Google/YouTube falling on the side of a more restricted and discriminatory Internet

[Joe Born]

It was one thing when Hulu blocked Boxee. We all half expected that
from Hollywood, but now YouTube is creating new restrictive tools and
blocking some devices (not yet ours but its probably a matter of
time). I just blogged about it. http://bit.ly/8lAJVq (Nero,
proofread if you get the chance, you're a good copy editor)

This is even worse than Hulu blocking Boxee for a few reasons:

1. It's mostly user generated content that YouTube is themselves
blocking, probably in many cases against the wishes of the content
creators
2. It's entire arbitrary. You may not appreciate that Adobe flash
controls a proprietary standard for web video, but at least they
license it in a non discriminatory way to everyone, Google is actually
picking winners and losers.
3. The Google brand is staked on "doing no evil" and promoting open
standards and open source, if Google can take this kind of position
with no ramifications, well frankly, any brand can do so without fear
of repercussions.

Please view the post and spread the word any way you can. If there's
not a swift and meaningful backlash to this, its going to set a very
unfortunate precedent.

Joe