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UPDATED: YouTube and Ray Comfort's Movie on Homosexuality
News Release: A. Larry Ross Communications
CBN.com
- UPDATE:
YouTube Reinstates Ray Comfort's Audacity Trailer
LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 8, 2015 – When the trailer for Audacity, Ray Comfort’s new movie on homosexuality, was removed from YouTube over the weekend, he suspected foul play.
"The trailer had been removed 'as a violation of YouTube’s policy against spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content,'" said Comfort. "But since we found nothing in it that fit that description, we naturally concluded that YouTube didn’t like the content and yanked it."
In attempting to get the trailer back online, however, Comfort did receive an explanation.
"YouTube kindly explained that we had violated their metadata policy," the filmmaker stated. "We had added a list of keywords in the video description section, not knowing that was against their company policy."
Comfort happily noted that his team connected with YouTube and addressed the policy concern. Thankfully, they have fully reinstated the original video, and all of the original links that were in countless locations are now live again.
"This is a good lesson for us to thoroughly research such things so we don't violate policy and to avoid jumping to judgment," said Comfort. "While we appreciate the many people who supported us in this incident, we offer our sincere apologies to YouTube for wrongly suspecting them of blame, and also to news organizations who kindly carried the story."
ORIGINAL POST:
LOS ANGELES, July 06, 2015 – On the weekend Americans celebrated freedom, YouTube censored the trailer for Audacity, an upcoming movie on homosexuality by filmmaker Ray Comfort. In less than three weeks, the trailer garnered more than 130,000 views, but was suddenly removed on July 5 "as a violation of YouTube's policy against spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content."
"This is such an irony," Comfort said. "Last year, YouTube sent us a trophy congratulating us for surpassing 100,000 subscribers. Yet, now, because someone didn't like what they saw, YouTube is denying our freedom of speech and religion, and engaging in illegal viewpoint discrimination."
According to the New Zealand-born filmmaker, whose movies have been seen by millions, Audacity shares the biblical view of homosexuality.
"The foundation for the gay argument is that people are born that way, and that sexual orientation, like race, can't be altered," Comfort notes. "The trailer shows a number of people--both gay and straight--changing their minds about homosexuals being born that way, after I asked two simple questions. It's apparently unnerving for those who think people can't help being gay, and so YouTube decided to censor us. They're discriminating against us because of our religion."
Comfort added, "Watch the two-minute trailer and see if you can find anything that's ‘spam, a scam, or commercially deceptive.' All we want is to be treated fairly."
Comfort is asking Christians to respectfully request YouTube put the trailer back up by emailing press@youtube.com and copyright@youtube.com.
The trailer can be seen in another format on www.audacitymovie.com.
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