{"id":651098,"date":"2010-02-02T00:32:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T05:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21274"},"modified":"2010-02-02T00:32:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T05:32:55","slug":"youtube-censors-marijuana-question-in-obama-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/651098","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Censors Marijuana Question In Obama Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.norml.org\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/YesWeCannabis.jpg?resize=240%2C360\" alt=\"Yes We Cannabis\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21276\" height=\"360\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a>Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alapoet\">Steve<\/a> for the news tip! Steve Elliott writes in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokeofthetown.com\/2010\/02\/youtube_censors_marijuana_question_in_obama_interv.php\">Toke of the Town<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you voted for marijuana as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/citizentube#p\/c\/EB843ABAF59735FD\">CitizenTube question<\/a>, then your vote didn&#8217;t count. Yes, questions about marijuana were the most popular in the CitizenTube voting Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>But YouTube, in a gutless move, decided at the last minute not to present the highest ranked questions to the President. Initial reports that the President had ignored the marijuana questions were inaccurate; YouTube took pot, the top vote getter, out of the running.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama never even got an opportunity to answer the most popular question of all.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wait, what?<\/em> &#8220;We&#8217;ll let you vote, but don&#8217;t expect it to actually MEAN anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If they were going to ignore the questions that got the most votes, then why, exactly, did YouTube ask viewers to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks Steve for the news tip! Steve Elliott writes in the Toke of the Town: If you voted for marijuana as a CitizenTube question, then your vote didn&#8217;t count. Yes, questions about marijuana were the most popular in the CitizenTube voting Monday afternoon. But YouTube, in a gutless move, decided at the last minute not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2340,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2JnA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}