Wisconsin congressman wants a YouTube video censored

[thewayne]

"Wisconsin Republicans claim that no one else can republish a video of United States Representative Sean Duffy (R-WI) complaining about how he is 'struggling' to get by on his $174,000 salary without their permission, even though they originally released the video on YouTube for the whole world to see. Now the GOP is trying to take legal action to stop anyone else from republishing the video. The tape caused a stir for Duffy, a first-term conservative best known for his past as a reality TV show star on MTV's The Real World after Democrats flagged the comments about his taxpayer-funded salary, which is nearly three times the median income in Wisconsin, and criticisms began to flow Duffy's way. Here's a one-minute clip, excerpted from roughly 45 minutes of video of the public Duffy townhall, that the Polk County GOP doesn't want anyone to see."

ROFLMAO!

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/31/1716236/Congressman-Wants-YouTube-Video-Covered-Up

Comments

[silveradept]

Pain is temporary, but YouTube is forever. Also, public official making public statements at a public event. If the GOP successfully uses copyright as a tool to protect a public official's embarrassment, I think that a lot of people will have a fit and demand that all their own indiscretions be sent to the Memory Hole as well.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

It's online, it will never go away, as it's almost impossible to totally remove something from the internet. At the least, the instant the WI Repub Party demanded it's removal, LOTS of people started saving it as local copies.

[silveradept]

And probably started putting it up on file-sharing networks to make sure that it kept getting around as much as needed.