I went back to look at the video. That message may have been there before, but I didn’t notice it (can’t see as well as I used to...lol). I just thought it was gone because it took me to the main page. It says you have to be on the person’s friend list, which probably includes plenty terrorist supporters.
> I went back to look at the video. That message may have been there before, but I didn’t notice it (can’t see as well as I used to...lol). I just thought it was gone because it took me to the main page. It says you have to be on the person’s friend list, which probably includes plenty terrorist supporters.
Hmmmm... this is an interesting development. Let’s think this thru strategically. Is it a good thing, or a bad thing?
Instinctively, I think it is a HILLARIOUS development: what we’ve achieved, effectively, is that we are now forcing this particular terrorist to keep and maintain a list of “friends” that get to see his filthy video.
One implication of this is, presumably, if you aren’t on that list you don’t get to see it. So, instead of having an audience of roughly 2 billion (the entire Internet) he has a very limited audience of only his friends and supporters.
From a marketing and advertizing perspective, how useful is that? It kind of defeats the whole purpose of Propaganda, doesn’t it — to only be able to play it to yourself and your own friends? It’s like taking out a full-page ad in a newspaper than only you read yourself, nobody else.
If this analysis is right, then this is a brilliant outcome: we are making them invest time, effort and resources maintaining a list to protect his video — AND the video isn’t achieving anything by way of propaganda (so it is effectively useless).
Excellent.
Now, to really p*ss this guy off, we need only search YouTube for any other videos that he’s posted: if they are objectionable but not private, we can flag all those. Maybe put in the comments that this is a recidivist poster of objectionable material and demand that he be banned OR we will complain to the State Department...
In the face of that kind of ultimatum, YouTube would be silly not to ban him. And if they don’t, they can explain “why not?” to the State Department.
Which means that not only have we made him maintain this time-consuming list of friends, but we’ve got him banned anyway — which will have wasted a whole heap of his time.
What say you to that?
*DieHard*