Last War Crime Director Semi-Celebrates YouTube Reinstatement
The power of the people online is of course not just about getting Bank of America to drop an ATM monthly service fee or Verizon to back away from a proposed payment transaction levy. It’s also about freedom of rightful artistic expression.
LA writer-director The Pen is trumpeting a victory in his fight against YouTube censorship, as well he should. After rallying supporters to protest the service’s decision to ban a one-minute clip from his movie The Last War Crime featuring waterboarding, which was taken down on the generic grounds that it contained “nudity, pornography, or other sexually provocative content,” thousands of protest emails were sent to YouTube.
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