YouTube: (again) a case of old vs new way of thinking
Apr 4th, 2007 @ 22:33I just saw this: Thailand has banned access to YouTube.
YouTube has previous been blacklisted in other countries, Brazil for instance.
This is such a good example of old way of thinking vs the new way of thinking.
The old way of thinking: We believe we can control what gets published. And if someone publishes something we don't like, we can just cut the access to it, and no one will see it. If we please we can also sue the owner of the service where we found it.
The new way of thinking: Anyone can publish, and a lot of people do this. If you cut access to the, in this case, published video someone else will publish it elsewhere on the web. Most important of all, you can't blame "the service", in this case YouTube, for what is being published. Yes, they should remove some content, if it violates the law, when they see it — but running court cases against YouTube, Google or a similar doesn't change a thing.
In what way are you thinking?
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Danish Newspaper Politiken has an article on Thailand banning YouTube.
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Tags: Google, Social web, YouTube
July 26th, 2009 at 14:50
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