An Open Letter to GodTube
Written by Jesus4King
Posted on Friday, February 1, 2008 at 07:40 PM.
Why are my comments being deleted? You are free to do what you want on your website. But it is unethical to selectively delete comments that happen to disagree with your partisan opinions. It wouldn't be unethical if you informed people who were signing up for your site that their comments would be deleted if they contain partisan opinions that differ from those of GodTube. But there is no indication of this.
My problem began a few weeks ago when I voted for Ron Paul in your presidential poll. When I checked back a couple days later to see how it was going, Paul had been removed from the poll. I submitted your 'Contact Us' form, inquiring about the matter. Two weeks later, I had not heard back at all.
In the last two days, I made a number of comments on various political videos, including one video of my own, which was also deleted. Now these comments were in the midst of numerous other user's comments espousing similar or opposing partisan opinions. Strangely, my comments keep getting deleted. Here are a couple of comments I happened to save before they were deleted:
"Something pastors can do is teach the Bible truth about sound money and how dishonest bankers and politicians created the privately held Federal Reserve bank and are systematically stealing from all Americans. Every time they print more money it causes more inflation. At current rates, the 100K you save today loses 10% of its value in just a few years. That's 10K they just stole from you. Worse, all of the money they print is a loan to us with interest! Usury and unjust weights and measures are an abomination in God's book. RonPaul2008.com"
"If you really want CHANGE in Washington, vote for the only one who wants to return to America's founding principles of freedom, sound money, a small central government, and a non-interventionist foreign policy. Restore the Declaration of Independence - Stop the New World Order. Restore the Constitution - Stop trying to run the world. Restore the Bill of Rights - Stop the runaway federal bureaucracy. RonPaul2008.com"
I find it difficult to believe that GodTube would sanction such unethical treatment. I hope that it is simply a rouge employee who needs to be severely disciplined. In either case, I will be getting to the bottom of this, and preparing an appropriate response.
Thank you,
Chris Stevens
I finally just got a non-response back (three weeks later) to my initial inquiry about GodTube removing Paul from their presidential poll:
Greetings and thank you for sharing your point of view with us at GodTube. We appreciate your input as we use this and all customer feedback to help better our site as it is you who have made us such a success. We have forwarded your comments to the proper department for review and look forward to taking your opinions into consideration during future business decisions. Please check back frequently as we are a growing website and therefore constantly evolving with newer and better ideas provided in part by users such as yourself.
We hope that you will continue to support GodTube!
God Bless,
GodTube Administration
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From: Chris Stevens
Sent: Wed 1/16/2008 6:31 PM
To: Customer Care
Subject: Contact Us form from: Chris Stevens
I was wondering why you're censoring Ron Paul from your presidential poll? He's gotten more votes than either Guiliani or Thompson so far in the primaries, and he raised more money than any of them in the last quarter.