{"id":136529,"date":"2018-05-23T10:48:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T16:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136529"},"modified":"2018-05-27T00:37:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T06:37:56","slug":"apparently-the-fcc-gets-a-lot-of-complaints-about-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/23\/apparently-the-fcc-gets-a-lot-of-complaints-about-youtube.html","title":{"rendered":"Apparently the FCC gets a lot of complaints about YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority seem to be &#8220;Anyone who takes stuff I like down from their privately owned site is practicing censorship because YouTube is a public utility so the FCC should be forcing them to leave up the stuff I like.&#8221; Though there&#8217;s a good sprinkling of &#8220;YouTube has stuff I don&#8217;t like, and YouTube is a public utility, so the FCC should be forcing them to take down the stuff I don&#8217;t like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/stop-this-blatant-censorship-the-poor-confused-souls-1826197652\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/t20kRek_76po5mmPDNFU3uJHmvU2J9AXmeOEMpbWsAzeTWfir9akAzu7EgrzUJOmMCch0i8vRU8uyQaOmmMKkCwwbWoOw3-SsYjID47qnyU5MZdeXkfwEhsmZZOC0G-CUQjHhvvWTkkTCXimAj9Cb9KAhz-vDQ2btcbMfyOtYbKlZDBcdYexEMWQc_FALqoEWRYfMRiscFiIgw=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/stop-this-blatant-censorship-the-poor-confused-souls-1826197652\">&#8216;Stop This BLATANT CENSORSHIP&#8217;: The Poor, Confused Souls Sending Their YouTube Complaints to the FCC<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which oversees telecommunications like radio, TV, and the internet in the U.S., doesn\u2019t regulate content on online platforms like YouTube. But that hasn\u2019t stopped people from sending complaints about the video site to the federal agency\u2014and they\u2019re every bit as unhinged as you\u2019d expect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/38CrK64QnPK\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority seem to be &#8220;Anyone who takes stuff I like down from their privately owned site is practicing censorship because YouTube is a public utility so the FCC should be forcing them to leave up the stuff I like.&#8221; Though there&#8217;s a good sprinkling of &#8220;YouTube has stuff I don&#8217;t like, and YouTube is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/23\/apparently-the-fcc-gets-a-lot-of-complaints-about-youtube.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apparently the FCC gets a lot of complaints about YouTube&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,133],"tags":[1503,1284,706],"class_list":["post-136529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-censorship","tag-censorship","tag-fcc","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed-2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6892,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/08\/squeaky_wheels.html","url_meta":{"origin":136529,"position":0},"title":"Squeaky wheels","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Dec-04 9:34am","format":false,"excerpt":"As has been getting a lot of bloggy coverage lately, some interesting research done on who exactly is complaining so vociferously about nassssty stuff on TV. 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