dr. Jay R. Crook
We wondered exactly which day YouTube would close our video account containing more than 500 uploads dating back to 2006. Today was the day. Reports of YouTube's discrimination of video news content have been in the news lately. It looks like our business is a victim of politics and with so many reports now missing from stories.
The video we posted last night; Agron Belica's new song 'Sermon From the Throne' casts doubts on the story of John the Baptist's beheading, through Qur'anic research.
We knew the video and story would start sparks, but we didn't expect a full implosion.
Distinguished author and Islamic scholar, Dr. Jay R. Crook, is included in the interview that accompanies the video release.
In regard to our YouTube account closure, he said:
"I heard a discussion about the activities and manipulation of Google and Youtube on NPR yesterday. When Agron informed me of the your problems with them this morning, I told him that I suspected your defense of oppressed peoples everywhere—including, and perhaps chiefly, the Palestinians—has caught their attention and excited the wrath of vested interests. The promise of the free Internet is being compromised by powerful special interests as were TV, radio, and the press. Big Brother is not dead; just morphing into other guises."
The thing is, YouTube has no checks and balances. Anyone can flag a user's account and get them into trouble.
If you look at the screen that now shows up when people try to watch one of our YouTube videos, you see
"This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement from claimants including: (UNHCR), (Michael Heart Music)"
Michael Heart wrote the song: We will not go down (in Gaza Tonight) and I used that in the context of a video report on Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli attack on the civilian population of Gaza that left more than 1400 people dead and thousands grievously injured. I wrote to Michael Heart and attained permission to use his song.
Since that time I have been in contact with Michael Heart via email and our writer Kourosh Ziabari interviewed Michael from Tehran in: We Will Not Go Down, in Gaza Tonight - Kourosh Ziabari Salem-News.com.
So while I am 99% certain that Michael Heart did not actually flag us, I look at the other alleged source of complaint and I see the United Nations Human Rights Council? I can't be alone in finding this astonishing. We laud and constantly refer to the UN Human Rights Council. We make reference to the UN' Declaration of Human Rights almost every day. The UN Human Rights Council is one of the only agencies that has honestly evaluated Israeli war crime allegations.
Even if there were legitimacy in this, it fails to pass the test because the video they flagged some time ago, was comprised of UN media pool video we are fully entitled to use, and other clips that I recorded myself in Afghanistan when I was embedded with the U.S. Army as a reporter.
But the worst thing of all, is the fact that our videos expose racism in the Oregon prison system, they reveal big problems and their existence has changed matters for people in the past. YouTube could care less.
So here is the lesson for the day: if any person with a YouTube account 'flags' one of our videos and writes: "copyright violation" a certain number of times, we are done. This is because YouTube doesn't research the complaints. The group just allows other users to manipulate the accounts of those they disagree with. There is no system of protection quite obviously, and also no special status allowed for those of us who had hundreds of videos with millions and millions of views, collectively.
So for now we are weighing our options.
Just yesterday, we were contacted by a party in New York that made a PayPal donation to Salem-News.com, who wrote:
"I don't know how you keep Salem-News from being silenced, but you can feel proud that you do! I only wish that such papers as The NY Times, Wall St Journal, Washington Post, etc... were YOUR subsidiaries and made to follow your editorial policies!"
Needless to say, we will resolve this matter. We have already identified Vimeo as a good source for video posting. Also in the future we hope we carry video on our own server.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and we will resolve this matter. It is obvious that YouTube doesn't intend to let us go on. We are honest about Israel's war crimes and we always will be.
Apr-18-2011: Harassment by The YouTube Team -- An open message to Sergey Brin - By Anthony Lawson and Tim King Salem-News.com
Jan-15-2009: YouTube Pulls Salem-News.com Video Showing Dead Terrorist in Iraq - Tim King Salem-News.com
_________________________________________________________Tim King: Salem-News.com Editor and Writer
Tim King is a former U.S. Marine with twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. In addition to his role as a war correspondent, this Los Angeles native serves as Salem-News.com's Executive News Editor. Tim spent the winter of 2006/07 covering the war in Afghanistan, and he was in Iraq over the summer of 2008, reporting from the war while embedded with both the U.S. Army and the Marines.
Tim holds awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing, including the Silver Spoke Award by the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (2011), Excellence in Journalism Award by the Oregon Confederation of Motorcycle Clubs (2010), Oregon AP Award for Spot News Photographer of the Year (2004), First-place Electronic Media Award in Spot News, Las Vegas, (1998), Oregon AP Cooperation Award (1991); and several others including the 2005 Red Cross Good Neighborhood Award for reporting. Tim has several years of experience in network affiliate news TV stations, having worked as a reporter and photographer at NBC, ABC and FOX stations in Arizona, Nevada and Oregon. Tim was a member of the National Press Photographer's Association for several years and is a current member of the Orange County Press Club.
Serving the community in very real terms, Salem-News.com is the nation's only truly independent high traffic news Website. As News Editor, Tim among other things, is responsible for publishing the original content of 82 Salem-News.com writers. He reminds viewers that emails are easily missed and urges those trying to reach him, to please send a second email if the first goes unanswered. You can write to Tim at this address: newsroom@salem-news.com
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gp May 18, 2011 6:32 pm (Pacific time)
Vimeo is good,they carry Arnie Gunderson's discussions of the meltdowns at Fukushima and they Japanese govt and the US and French as well as the nuclear industry have been doing a damn good job of keeping most of the information about the horrid accident below the radar.
ghahhahah May 18, 2011 4:09 pm (Pacific time)
f*ck youtube!
Bardyl Polozani May 18, 2011 3:11 pm (Pacific time)
I think its time that we take a look at the state of our minds and say to our selves, we have been fed nonsense for so long that truth is truth. It's like a nice glass of water, clean, pure, refreshing, compared to a beer, full of intoxicants, corruption, not clear but filthy. The point is that it is what it is. The texts are clear, like it or not. Mr. Belica has been relentless in his pursuit to tell it like it is. The world itself is in such a poisoned mental state that even if the prophet Christ Jesus was to appear himself and announce to the world that he was not crucified as the world has been taught, the people still would not believe, even if they see it with their own eyes. We must seek refuge with the 1 lord of mankind and pray not to be absorbed by the many blind followers of foolishness. When a people believe in anything they hear and don't consider facts, its those people you wanna run from, run fast as you can. Mr. Belica is not trying to hurt you but merely opening your minds to see things clearly, like that glass of water. Peace
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