[Reader-list] Facebook and Youtube

[Jeebesh]

dear All,

a video appeared in facebook and youtube a day before. (the details  
are below in the two news reports).

a lot of discussion had started in facebook around it. now it has been  
removed by both youtube and facebook. and along with it has  
disappeared all the discussions and comments. obviously it was a  
management decision. why they removed it no-one would know. Right to  
Information do not ever apply to corporate bodies anyway.

Both facebook and youtube has become critical space to see, circulate  
and discuss many current events. but this kind of arbitrary removal of  
material clearly shows that this is a very unreliable space and need  
to be backed up with other more secured spaces in the net.

warmly

jeebesh



http://www.indianexpress.com/news/mystery-valley-video-4-naked-men-herded-by-security-personnel/679349/

Mystery Valley video: ‘4 naked men herded by security personnel’
A three-minute video anonymously posted on YouTube and Facebook that  
purportedly shows uniformed security personnel in the Valley herding  
four young men stripped naked is being widely circulated in Srinagar.
There is no indication of where and when the video was recorded.
Inspector General of Police, Kashmir zone, S M Sahai told The Indian  
Express that he had watched the clip and it looks like an “old video.”
“We don’t know what is the origin of it (the video) but we will  
definitely inquire into it and check in what circumstances it was  
taken,” Sahai said.
The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) questioned the video’s  
authenticity. “Such a thing is not possible in Kashmir,” said CRPF  
spokesman Prabhakar Tripathi. “The video seems manipulated to tarnish  
the image of the force and police.”
Tripathi said it was hard to imagine how such an incident, if it had  
happened, could remain under wraps so long.


http://greaterkashmir.com/news/2010/Sep/9/video-shows-cops-parading-youth-naked-29.asp

Video shows cops parading youth naked
Facebook clip triggers rage
GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, Sept 8: Is there an Abu Gharib in Kashmir? At least a video  
clip, released and circulated widely on internet, suggests so.

  The 3-minute video, which has been uploaded on social networking  
site Facebook and YouTube, shows how paramilitary CRPF troopers and  
police in a brazen display of horror made a group of youth march naked  
in a locality.

  The video clip, available athttp://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/ 
video/video.php?v=1511380457625&ref=mf, has shocked every viewer, who  
expressed strong resentment over ‘uniformed hooliganism.’

  The video has shown Kashmiri youth being stripped first and then  
made to parade naked by a group of policemen and CRPF men.

  The video has been uploaded under the tag “India’s Abu Gharaib  
exposed in Kashmir.” It has been posted by a group named “Citizens of  
Kashmir” on Facebook on Tuesday evening and in less than 24 hours, the  
un-dated video was re-shared by tens of thousands of people.

  The clip is low in resolution and has apparently been shot by a  
mobile phone camera. Police and CRPF men hurl abuses at youth, at  
least four in number, as they parade them through a field in the  
countryside.

  A policeman repeatedly shouts at them and asks them to put up their  
hands as they try to cover their body by clothes. He asks them to move  
to a police station.

  The video has also captured the cries of women and children, who  
must have been watching the show from a distance.

  “(It is) democracy at work in Kashmir,” remarks a Facebook user  
while reacting to the video.

  “Maximum damage to human psyche occurs when you are stripped naked  
in front of your mothers and sisters. That is what Indian soldiers  
have tried to do. But alas they failed,” wrote another user.

  The video has generated thousands of comments.

  Many users have speculated that the video has been shot by some  
police or CRPF men and shared it with other people on mobile. Few made  
a guess that it has been shot in north Kashmir’s Sopur.

  According to psychologists, parading youth naked means hurting their  
self esteem. “And this can prove very dear to the forces. This will  
further add to the anger on the streets. We have seen people  
committing suicide over such issues. If such a thing has happened in  
Kashmir, it is highly condemnable. The government needs to look into  
the issue seriously and punish the accused cops,” said a professor of  
psychology, wishing anonymity.

  “Such display of horror would certainly add to alienation and force  
the youth to take to streets.”

  A user wrote that he would approach the National Human Rights  
Commission with the clip.

  Senior police officers refused to comment on the issue. “We don’t  
know anything about it,” said an officer, insisting not to be named.