beatenwarrior said:
By all accounts that is NOT freedom of speech.
:?: I don't think you know what that means and I'm sick and tired of this expression being bandied about by those who feel persecuted. The freedom of speech is the protection of speech against unreasonable censorship
from the government. When you are uploading videos to YouTube, or posts to a forum, you are engaging in discourse in a forum outside of any legal protections against censorship. YouTube, this forum, and virtually all websites (even including the armpit of the internet: 4chan) have policies in place that restrict your speech in one way or another.
Youtube's policies are clearly laid out in the help section. If you are found to be in violation of those policies there are repercussions up to and including termination of your account. The Flagging system they have in place is a form of self-regulation from the user base, and by choosing to participate in that forum you are choosing to abide by those policies and practices, plain and simple.
The simple truth remains that many of your videos contain largely outdated or completely inaccurate information as pointed out many times in this thread. And the vast majority of your responses thus far have been defensive and crying persecution by this forum instead of actively engaging in the people who are obviously trying to help you create better material.
The sum argument is that your videos are childish, inaccurate, reckless and dangerous and to top it off you're attempting to profit off of such information by allowing youtube to embed advertisements into your videos at will. Furthermore the aggression you feel you're experiencing is a direct reciprocal to the impetuous attitude you've taken with those who have rebuked you on the above matters.
This forum is full of wonderfully generous people who would be willing to go out of their way to help you convey an accurate portrayal of the information regarding this substance in a healthy, adult, and most importantly MATURE manner (i.e. no stupid DMT vs monster shenanigans with a 1/10th of a second disclaimer about 'acting') The fact is I'd love to see a video like this on youtube with a million views that I can skip over when I go on a flagging campaign.
I suggest you go over to the YouTube thread that's been stickied elsewhere and look at what's been said about previously removed videos, and in general the kind of sentiment the community has. FURTHERMORE, I think it's prudent to point out that you might be too young to remember, or to have fully appreciated, what went down with salvia and how it met it's demise because of one particular forum. Hundreds of videos uploaded by stupid teenagers and young adults doing stupid stuff while smoking salvia. From jumping through an open window in a freak out, to smashing through a glass-top table all the while their moron friends laughing stupidly and having a 'fun' time. There were even more videos talking about how awesome Salvia was and how easy it was to get. There were videos of 14 year old girls talking about it. Guess where all these videos ended up? On the 9-o'clock news with an ominous sound bite about "Coming up, a legal high sweeping the nation's school". And it all became the cud for politicians to chew on while they pandered policy based on fear. The fear that stupid and irresponsible kids were engaging in and promoting the use of a dangerous drug.
You would be wise to lick your wounds. Let the issue drop, stop defending your stupid videos and start a new thread asking for help to produce accurate information from the community. If this is not something you want to do then by all means, locate a hosting service, create a website, and host your own videos outside of youtube's policies.
And for Cyb's sake, would you pelase get rid of the god damn lab coat and poster and stop pretending to be something you're not. The message will be much better received if you don't try and come off as an actor.
