Twit Tweeting Palin Death Wish Requests Privacy

YouTube Asked to Remove Video of Left’s Threats Against Palin

Within minutes of the shooting Saturday, the onslaught of inflamed rhetoric was immediate. And by the time Sheriff Clarence Dupnik made his now infamous accusations against right-wing radio and TV, which he’s since confirmed are nothing more than opinion, he’d stoked up the hate level online to a boiling point... I was stunned by the hundreds and hundreds of brazenly stupid threats of death against a woman whom most of these people had never even met.

Others were just as shocked. In fact, a couple of conservatives on Twitter – @coyotered9 and @JoeKenHa – were so disgusted that they decided to collect just a sampling of these public tweets and compile them into a slide show of sorts.

Twitter Users Wish Death on Sarah Palin from JoeKenha on Vimeo.

...quite a few from both the right and the left were sickened enough to let some of those Twitter users know that their behavior was reprehensible. And when the heat got to be too much for one user, she complained to YouTube about her precious privacy. Because she was “just voicing anger” in a public tweet and doesn’t want anyone “attacking her” back on Twitter.

This of course after publicly wishing death on a public figure.

YouTube has since issued a notification to the video’s creators, indicating that the video will be removed unless the so-called private information has been removed:

This is to notify you that we have received a privacy complaint from an individual regarding your content:

Video URLs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxgJKNpjSNI

The information reported as violating privacy is at 1:50

We would like to give you an opportunity to remove or edit the private information within the content reported. You have 48 hours to take action on the complaint. If you remove the alleged violation from the site within the 48 hours, the complaint filed will then be closed. If the potential privacy violation remains on the site after 48 hours, the complaint will be reviewed by the YouTube Team and may be removed pursuant to our Privacy Guidelines (http://www.youtube.com/t/privacy_guidelines).

However as Professor Jacobson points out:

There are two principles at issue. First, there is no expectation of privacy as to death wishes. Second, there is no expectation of privacy on Twitter.

Sorry lady, you'll have to live with the consequences of your Tweet, because even if YouTube takes down the video, we all have screen shots.

Which brings me to a third principle. You can't take it back on the internet.

Oh, yeah, Youtube probably will pull the video, but you know it will continue to live on, and on, and on...