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Let's say they thought it was unlikely that the video was to blame. With lives on the line, how certain would you need to be, in order to ASK Google to tempora
by VikingCoder 11y ago
Let's say they thought it was unlikely that the video was to blame.
With lives on the line, how certain would you need to be, in order to ASK Google to temporarily take it down?
10%? 5%?
And it's interesting to me to try to picture things from the other point of view... People think that Sec Clinton didn't believe the video was causing a problem, so she took a politically risky move and had the video taken down. If she didn't boast about taking the video down, then why would she do it? I guess people picture her like they Keystone Cops, or something. Or is there a rational way to explain this, that I'm just not seeing? Like: She arrogantly believed it would never come to light, so why the hell not ask to take it down, even though she believed it had 0 impact on the situation?
- zaroth 11y agoI don't know if taking down the video was just part of perpetuating the narrative that the video was somehow relevant, or if they actually believed the video was relevant and thought taking it down could somehow help matters, or maybe they even thought taking down the video was "right" in any case because, heck our govt is so keen on censoring "offensive" speech... My only point is the choices are "dumb" and "dumber" so it's pretty depressing no matter what you choose to believe they were thinking at the time!