The Information War, Google-YouTube style

Posted by Beth on October 10th, 2006 filed in Afghanistan, General, International, Iran, Iraq, Islamofascism, Israel, Lebanon, Stupid, The War, Video

Tags: Google, YouTube, information warfare, cyberjihad, jihad, jihadis, snuff films, terrorists, dhimmis, dhimmitude

Thanks a lot, YouTube. Videos have gone from Numa Numa remakes to jihadi snuff films, with content monitored by terrorists and their sympathizers at CAIR. Look what else got removed from YouTube now. Submission, indeed. And as expected, Crusader/SpiritofCMartel has been banned AGAIN. (Reincarnated as SpiritofMartel.)

Message to Google: Do something about filth like this and this, and don’t submit to terrorists, or be prepared for a lot of negative publicity. I’m not optimistic, though. The problem was stated well in The Guardian, of all places:

Welcome to YouTube - once a playground for teenagers, now an important front in the global war on terror. In recent months footage once available only in Baghdad shops and on jihadi message boards has appeared on video-sharing websites such as YouTube and Google Video.

And I’ll certainly second this:

Last month the chair of the house intelligence committee, Pete Hoekstra, warned that the West was slow to recognise the importance of propaganda to extremist groups and to counter its effects. “There needs to be an effective complete strategy if we are going to win this war,” he told a gathering in Washington.

(The transcript of Rep. Hoekstra’s talk is HERE.)

Here’s another place to keep an eye on. DHS/CIA/NSA/FBI/DOD, are you listening???