US Customs seizes ‘YouTubed’ death threat

Steve Safran March 19th, 2007

As a good web libertarian, your first reaction is to tell the government “How dare you seize records from YouTube and Hotmail in your intrusive, heavy-handed, politcally-motivated investigation! The internet is about free expression!” Then you read the rest of Steve Bryant’s article and find out how U.S. Customs believes the suspect in a drug case sent death threats to his brother via YouTube. That’s right. YouTube. And you start to think “The heck with it. Take whatever evidence you want.” (Warning - the death threat contained adult language. However it also was set to music, which is a nice touch.)