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beginning of this month, loren feldman decided to post a video on his site about the lack of black technology bloggers, a video that eventually stirred up quite a bit of controversy. because loren decided to use blip.tv to host the larger flash version of the video, some of the site’s patrons got upset and one of them actually sent them a letter detailing the potential damage to the blip.tv brand as a result of hosting the video.

Are you sure that blip.tv wants to have their brand associated with such “comedy”?? The blip.tv logo is prominently displayed next to his player (as was podtech’s) - is blip.tv as a company willing to risk such negative news coverage as this.

rather than taking the video down, blip.tv has responded as follows:

I found the video distasteful and not funny. But as a company we don’t delete videos on that basis. Instead, we err on the side of free speech, and enabling discussions. I think that a remix or response video would be more effective a refutation than censorship.

not only has this put blip.tv on my radar, but i have an enormous amount of respect for the site and their team.