From Deseret News archives:
Little brother is watching you on YouTube
And now it turns out he was wrong. The future had more to do with "little brother" all along.
Just ask the now former 3rd District Judge Leslie Lewis. Little brother caught her berating a deer hunter in her courtroom and then throwing him in jail for contempt. Then he caught her again making disparaging remarks about LDS baptism ("dunking," she called it) during a divorce proceeding, clearly crossing a line separating church and state.
Because of this, she is now a member of a small club in Utah one consisting of judges thrown out by voters in a retention election.
Or ask George Allen, the Republican senator from Virginia whose re-election campaign hit a serious snag when little brother was on hand to watch him refer to a dark-skinned member of his opponent's campaign as "macaca," which some interpreted as a racial slur.
Planned Parenthood is open to a lot of criticism, but those particular claims happen to be completely false. Then again, Benson probably never thought he had an audience beyond the doors of the room in which he made the statement.
In its latest issue, Time magazine names the Web site YouTube as the Invention of the Year for 2006. That honor, prestigious as it is, may be a gross understatement. Each of the above examples was made possible by YouTube. And each of us myself, you, your neighbors and acquaintances could be snared by it if we happen to "lose it" or just say something stupid.
YouTube was invented by Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, a couple of young guys who saw a need for a place on the Internet where people could post all those little videos they take with their cameras or cell phones. Time's report said they envisioned it as a place for vacation videos or to help sell things on auction sites such as eBay. But as with so much on the Internet, the public got hold of YouTube and made it so much more.
Now it is home to everything from interesting storytellers to unwitting people acting out in public to politicians and other public servants making fools of themselves.
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