Damn that YouTube...

The online community that was created, in part, to promote open source sharing and communication of videos, thoughts and ideas among the average joe has continued its descent into censorship pandering.

YouTube recently removed a community topic on "United Muslims" because of a conspiracy among its opponents to flag the topic as inappropriate.

Fortunately, there is proof:

This screen shot was taken from Digg.com, where I first found the story

The story was Dugg 1,537 times, so the popularity of the topic is clear. But if one clicks the link to the YouTube group this Digg is referencing, all that comes up is:

"Unable to load topic." What does that mean? It's obvious that YouTube took down the community topic and all discussion. But what did YouTube leave up? With only a small amount of research, I came upon this Muslim YouTube community group:

YouTube saw fit to remove the community discussion, which revealed the Muslim censorship AND YouTube's shameless collusion toward their ends. But YouTube must have missed the proof that these Muslim users conspired to perpetrate an act of censorship toward other users.

The community discussion that YouTube took down was created by users who simply wanted to point out that YouTube was caving into the multicultural sensitivity of Muslims.

YouTube doesn't want you to know that.

One can see this happening all over the world, perhaps most notably in Britain. Muslim groups have banded together to apply pressure on the British government to change its laws and rules so that they better conform to the Muslim faith as they see fit. I've written about it here. The inability of many Muslims to assimilate into their adopted homeland should result, in their view, in the indigenous populations altering their own culture. Sadly, many sympathize with this growing trend, and seem almost willing to cede their own freedoms for this immigrant cause.

I do not want to seem overly xenophobic. I have no problems whatsoever with Muslims immigrating to my country, and/or establishing a prosperous lifestyle for themselves and thriving. However, it's hypocritical of certain Muslim groups to flee their ancestral homelands due to persecution, or lack of freedoms, only to set up shop in a foreign land and proceed to impose their own beliefs.

When will YouTube/Google, and other media organizations cease to pander to such groups?

When will these forums, which should be shining examples of free speech, cease to suppress that which they profess to cherish and support?