Thread: Thanks religions, you ruined Youtube!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ho8tunttg"]Youtube starts banning 'religiously offensive' videos - YouTube[/ame]

If this is how Youtube will now be operating this is another victory against freedom by religion. Here's a thought, if the vid offends you, stop watching it!

Originally Posted by Panzerkampfwagen

Youtube starts banning 'religiously offensive' videos - YouTube

If this is how Youtube will now be operating this is another victory against freedom by religion. Here's a thought, if the vid offends you, stop watching it!

Referring to your thread title: why "religions"? So you think some Saudi Wahabis are representative for the stance that religious people all over the world ranging from the Dalai Lama to the Archbishop of Canterbury take on free speech?

Referring to the video you posted: why would anybody want to upload youtube videos in which he burns Koran-copys? That may be covered by the right for free speech, but it also exposes that guy as an utter tosser. Obviously he is simply an islamophobic (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) under the guise of atheism.

Not that youtube is bound by any right for free speech anyway. It's a commercial enterprise that can do whatever it deems necessary to do good business. I don't like that, but to change it you'd have to overthrow capitalism. Not sure whether the average islamophobe is up for that kind of revolution.

If you go through a lot of atheist vids on Youtube you'll find that Christians have filed many false DMCAs against them.

Originally Posted by Panzerkampfwagen

If you go through a lot of atheist vids on Youtube you'll find that Christians have filed many false DMCAs against them.

Specify: what kind of Christian might that be?

Originally Posted by junobet

Specify: what kind of Christian might that be?

Crazy ones.

Originally Posted by Panzerkampfwagen

Crazy ones.

Exactly! So it's not Christians per se, but just the ones that both you and me would probably regard as crazy. Just as it is not all Muslims, but only those that you, me and very very many Muslims would regard as crazy.

So maybe in the interest of humanistic intellectual integrity and the freedom of religion (which includes the freedom of disbelief) you should try and differentiate instead of depicting all of religion as the bogeyman.

Originally Posted by junobet

Exactly! So it's not Christians per se, but just the ones that both you and me would probably regard as crazy. Just as it is not all Muslims, but only those that you, me and very very many Muslims would regard as crazy.

So maybe in the interest of humanistic intellectual integrity and the freedom of religion (which includes the freedom of disbelief) you should try and differentiate instead of depicting all of religion as the bogeyman.

No, because it's their religious beliefs that give them their beliefs. Just because some of you have now moved on and ignore most of your religion doesn't absolve their religion of blame.

Prove to those islamist pigs that we are free and burn more Korans until they finally learn to accept it for what it is and stop with their bloody rioting.

Originally Posted by Panzerkampfwagen

No, because it's their religious beliefs that give them their beliefs. Just because some of you have now moved on and ignore most of your religion doesn't absolve their religion of blame.

Jesus, Panzerwels! People like me don't ignore most of their religion only because dickheads like Dawkins seem to think that you have to be a young-earth-creationist to qualify as a 'proper' Christian. Educate yourself on a subject if you don't want to come across as a fanatic who's lost his marbles.

Originally Posted by Slyhunter

Prove to those islamist pigs that we are free and burn more Korans until they finally learn to accept it for what it is and stop with their bloody rioting.

Here we go: the good old American virtue of religious tolerance in full action!