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Title: Living Waters Attempts Illegal Censorship
Post by: Nemo on August 26, 2015, 03:30:58 pm
As some of you might have heard, Ray Comfort (Living Waters Ministry) released a "movie" about homosexuality this year. Now that the movie is public, the reviews have started coming in, including one from the Bible Reloaded guys. Hugo and Jake, fully aware of Ray's previous attempts at censoring reviews, did a full review of Audacity, but did not use even one single image from the movie. That didn't stop Ray. The review has been taken down, and the Bible Reloaded account has a strike. Patheos has the story here. (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wwjtd/2015/08/the-bible-reloaded-podcast-did-a-review-of-anti-gay-film-audacity-ray-comfort-filed-a-false-dmca-to-have-it-removed/?ref_widget=gr_trending&ref_blog=grails&ref_post=atheist)


At the time of this post, the video appears to be back up.
Title: Re: Living Waters Attempts Illegal Censorship
Post by: Ironchew on August 26, 2015, 03:45:37 pm
Google treats DMCA takedown notices as rubber stamps.

Why am I not surprised they acted on yet another illegal notice?
Title: Re: Living Waters Attempts Illegal Censorship
Post by: Svata on August 26, 2015, 03:56:37 pm
Their bots err on the side of caution, which is to say, err on the side of "Fuck you, this company has money and could sue us if we don't take it down."
Title: Re: Living Waters Attempts Illegal Censorship
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on August 26, 2015, 05:06:02 pm
Quote from: Svata on August 26, 2015, 03:56:37 pm
Their bots err on the side of caution, which is to say, err on the side of "Fuck you, this company has money and could sue us if we don't take it down."

Maybe there should be some kind of legal fund on the users' behalf.
Title: Re: Living Waters Attempts Illegal Censorship
Post by: Ironchew on August 26, 2015, 05:35:17 pm
Quote from: Svata on August 26, 2015, 03:56:37 pm
Their bots err on the side of caution, which is to say, err on the side of "Fuck you, this company has money and could sue us if we don't take it down."

Google and other huge corporations benefit tremendously from the DMCA. They actively lobby Congress to pass corporate supremacy treaties and legislation.

I have no sympathy for them and it seems awfully convenient that they have such automated measures in place to make life harder for the little guy.
Title: Re: Living Waters Attempts Illegal Censorship
Post by: Svata on August 26, 2015, 05:39:52 pm
No, I have no sympathy either. Its really kinda fucked.
Title: Re: Living Waters Attempts Illegal Censorship
Post by: Mister Pine on September 03, 2015, 12:20:07 pm
imdb.com gives it a 4.9 out of 10 which I find shockingly high.