The video of Islamic terrorist group ISIS beheading a second American is much harder to find on the internet thanks to a secret coalition of the biggest social media and streaming video outlets.
An anonymous source revealed to the Times of Israel that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others agreed to work together to keep the video from being uploaded and spread throughout the world on their systems. Copies of the video uploaded to YouTube were deleted within seconds of their upload so other sites could not link them.
“It’s been very interesting, with this second beheading, how very little of those images have been passed around,” said Family Online Safety Institute CEO Stephen Balkam, who serves on Facebook’s safety advisory board. “It’s very difficult to find them unless you know of some darker places on the web.”
The Times of Israel also reported that after the first beheading video the social outlets decided to take a stand against the terrorists spreading their hate online.
The networks involved refused to give media interviews although YouTube released a statement saying they have clear policies to remove videos aimed at inciting violence.
Online privacy advocates said the censoring of the video could be a very dangerous precedent although most would endorse a way to keep the video from the internet if the discussion of the incident could continue to freely flow.
A woman who posted a video online that she said was aimed at “stopping the stigma” on abortion is now being questioned after the former actress’s video has been shown to have inconsistencies.
Emily Letts posted the video showing her smiling and praising her abortion procedure as part of a contest organized by pro-abortions groups, including one that advocates for underage girls to have abortions without parental consent.
Since the video was posted, it’s been released that the clinic where Letts works as a counselor paid to settle a malpractice lawsuit in 2003 after their abortionist performed on an underage girl without parental consent. The Cherry Hill Women’s Center also falsified the underage girls’ records.
The Christian Post tried to contact Letts about the situation but the Center would not return CP’s calls.
Pro-life organization Live Action took apart the video and noted what they called “many red flags.” Live Action said it was unlikely the baby was the age claimed based on the procedure and that one of the people shooting the video was behind the overall pro-abortion campaign.
But the possibility of the video being false is only part of the problem.
“Certainly it’s good to call into question the factors of the video and whether or not it was an actual video of her undergoing the procedure. But I think the most shocking aspect that makes it surreal and lacks reality is that women do not go into abortions with smiles on their faces,” Live Action head Lila Rose explained. “And when she’s having the abortion, we never actually get to see the victim of the abortion or the violent aspects of it, and how this is killing a person. The fact that she shielded that from view, whether it’s because it never actually happened and the whole thing is a hoax, or if it’s because it’s part of her propaganda, either way, the viewer doesn’t see the reality.”