Posted on 02/27/2006 12:58:28 PM PST by WaterDragon
Edited on 02/27/2006 1:06:36 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Updated Google's video service appears to be blocking US viewers from seeing an innocuous piece of Iraq footage that Google delivers to internet users in the rest of the world without any problems.
The footage shows US military personnel detonating a roadside bomb in a controlled explosion. It's accessible from everywhere except the United States. But US citizens - who bear the human and financial cost of such improvised weapons - are presented with this message:
Alas it's not Google that's doing the censoring - and a big red-faced Oops from The Reg. Google explained last week that uploaders had made the decision not to make the clip available to US internet users.
One Reg reader described the footage as "very boring". We describe some tastier ones here.
Alas it's not Google that's doing the censoring - and a big red-faced Oops from The Reg. Google explained last week that uploaders had made the decision not to make the clip available to US internet users.
Alas it's not Google that's doing the censoring - and a big red-faced Oops from The Reg. Google explained last week that uploaders had made the decision not to make the clip available to US internet users.
Uh, as per the article, Google had nothing to do with it.
It's not Google that's doing it - read the update.
sheesh.
Article says it's not Google but the Reg that's doing this. Why? Sorry, I don't get it.
I always use Google. Was surprised by the headline, but was glad for the clarifying paragraph? But why would anyone want to censor the troops doing something as benign as roadside bomb detonation?
Checked it out. What a non story. Yawn
The Reg is not the one blocking it either. They are just apologizing to Google for saying it was Google.
I would imagine the providers of the video present advertising that would be of no interest to US viewers, so they don't want to spend the money on bandwidth to allow US viewers to view it.
Thank-you, smith288. I guess adding in the title didn't work my attempt at linking.
You forgot the all too important : in your http// (should be http://)
:)
I'll tell you something else Google has censored.
Google has removed all of the unflattering images of Hillderbeast from its Images search engine.
Google has removed all of the unflattering images of Hillderbeast from its Images search engine.
I’m guessing you meant that as a joke. I just input “Hillary” in the Google Image search engine, and the results were hilarious.
That second paragraph wasn't on the site when I posted this. But question: What does it mean..."uploaders" don't choose the material?
You're right! They must have stopped.
But for a while there they were filtering Hillary's images and I had to use Yahoo for my blog photos.
I'm glad you posted.
I loved the first one.
What? You don't want to open a checking account at the First Bank of London?
Google is rapidly supplanting WalMart as favorite whipping boy of anti-capitalist leftist freaks AND 'new world order' paranoids...
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