Clear Channel cries to YouTube

This is something that needs to be investigated pronto! So, Clear Channel, get on the job! Oh wait, this story is about Clear Channel...

Based on a tip we've received, it looks like the thought police over at Crap Channel has a new harassment tactic, and YouTube laps it up like pee water. Meseems Clear Channel is issuing fourth party requests to YouPube to delete videos posted by competitors' employees (even if they contain no offensive or copyrighted content).

Evidently, an employee of a radio station made a video clip down at the station which was then posted on YouTube. As that particular market is one of few places in America where Clear Channel doesn't have a near-monopoly of the radio business, it wasn't a Clear Channel station. The station never was owned by Clear Channel. However, Clear Channel does own many other stations in the market.

Anyhoo, the clip was later was removed from YouTube. YouTube claimed it was removed because it was posted without permission from Clumpy Channel.

So now Clear Channel's competitors need Clear Channel's permission to post videos on YouTube???

Not like we expect anything different from Clear Channel, for they possess about the most unethical, hypocritical, greedy, bigoted, bullying, censorious, politically intolerant attitude of any major radio company (or any other big corporation) in America. And that says a lot. Not that there are many more major broadcasters remaining after Clear Channel purchased every station it possibly could. As far as we're concerned, Crap Channel is a scofflaw corporation, because this takeover was only permitted under the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which isn't even a real law (thanks to the 1994 "election" being rigged).

I guess Clear Channel no longer thinks it owns just the airwaves. Now it thinks it owns everything.

The individual whose YouTube clip got deleted has grounds for a racketeering suit against Clear Channel (even if CC's buying spree was legal). It sounds to us like Clod Channel threatened YouTube to get the clip pulled, and in doing so it threatened a competitor by proxy.

(Tip: http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,78486.0.html)