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YouTube Censored FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Net Neutrality Video
Net neutrality proponents have claimed the regulations combat censorship, yet YouTube happily censored a video of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai defending a net neutrality repeal.
The day before the FCC voted to repeal net neutrality regulations, Pai worked with The Daily Caller to releases a humorous video skewering net neutrality regulations. Part of the Dec. 13 video featured Pai swinging a lightsaber and dancing to a 17 second clip of The Harlem Shake, a catchy 2013 song parodied millions of times online.
Harlem Shake creator DJ Baauer complained to The Verge that the audio clip was “used completely without my consent or council,” and as a result YouTube censored the video for seven hours.
The Daily Caller pressured YouTube, and the video was restored.
How many parodies of the Harlem Shake is out there on YouTube? Close to 7 million. This one causes a problem.
Let me get this straight... Net Neutrality, which YouTube supports, is supposed to help combat censorship - and then they censor a video, likely for political purposes.
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Not making it a big conspiracy... but the copyright issue is very weak since there are literally a ton of Harlem shake videos in existence on their servers. They have a problem with THIS one.
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YouTube restored the video. They knew they were wrong and there was no copyright violation.
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Listen, this really isn't that complicated.
The owner of the Harlem Shake gets to decide who has the legal right to use it and who doesn't. If he wants to let everyone on earth use it except Ajit Pai, that's his right, as the owner of the content.
He decided that Ajit Pai shouldn't be granted the right to use it, and filed a complaint with Google. Google responded to his complaint, per the DMCA, and (as far as i can tell) determined that it was fair use due to being a parody.
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