You Tube Punts on Second and 3 Yards
An item came across my LinkedIn page yesterday, posted by someone who (rightly) thought the You Tube item (showing two Wall Street dudes fighting over a cab) was hilarious. Well, who could fail to watch that? Certainly not me, so I hit the link. A message came up, instead of the video.
This video has been removed because it violated You Tube’s Terms of Service.
I thought that was kind of weird and would have merely shrugged it off and gone on to other things, except for the fact that You Tube has continually refused to remove the now famous anti-Islam video that caused another blowout in the Middle East, not incidently, killing our Ambassador to Libya.
That seems to me to be far more important stuff than some Wall Street broker’s embarrassment at being caught in a cat-fight over access to a cab. It’s pure conjecture on my part, but You Tube certainly didn’t pull that video of its own accord. One of the hotshots involved (or their firm) must have got on the phone double-quick and had it…