Let's go free video speech
As if the world needed more trouble. An alarming eye-opening article via Wired News discusses the repercussions of the mushrooming video sharing sites such as YouTube, Google, MySpace, etc.
Consider this recent example: In a four-minute video that was said to be meant as a spoof, a young Marine sings about how he fell in love with an Iraqi woman but then gunned down her family after they confronted him with automatic weapons. The video of his performance, posted anonymously on YouTube, sparked an outcry and was removed.
But the Marine has since been cleared by a military review. Now the song is slated to be aired on a satellite radio show and released for commercial downloads.
It’s getting harder to protect children from exposure to inappropriate concepts both online and offline. It makes one wonder if it is fair at all to reproduce, really.
<p>I think Internet can’t be contained (restricted), may be we have to take care of our children then let them choose, I think we can’t protect them by preventing from exposure anymore, they can breathe it like air now.</p>