The governor of the mexican state of Veracruz believes he is in the mid 20th century. when all governments (in mexico at least) censored all the media, and anybody who dared to challenged the censorship ended jobless and penniless (if lucky). Recently somebody uploaded a music video using a famous soundtrack cover "quiero que me quieras" in spanish from the song "I want you to want me" hte video is called "Yo te vi, yo te vi, robando" making reference to a part of the song (changed a little bit), using images of the governor.
It is amazing that this governor asked the IFE (Electoral Body in Mexico) to ask Youtube to delete this video, because it damaged his image, yeah! right blame the video!... he is a politician, show me a politician whit a clean image, nothing to hide, it is impossible, some are cleaner than others, but that is all, also they are public figures, and so as there are people who are going to support him there are people who don't like him, that is politics and democracy, so get use to it, it has arrive, and WE (the people) want it to keep it.
You can search on Youtube and find a ton of videos that attack and support different politicians, and from diferent countries, the Obama girl, all the Sendero del Peje youtube videos, just write the name of the politician or political party.
Instead of trying to censor Youtube, clean your image, if that is not possible, let it pass and resign from political life.
Since all this happened the video became even more popular and appeared in many more sites over the internet, and there is a response to his failure "censorship"
There is now a mexican version of the site Youtube, many 15 minutes famous people get their fame from youtube in Mexico, some of hte videos appear on national tv and the main characters went to talk shows and appear on magazines.
Lover at first sight exists... from the very first moment I saw Youtube, I loved it, because it has videos, from all kind of stuff, home made, professional made, ads, music, for free (old times internet) and loading really fast!.
Google is great the best search engine ever, if you know how to really use it, you can get anything from them.
And Google is now a BIG corp that is starting to worry me, their "Not be evil" thing worries me more, since like a mexican saying says "Dime lo que tienes y te diré que careces" "Tell me what you have, and I tell you what you lack" so they consider evilness as an option, and they need to remind themselves not to be, or they tell us they don't want to but... we don't know if that is true.
I don't know how is going to worked, I hope it remains the same, even the name, is a cool site, with great entertainment, and if they plan to charge for the copyright material (hope not) I hope it will be cheap, or worked with ads before and after the video started just like TV.
At least they now have a big and rich dad to provide resources for them.
By the way the Gootube name I take it from C|net Buzz Out Loud Podcast with Veronica Belmont, Molly and Tom, so it was not my idea... Buzz Podcast