YouTube backs censors, bans dissenters
An ongoing YouTube feud between the Rational Response Squad and the Creation Science Evangelism Ministries is highlighting flaws with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The law, of course, requires any online service presented with a copyright notice to remove offending works. The atheist Squad released a series of YouTube videos critical of the Ministries. In retaliation, the Ministries served a notice to YouTube claiming its copyright had been breached. YouTube removed the suspected materials, despite the Squad's claims of fair use and public domain. The Squad protested, and was subsequently banned.