A Toronto police officer whose stiff upper lip made him an inadvertent YouTube sensation and a symbol of police heavy-handedness at the G20 protests has launched a $1.25-million defamation lawsuit against the website.
Constable Adam Josephs was nicknamed “Officer Bubbles” after a video surfaced of him online admonishing a young protester during the summit for blowing bubbles.
The target of Constable Josephs’s lawsuit isn’t the original video, but a series of cartoons posted on YouTube over the following weeks that depict a policeman resembling the officer engaging in various acts of police abuse of power....
Youtube isn't responsible for the content, the individual users are, and they're legally allowed to as it's satire.
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
What really pisses me off is that the original poster of the video took them down and closed their account. Exactly what not to do when someone threatens your freedom of speech with a simple lawsuit. It doesn't even seem like youtube would have taken them down. Perfect example of a chilling effect.
