GigaOM’s new site (that focuses solely on web video) reports that CBS and Youtube have been caught red-handed.
On any normal Gootube page, you see the video and then comments below it (if any). On CBS videos, however, you don’t get to see the comments. You only see the links to the pages where the comments are supposed to be. Clicking them reveals more EMPTY pages of comments.
The only way to see comments on CBS videos is to click “View All XXX comments”. This is really odd considering I was able to read GREAT comments about Craig Ferguson’s show only a few days ago.
It looks like the comments war has been ranging for a few months already. Here’s the excerp from the NY Times:
CBS began moving and filtering comments on some videos in mid-October, shortly after announcing its licensing agreement with YouTube, in order to remove “profane, unconstructive criticism,” and off-topic political vitriol, said Quincy Smith, the president of CBS Interactive. To many users of sites like YouTube, of course, being profane, unconstructive, off-topic and vitriolic is the point.
All I can say as a Youtube regular, the new pages are butt-ugly. Now, that’s a profane comment CBS would probably want removed.
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