Youtube censorship Cubadebate

On Wednesday, January 12,  Cubadebate Website was notified by YouTube  technical center--owned by Google--that its page on that network had  been closed following a claim for copyright infraction.

The issue particularly referred to a piece of a video on the  presentation in Miami of the Legal Fund for terrorist Luis Posada  Carriles, which we recently posted after having edited it out of a  longer material that was published on the Network, and which had been  reproduced by several sites, without any credit.

Following the claim by the person who filmed the ceremony in which  former CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles announced that he would be in  Cuba this year and he demanded pay for his services--including the  bombing of a civil Cuban airplane that claimed 73 lives--Google  immediately cancel Cubadebate's site on YouTube. At that moment,  Cubadebate had uploaded over 400 videos and reported 1,5 million  downloads, since it was opened nearly three years ago.

We strongly denounce this attempt against the freedom of expression of  an alternative site in a country undergoing a blockade, whose Internet  access is satellite-based and it does not have resources to count on  its own multimedia servers. Cubadebate can not purchase exclusive  videos produced in the United States, particularly those revealing the 
impunity of Miami-based terrorists and which, due to this reason, are  important for our news production.

Those who have followed our videos know well that the large majority  of them were original and that every time we use other sources, we  give them the appropriate credit, as long as they are properly  identified.

What appears unusual is that YouTube is infected with videos showing  manipulated and biased information about Cuba, with images that have  been stolen from Cubadebate's site on YouTube, while Google has not  withdrawn them from its social network, despite the fact that we made  our statements in that respect. We will soon publish those Websites  that are using our materials--most of them exclusive ones-- without  our consent, for campaigns aimed at demonizing the Cuban Revolution.

Cubadebate's editorial staff demands the reinstatement of our YouTube  service and we invite all our friends around the world to join our  claim:

STOP YOUTUBE CENSORSHIP! REINSTATE CUBADEBATE!

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