Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Inappropriate for who?

Drudge linked the following video from YouTube:

The video was done by David Zucker, of Top Secret!, Airplane!, Police Squad! (what's with all the exclamation points in the titles?), and the Naked Gun movies, among other things. The spot is well done--funny, factual, and disturbing all at the same time. It's well worth watching.

But here's where things get strange. When you embed a YouTube video (as I have done here), clicking on the video after it starts playing will open a new browser window that goes to the video's page on YouTube. Except in this case, it doesn't quite.

Before you get there, you run into the dire warning that would normally preceed a video containing bad language, nudity, or other "mature" material:



(Click the image for a larger version)

In case you think I'm making this up, check out the URL in the screencap of the browser. It ends in "7h3GPc_yMCE". That's part of the unique URL for the YouTube page that hosts the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?eurl=&v=7h3GPc_yMCE

Whom are they trying to protect, and from what? Or could it be about the stifling of dissent?

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