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Sep. 14, 2012 10:01pm Jason Howerton

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Google Will Not Remove Anti Muslim Video From YouTube Despite White House Request for Review

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Google ruled on the side of free speech on Friday, announcing it will not remove a controversial anti-Muslim video from YouTube despite being pressured by the Obama administration to review the clip and see if it violates the site’s terms of service.

“We work hard to create a community everyone can enjoy and which also enables people to express different opinions,” a YouTube spokeswoman said in a statement. “This can be a challenge because what’s OK in one country can be offensive elsewhere. This video — which is widely available on the Web — is clearly within our guidelines and so will stay on YouTube.”

The statement continued: “However, we’ve restricted access to it in countries where it is illegal such as India and Indonesia, as well as in Libya and Egypt given the very sensitive situations in these two countries.”

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney confirmed to Politico in an email that the White House reached out to Google about the video on Tuesday.

“The White House asked YouTube to review the video to see if it was in compliance with their terms of use,” Carney wrote.

The clip in question contains scenes from a low-budget film called “Innocence of Muslims.” The film depicts the Muslim prophet Muhammad as a moronic adulterer who approves of sexually abusing children, among other things.

Crowds allegedly angry the YouTube clip have assaulted U.S. embassies across the Middle East. However, others have suggested that radical Islamists are merely using the controversial film as cover to carry out attacks and violent protests.

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V-MindMeld
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 4:47pm
LOL I think bho is getting a taste of his own medicine,,on the you didnt buid that” apparently the mooselambs see the film from his perspective,,,that government must have helped or given a hand somehwere along the way” for it to be created….. great post MRAFULL ,,,,,,

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Papadoc
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 4:25pm
WH doesn’t want to look like it’s censoring anything before an election. It just asks other people to do it for them.

The world bows in fear to these tribal psychopaths. As such, Google’s decision to not allow it in other countries is strictly a half-sased political move to assuage the WH, lower the ire of Islamist countries, and reduce potential risk to their enterprise without looking like they are caving to pressure. This solves nothing since its been downloaded millions of times and anyone who wants a copy already has one.

No kudos to any company who pretends like they allow free speech and expression, while block it going to someone who might be offended. Google, if I submit my list of videos that I find offensive, will you please block them from the USA? I didn’t think so.

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- littleQueenie
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 5:48pm
  Yours are very good points that ring of truth.
  
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iowapapergirl
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 3:53pm
I guess Google isn’t quite as tight with the Administration as I thought.

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Smug
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 3:25pm
I can’t say that all Muslims are bad. And to say that all Muslims hold radical beliefs of course is not true. But radical Islam has gained power sense this administration took office, and that cannot be denied. They know they are gaining power. And they will gain power here, if allowed.
I believe they are willing to use what ever means necessary to justify these horrific acts of violence. And by targeting this film as offensive, they believe gives them the right to assault and murder innocent people and silence those who would find fault in these actions. Yet they will commit the same offenses daily against Christians and Jews and anyone else that doesn’t hold to their ideology. I don’t believe for one second that this film, and this film alone led to these brutal and senseless murders. I believe these attacks were planned in advance of the releasing of this film, especially sense it seems they were coordinated and well armed.
Our ability to speak freely has been the corner stone our countries strength and these people know it. Take away a persons ability to speak freely and you can manipulate and control the masses. Does this administration not see the danger in this? Giving in to radicals will never satisfy them. They will only see it as a sign of weakness and become more aggressive. I applaud Google for standing firm ……..MSSMUG

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- Ivabig1
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:02pm
  You are absolutely right, except for one thing this administration does know the danger and doesn’t give a rats patutie. They actually applaud this action, and will use it to destroy is from with-in.
  
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smartgirl
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 2:14pm
Good job, Google. Good to see someone protecting our freedoms. And, have you figured out yet that Obama is not on your side?

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kat747
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 1:13pm
Good for you people at Google.
Tell the WH that you will remove it as soon as that murderous phrase in the Koran advocating the
killing of all infidels” is taken out of every copy of the Koran on the face of the earth.
Believe me, you will not ever have to remove it from Google.
If the Islamists can deal with “the killing of all infidels” in their so-called holy book,
THEY CAN DEAL WITH A MOVIE.
Those terrorists and murderers are now sanctioned by our White House.
We have to clean “house” in Nov, 2012 !

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nosharia
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 1:01pm
Jay Carney…is that a veiled threat to Youtube? “in compliance with it’s terms of use” seems like if they know what’s good for them they will remove the film. Good on ya Youtube!

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coalfired
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 12:43pm
If Islam is in fact, the religion of peace, as they say, why does someone have to die, buildings burn and chaos erupts every time something in the world “******” them off.
Islam is truly the religion of Satan! Its a cancer on the human race.

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saneromeo
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 12:04pm
Remeber Google and Facebook execs bragging that they started the Arab Spring? Googles consistently caves to China, but now all of a sudden they are ultimately free speech? I don’t buy it.
http://saneromeo.wordpress.com/

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Freeflyer
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:38am
Google has more sense than the Obama administration. What would be the point of removing since Egypt is playing it on their “news” network. Cat’s out of the bag now. Sadly, I’m a bit surprised that Google would take a stand for liberty on this .

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ratposion
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:31am
Obama always blames someone else

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ratposion
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:30am
FREE SPEECH Fight for our free speech

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scrudge
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 10:15am
Ah Yes….. take a look at wnd.com

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Seede
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 9:54am
The DC gang just doesn’t get it and I don’t think they ever will get it. It isn’t a damn film that caused 20 countries to revolt. People aren’t blind and they know what is going on. When they see a big shot nimrod in all of his plush splendor bragging how he murdered Ben Laden, it burns them up. We have other Muslims who were incarcerated with out any country revolting simply because the Muslims knew that they were caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

Osama bin Laden was deliberately murdered and was in all probability guilty of murder himself but instead of putting the matter to rest and quietly close the book on the matter it was continuously used by the DC gang as a bragging tool in their political agenda.

Then we have another murder brought about by American aid and that was Muammar Gaddafi. We invaded a sovereign country and overthrew Gaddafi’s government. The Gaddafi loyalists did not forget this for a moment. To add insult to injury we have a Secretary of the State sit in her easy chair with no remorse in her soul at all for this man’s murder. Hillary Clinton clapped her hands in glee and shouted “We came, we saw, he died” — Ha Ha Ha – That also builds hatred towards our people and shows the barbarians that we are no different than they are. That is what we have in the DC gang today.

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Tigress1
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 9:37am
First of all, I don’t believe that the movie is the cause of all this upheaval and murders. Have any of us even HEARD an actual Muslim participating in these riots SAY that they are upset about the movie; or have we only HEARD that from the media and the Obama administration?

Even if the movie is the cause of all this chaos, we CANNOT take down the movie!!! If we do, then radical Muslims around the globe will cause chaos and kill even more people just to get their way. We cannot encourage this behavior by taking it down. Next week there will be something else that they don’t like and want to kill us over. There will always be SOMETHING that they don’t like. They hate everything anyway.

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Mahid
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 9:25am
Assalamu alaikum.i’ve read all d cmmnts nd i wanna say sumthng.brothers,i m a muslim but i do respect people of all religion.there is a misconception about us muslims.that’s not r8.u should know wat is true.it’s your duty.don’t blame anyperson widout knowing anything about him,widout justifying the r8 nd wrng.the brothers who r saying dat d vdo has the r8 information,they r biast.i’ll say if this is r8 u americans are more muslim than us.cz u r following these illegal sexual intercourse,adulteration,sexual child abusing nd many other similar things.nd we r not creating any warfare.ur govt. is doing this.they r calling these “war 4 peace.”is it true?u say.there is blacksheep in every religion,in every cast nd country.u can’t blame the whole muslim world 4 one person.hope u guys will understand.lastly,we muslims luv our ALLAH and prophet MUHAMMAD(pbuh) more than our family,our life.we can’t tolerate anykind ridiculous cmmnts on them.so we have done this.think with ur conscience then say whatever you like.thank you.

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- littleQueenie
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 12:35pm
  @ Mahid
  We have read your books and we do understand Islam and Islam doesn’t respect other religions.
  It only wants to dominate.
  How bout you read “Understanding Muhammad” by Ali Sina ?
  Take your taqiyya over to the Huffington Post.
  
  Kudos to Goggle for doing the right thing making a stand for Free Speech.
  
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SamIamTwo
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 8:46am
Don’t let the Muslims attack our freedom. Do not cave into Sharia Law!

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SamIamTwo
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 8:44am
Good for Google. Interesting too.

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T ParT
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 8:38am
I found the Mohammy video to be a fun, thoughtful and entertaining movie. Fun for the whole family!
I really liked the part where mohammy spreads stds to every man woman and child in his tribe.

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kickagrandma
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 8:26am
Their plan is to cause enough trouble that we go down/up in flames. Make no mistake google and this administration drink from the same bottle, folks.

Here’s some GOOD NEWS: Genesis 50:20.

PRAY ON, AMERICA!

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jujubeebee
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 8:21am
I guess this is our foreign policy now….requesting utube to remove a video, in addition to apologizing for it. When they take away free speech, guns, religious freedom ~it is over for us. They start with environmental controls, educational controls, media controls, move into healthcare controls. Should we all take bets on what area of freedom they will try to grab next? It may be the only way to make money because the jobs and economy are also being taken away.

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guz75
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 7:59am
I would agree there is no point in trying to remove it now, but I do feel it should not have been made in the first place. Of course we should have freedom of speech etc. but there seems to be little acknowledgement of the inherent responsibilities attached to these freedoms.

This film sets out to be nothing but inflammatory, having watched the full trailer it has nothing else to offer. I agree the people responsible for the attacks may have found some other excuse to act in this disproportionate manner, but setting out to anger a group of people you know are looking for any excuse to behave this way, is irresponsible.

I also have a lot of sympathy for the cast and crew, who were clearly duped by the producer. The producer new full well people would not have involved themselves in the film, had they known what was going to happen to the film in post-production. They effectively made a completely different film and every reference to the Islamic religion has been very poorly dubbed in afterwards. If I were them I’d be working very hard to get the film removed on that basis.

As I say the makers of this film have to accept some responsibility whether they like it or not. People should be free to express whatever they want, but sometimes you have to consider whether it’s the right time to express those things, or not. Having a freedom to say something, does not absolve anyone from the responsibility that comes with that right.

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- jujubeebee
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 8:24am
  There is surely a target on their heads and they will have to live with that fear.
  
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Concerned1
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 7:58am
Thank God Google is supporting free speech. The problem isn’t the video. It’s these fanatatic’s response to it. You don’t KILL someone for disagreeing with you. The WH has it all wrong. This is just one more thing that shows that Obama does not believe in American values. The revolutionaries died for free speech. This clown just wants to give it away.

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Cadcamtrainer
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 7:51am
What infuriates me is that they think that we are buying this hog wash…. The white house thinks we are that stupid. I mean, all this because a video but it has nothing to do with Obama bragging at every stop that he killed UBL, that he destroyed AlQuaida???? It is a insult to the intelligence of the American people. All that we need to do to stop this is VOTE in November…… This time, don’t forget to vote in a American. Kenyian didn’t work so well.

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LameLiberals
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 7:28am
GOOD!!!

Obama’s administration attacked Christianity from day one. Veteran groups were told NOT to give Christian services at VA cemeteries, to take down Christian crosses on public lands and on public buildings across this land that have been there for 40 years or more, forcing Catholics to tolerate abortions and birth control, etc. etc.

YET Obama PANDERS to Anti-Free Speech Sharia laws which prohibit talking trash about Islam.

Christians Ask President Obama Show the Same Respect and Tolerance Toward the Christian Faith
That He is Showing Toward Islamic Extremists and Terrorists
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/49546

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- StarkeRaving
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 1:44pm
  amen
  
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