I need two seconds of time from my American readers.

[plural]

This is a Test

Were it an actual emergency

I'd be in tahiti with the swedish bikini team

anyway

My dear friend budhaboy first posted about this here

Basically google is returning an error message to him
[and apparently others]
saying "cannot view in your country." when they try to view the video.

I'm using a Canadian ISP and can view the video
so I cant test it.

So I need my American readers to test the link
and see if they can access the video
and report back

Please include the name of your ISP
and your physical location in a comment
and whether or not you are able to view the video
additionally if you get a different error message
please include that as well

The video is found at the following link:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4258374615945369026

Comments

Re: clarification

[plural.livejournal.com]

I doubt this particular video is being specifically censored, more likely it is falling into a wider net which is preventing videos from Iraq from being displayed in the US.

This bothers me greatly.

Re: clarification

[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

I'm with you... I'm sure there's nothing wrong with that video in particular... but if they are filtering any videos about the war in Iraq?

Maybe they are heading off another prison debacle? who knows WTF?

Re: clarification

[jmichiko.livejournal.com]

me too, especially in light of the recent backlash against google for censoring google.cn per the chinese government. seems a bit hypocritical for conservatives in the states to have got all their panties in a bunch if the u.s. is also requiring something similar from google domestically.