Nick Gisburne

Some of you may be familiar with the YouTube Atheist by the name of Nick Gisburne. He was a really friendly and intelligent British (methinks) guy, who in no way shape or form was extreme or broke the YouTube guidelines. One day, someone at YouTube decided that they would go and delete Nick's account for bad content. He posted no such thing. If quotes from the Qu'ran are inappropriate, then fuck, I quit. It seems someone at YouTube is a bit biased towards Muslims and does not like Nick. His account should NOT have been deleted. He made another account and posted a video on his account being deleted, then that video was deleted. Again, for no good reason. For the rest of this post, I will include videos in memory of Nick Gisburne.

Oh yeah, this was the description to his account deleted video:

SLASHDOTTED:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/10/214250

My accounts and all my videos have been deleted. This is a request for help to get them back.

This may be 3 strikes and you're out because as Gisburne2000 I had videos removed for copyright violation. But all the videos on my account at the time it was deleted were mine, and the one cited was removed because of 'Inappropriate Content'. Direct quotes from the Qur'an are apparently Inappropriate Content.

Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

YouTube support link:
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/request.py?contact_type=policy&submit=Continue

Thanks

Nick Gisburne

Here is a link where you can download the original video (hosted on my own site):

http://www.gisburne.com

You might need DivX installed to play it, which comes up first if you search for DivX on Google.

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IMPORTANT NOTE
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You may be picked up on this if you don't read the following. The quotes I used are taken from this page:

http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/cruelty/long.html

The Skeptic's Annotated Quran abbreviates the long, flowery language of the Quran into more legible, easily digestible form. Thus it is not strictly verbatim, but it IS a valid translation. It is NOT a commentary, nor is it a distortion of the content of the Quran. For example:

Qur'an says:
As for the Disbelievers, Whether thou warn them or thou warn them not it is all one for them; they believe not. Allah hath sealed their hearing and their hearts, and on their eyes there is a covering. Theirs will be an awful doom.

The text in the video (and SAQ) is:
Don't bother to warn the disbelievers. Allah has blinded them. Theirs will be an awful doom

The meaning is the same. I point this out because I do say in my video I used the text taken directly from the Qur'an, where in fact I used the text from the SAQ, but I still stand by the fact that this video shows 'Islamic Teachings: Cruelty From The Qur'an'

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CapnOAwesome


thedakkster


hardcaseownsyou


hardcaseownsyou posted Nick's video that was removed:



TheAmazingAtheist

Dear Youtube,

It has come to my attention that you have banned prominent atheist NickGisburne from your site simply for quoting passages from the Q'uran in one of his videos. This is an outrage and will not be tolerated by the large atheist community here on Youtube. If you do not restore his account and give him your full apologies, we will use our legislative powers and growing numbers against you and your sponsors.

Signed,
YOUR NAME HERE

chadagg


Katalyzt


There are countless other videos in honor of Nick Gisburne. I am, for one, angered at YouTube's actions. How could YouTube do such a thing, restricting freedom of speech? Long live Nick Gisburne!