From Snort Tube to YouTube

Okay. My drug street slang isn't all that great. And excuse me if I get a little sarcastic here, but it is well-deserved. From the same "leaders" who are outlawing every bit of educational access to Web2.0 as they possibly can through legislation (A.K.A. DOPA), we now have anti-drug videos for free download... wait for it... on YouTube. Can we see the irony here? The White House says, "If just one teen sees this and decides illegal drug use is not the path for them, it will be a success." yet these files cannot even be accessed by most schools. If DOPA passes, there will be no free public access to these (libraries, schools, etc). Read for yourself:hey

The decision to distribute public service announcements and other videos over YouTube represents the first concerted effort by the U.S. government to influence customers of the popular service, which shows more than 100 million videos per day.The administration was expected to announce its decision later Tuesday. It said it was not paying any money to load its previously produced videos onto YouTube's service, so the program is effectively free. Already by Tuesday, thousands of YouTube users had watched some of the government's videos."If just one teen sees this and decides illegal drug use is not the path for them, it will be a success," said Rafael Lemaitre, a spokesman for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy....President Bush's top drug-policy adviser, John Walters, said the agency was using emerging technologies to try to reach its audience. "Public institutions must adapt to meet the realities of these promising technologies," he said.

CNN.com - White House uploads anti-drug videos to YouTube - Sep 19, 2006

That last line is my favorite of the batch. "Public institutions must adapt to meet the realities of these promising technologies." Just let that sink in for a bit ... then go vote.

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