M.I.A. – BORN FREE

April 27, 2010


Early this morning, M.I.A.’s “Born Free” was pulled from YouTube for it’s “Graphic Content” in a claim that the video is “too violent”.

I’ve seen countless videos belonging to YouTube “partner accounts” with more blood, more violence, and most importantly that by YouTube standards are against their TOS.

All I’m saying is if your going to pull a video for violating “X” rule in the TOS, you better make sure you pull every video that violates “X” rule. It’s not right that this video gets pulled, and then YouTube partner videos go untouched for the sake of Google’s monetary gain. Here’s a cheesy video to remind you of all the videos you’ve seen on YouTube that haven’t been flagged.


I especially love the “We encourage free speech and defend everyone’s right to express unpopular points of view.” part.

Hmm… I see.

First off all, if you have red hair and freckles and are offended by this video, I am truly, truly sorry. But please understand, this is not aimed at you. Some people will disagree. But really. It’s not. In this video, you are the metaphor for society as a whole. You may feel indifferent about this and again, I sincerely apologize.

This video was pulled because it sheds light on a future very close at hand. One, certain individuals would rather us as a society be ignorant to until it’s say to late. One, that I would rather not face but seems to be crawling closer.

Yes, I’m prepared for the..

“Well, they could have used anybody, why’d it have to be people with red hair?”

I believe this completely detours from the point this M.I.A. video is trying to make.

~Ohh! So Famous!

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2 Responses to “M.I.A. – BORN FREE”

  1. Elroy says:
    April 29, 2010 at 4:13 AM

    Ginger Genocide?
    The only thing offensive about the video is what passes for “music” … WTF is that noise?

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  2. Andrew says:
    May 4, 2010 at 2:03 PM

    “This video was pulled because it sheds light on a future very close at hand. One, certain individuals would rather us as a society be ignorant to until it’s say to late. One, that I would rather not face but seems to be crawling closer.”

    Exactly how I feel about issues based around our environment and conservation: global warming, mass extermination of fish species with little consideration for actual sustainability. There are many cases in this day and age. Most simply aren’t bothered to think, properly debate and possibly be open to change.

    Will watch clip now, but had to bounce of your comment which I wholeheartedly agree on. Nice site BTW, I admire any indie journalist who speaks his / her mind and not afraid to slag crap off. There’s a lot of it out there. It makes the good stuff even better though :)

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