Friends of Freedom

OI will be monitoring which sites are taking down political videos like "Burning Down the House" to see where free speech is valued by the site owners and where it is not.

I want to be very clear on this point. This is in essence, not a free speech issue per se, but a property issue. Sites like YouTube are the property of their owners, who have the right to decide how their property is used.

But, the internet users of the world can and should exercise their "dollar votes"/"site-counter votes" on forums and sites where censorship is not tolerated. We just need to know where those sites are and choose to use them instead politically censored sites like YouTube.

As of the time of posting, I'm aware of two sites that have posted Burning Down the House that have not deleted it. They are LiveLeak and DailyMotion.
I'll be watching to see if that changes.

UPDATE: MetaCafe has a censored version of the MouthPeace video. They didn't approve of the language in "Money for Nothing." Well, neither to I, but I can't approve of this form of censorship either. They differ from YouTube in degree, but not in kind.