DUing youtube.com?

[madmusic]

Is this a worthwhile battle? We know the freakers freep everything. Should we fight back on youtube with a concerted effort or would it be spinning our wheels? I'm new to youtube, so if we should DU there, how?

The freakers used to brag about how they owned the Web, and they did. Not any more. Yeah, I know, it's unfortunate uploads don't fall or stand on their own merit, but we know the freakers don't freep that way the only way to fight propaganda is with counterattack.

What to you think?

[dipsydoodle]

1. It would just become a them and us issue

unnoticed by most YouTube users.

I think you're aware that it's the stuff like this that gets the high hits : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8
That's had 8792195 hits !

Even Jake on his uke has got over 40000 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J30S6hkiyU

[Red Right and BLUE]

3. Wow that kid is awesome. eom

[dipsydoodle]

7. There's another version

somewhere on YouTube by the guy who actually wrote the tab for that. The one you watched is the simplified version !

[Beelzebud]

2. I say forget it. Do something in your community if you really want to

make a difference.

We won't take this country back by voting in online polls...

[Generic Other]

4. I've had almost 3000 people watch my videos since joining 2 months ago

We need to get our messages out there--anywhere. Of course, Youtube is mostly goofy stuff, but someone almost always posts The Daily Show and other political clips. The Olbermann clip made it to most watched, most discussed status (aided by DUers). The new Princeton hack of the voting machine clip is also generating interest.

While the vast majority on YouTube are probably apolitical, not all are.

We use their tools to fight them.

[Chimichurri]

5. This is an information war. No battle on the internets is futile.

I hate to describe it that way - but it is. The internet is all we got to communicate with so use it.

[LTR]

6. It's just that freepers are a bit more insane than we are

Sarcasm intended there, but freepers are nuts. Anyone read the comments on the ThinkProgress AAR article yesterday? Toward the end, nothing but cut-and-paste wingnut nonsense, most of it nonsense ranting. I got an email the other day from some wacko who sent out some nonsense to every lefty blog/message board/site he could proclaiming us all (in about 30 or so unintelligible paragraphs) 'traitors' (I'm sure quite a few of you may have gotten that email!).

Freepers are losers with no lives. And for some reason, since they're too chickenshit to fight the war they so strongly support, think of themselves as keyboard commandos fighting the good fight from the safety and comfort of home. And they think the only way to do it is to squash free speech.

And boy, do they love to do insignificant stuff, like freeping polls. They even clear out their cookies and caches just to vote multiple times! :wtf: Yes, they are losers.

Granted, this may sound a little hypocritical, because what are we doing? But I'd like to imagine that we're at least trying to solve and discuss the world's problems in a slightly more reasoned way, instead of just calling anyone we disagree with 'traitors'.

My advice about calling for 'DUing' of polls is to do it in a more discreet way. Freepers are obsessed with DU and anything that contradicts their narrow-minded view of the world. And we all know of the various sites and boards out there set up just to monitor DU (which means they really don't have a life!). When calling attention to polls that need to be DU'ed, do it in a sneakier fashion, with headlines like "CNN Poll: XXXXXXX" instead of "DU THIS CNN POLL!!!!!". See what I mean? Or just use the IM feature. Otherwise, it's like carrying water uphill.