YouTube joins the War on (Some) Drugs.

Bad on them. The DEA is certainly welcome to post whatever nonsensical propaganda they want on the site, but the suppression of dissent is odious. What kind of arm twisting went on for that?

[Update a few minutes later]

In reading the comments, I see that there’s nothing unusual about this. Anyone who uploads a video can disable comments and ratings.

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Never mind.
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Still, as one of the commenters points out, this could end up backfiring on the drug warriors. First, who’s going to go out of their way to look at anti-drug propaganda on YouTube? Second, expect dozens of parodies of the thing to appear very soon, which will get viewed and linked.