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18 04 08 - 11:04

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Two well-known critics of Scientology have had their user accounts on the video sharing website YouTube suspended. The YouTube accounts of both Tory Christman and Mark Bunker were suspended this week. In an exclusive statement to Wikinews, YouTube explained why accounts are suspended, but did not specifically state why these particular accounts were suspended. Neither Christman nor Bunker received a notice or explanation from YouTube as to why their accounts were suspended.

On Tuesday April 15, Tory Christman a former Scientologist and volunteer for their Office of Special Affairs, and known as ToryMagoo44 on YouTube, had her account suspended for unknown reasons. On Wednesday, after complaints to YouTube from other YouTube users and from members of the group Anonymous, Christman's account was restored.

Wikinews confirmed Friday that Mark Bunker known as 'xenutv1' on YouTube, a television journalist and critic of Scientology, had his user account suspended. This is the second time that Bunker's account was suspended. He was formerly known as 'xenutv' when his account was suspended the first time.

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Perhaps the true "freedom"  of the internet is not being as upholded as we'd like...


fourteen comments

The secretive organizations such as the free masons, the Church (any church of religion, especially catholicism), and the skulls and bones club are becoming more manipulative and evil than the government.
Garret - 18 04 08 - 22:37

I agree this growing trend of cluts is worse than the goverment or will be soon…
Forte Exe () - 22 04 08 - 13:15

Sometimes i think the only release from this tyranny will be the sweet embrace of death.
Dakota () - 22 04 08 - 19:17

That’s just the cowards way out, I’d rather fight and die than fight to die.
Jason - 24 04 08 - 07:19

If you have nothing to live for, then find something worth dying for. I, pesonally, want to die the same way as The Devils Rejects. (if you havn’t seen The Devil’s Rejects, you should, it’s a very good movie)
Garret - 24 04 08 - 14:43

You are only further explaining the fact that youtube is a money-grubbing, selfish corporation that does not care about individuals
Garret - 24 04 08 - 20:57

My main point is that the notion of restrictions of internet freedom made by the author are unfounded through evidence stated within this article. If youtube did not have control of what content is on their site, they would lose their freedom. Because they remove content they ‘do not care about individuals’? How about when they remove pornography? Are they not considering (or caring) about inappropriate content that may harm youth?
Observer - 24 04 08 - 23:41

What about all the other 1,000,000+ pornography sites outside of YouTube that are easily accessable by youth? Are they not considering the well being of youth?
Jason - 25 04 08 - 10:36

The past two or three posters seem to be forgetting a fundamental point: YouTube, for example, or any organization that operates according to any set of arbitrary rules, by definition does not "care about the individual." Rather, they are concerned with an abstract "individual," a construct for whom these rules were created. YouTube makes decisions about content based upon how that content may affect the abstract individual. YouTube has no knowledge about any real-life individuals, nor any expertise in making decisions about content with respect to those real-life individuals. That having been said, it’s also naive to think YouTube, for example, could possibly give a flying whatever about any individual, real or imagined, when removing, say, pornography from their site. Such a decision would be made purely out of self-interest. YouTube, that is to say, the actual organization of human beings who commute to work and push through each tedious work day to collect a pay check, makes the decisions they have to make in order to keep collecting that paycheck so they can come home from work every day and enjoy what the various markets have to offer workaday consumerists, e.g. internet pornography. As always, ethics is dictated by a higher authority, and is an ever-changing, nebulous collection of trends that changes minute to minute, year to year.
[therapiststeve] - 26 04 08 - 17:03

I heard Mark Bunker was suspended for copyright violation (Apparently) he sampled a clip from the Colbert Report in one of his videos.
Youtube has always been pretty bad with this kind of stuff, both giving bans with no explanation and easily being bossed around by those who claim copyright violations.
Anonymous - 05 05 08 - 21:30

Did anyone notice a video from the Church of Scientology on the front page of Youtube under "promoted videos" the other day?
Anonymous - 07 05 08 - 17:02

Anonymous – Yes, i noticed that Church of Scientology in the promoted videos.
Strange, isn’t it?
Austin - 18 05 08 - 23:23

whats with this whole website being a front for kiddy porn? What would the melvins think?
anarchopunk - 08 06 08 - 17:29

After reading the article and all of your comments you seem to have diverged from the basic point. within any governed society period it is not the individual who controls what is seen, heard, spoken, or even thought. It the government. Nothing is given freely and all information is watched closely. Without the government’s control of our media and other aspects of life that we live anarchy would be the only choice but just anarchy in its purest form no. It would be deemed controlled chaos true anarchy and oxymoron onto itself.
Anarchic Angelous () - 13 09 08 - 22:49


  
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