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BYU unblocks on-campus access to YouTube
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I hope the students will be able to show restraint and will not abuse this privilege by being lured in to the obvious seemy underbelly of Youtube which is fixated on shirtless confessions of anything deviant and perverse, and the prolific tendency to use profanity and crude humor. I hate how Youtube will list "popular" links at the bottom of even the most spiritual video most of which are highly innappropriate for most sensible human beings.
Yeah, where else would a BYU student go to learn vital career skills, such as how to make fountains out of Diet Coke and Mentos? Or if an iPhone can be ground up by a blender? Or that you can remix Shamwow infomercials into club tunes?
Don't get me wrong - unblocking youtube was the right thing to do. But the fact that they're doing it for the "educational materials" tells you something about the level of education you're going to get at BYU.
Good job China - uh BYU.
while the liberals here carp about the need here for free speech,
their OTHER HAND is working to shut down conservative and religious speech.
Why aren't BYU students required to shower and perform personal hygiene by these same rules and regulations?
In my mind YouTube is still questionable as an educational site. However, we have seen recently that more educational material is becoming available there. They made a great rational decision to allow access.
As a private university providing free internet access, BYU should be able to limit the internet as they see fit. Save yourself the embarassment of putting something about the 1st amendment on here.
Just because the large majority of youtube content has no educational value doesn't mean that there isn't a TON of highly relevant material on there.
Anyway, Youtube does have educational value. Several of my professors in everything from Physics to Manufacturing Processes to Sociology have used it multiple times in presentations and to good effect. For example, try searching "quantum mechanics" on YouTube and you will find some very informative and useful media on that and related subjects. Yes, you will get some ridiculous and useless stuff too, but that's the same as google.com. It doesn't make any more sense to block YouTube than it does to block Google.
Do you attack all churches or just ours.
Get a life!
What a wuss. How I'd love to meet you someday and see if you are as rude face to face as you are hiding behind your pathetic monitor.
Boo !
However this is ridiculous to someone outside the LDS religion. Most people demand to be treated like adults. If BYU alumni or students have a problem with the ridicule that's your choice.
What's next, reasonable financial aid limits so students aren't forced to seek private loans at higher interest rates? Or, hey, how about firing the deadweight employees rather than treating them as if they were untouchable? Or maybe, just maybe, canceling useless and annoying BYUSA elections? Pretty please?
Wow, your message got past "censorship"!
Er, Mormons have always been able to access what you cite. It was only the minority, part-time on the BYU campus itself who were blocked.
As for the video and other "evidence" you mention, I've seen and/or read them, and they are full of distortions, half-truths, and misrepresentations. Thankfully, I've read enough to know better. Maybe unblocking youtube will help a few more people get ALL of the truth, not just your jaded version of it.
If you knew anything about population dynamics and DNA, you would never make the claims you have. So, is it "spin" when an VERITABLE expert in the field (like molecular biology, or mesoamerican anthropology) fills in all the gaps you happen to ignore or hide? Who is controlling information now?
There is no way the Church can control what anyone reads or accesses, especially in today's world. That is mere assertion on your part. And your "facts" are questionable at best.
Everyone else, SHUT UP!
The campus wasn't so big that you couldn't take a walk to the edge (how apt!) to get a nicotine fix, and there were watering holes downtown that did a land-office business on the weekend as the college kids unwound.
I don't remember there being as much discussion about "control" and "censorship" there as there is here regarding what BYU is up to. My little college evolved in its policies and procedures, and it doesn't surprise me that BYU does, either. I'll bet every school in the state and country does. It's administrative decision-making at its most boring. So where does all the animus and bitterness come from? For those who want sinister, I suggest late-night AM radio.
It had been a few years, but I checked out Mormonism "Research" Ministries hoping perhaps they'd upgraded their approach. No such luck - still the same style, to wit: Develop a thesis, sift through obscure Mormon journals and documents, ignore all the stuff that goes against your theory and lift out the phrase that supports it, and write a little article about it. Or, if you don't have the time, find some peculiar incident involving Mormons and make a mountain out of a molehill.
This is all your sources "prove".
I was always disappointed that among all the countercultists that condemned Ed Decker, Bill McKeever was not one of them.
Who said it?
I am now convinced that we evangelicals have often seriously misrepresented the beliefs and practices of the Mormon community. Indeed, let me state it bluntly: we have sinned against you."
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