Remy: Imagine (There's No YouTube)

As protests against "The Innocence of Muslims" video span the globe - and U.S. officials pressure YouTube's owner Google to restrict free expression - Remy imagines a world where politicians cave to angry mobs and dictate what we can see on YouTube.

Written and performed by Remy. Edited by Meredith Bragg.

About 2:30 minutes.

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Lyrics:
Imagine there's no rainbows
piano playing cat
no selling Winnebagos
because some mob got mad

Imagine other people
dictating what we see on YouTube

Imagine no intruders
no making people scared
No Hasselhoff and burgers
would Honey Badger care?

Imagine other people
dictating what we see on YouTube

You may say I'm a dreamer
the situation's too hostile
I hope someday they'll join us
and we all can Gangnam Style

• Category

  News & Politics

[SmokeRingsPipeDreams]

The govt arrested the maker of the mohammed video today. Big brother is alive and well. Beware all you democratic voters, you may be supporting a regime which hates free speech. Think about it.

[uberneanderthal]

two birds with one stone. this little video that almost no one had seen at the time of the riots deflects attention away from the US foreign policies that are at the heart of protests, and also gives the government the excuse they've been looking for to censor the internet.

[Dennis Moses Gostev]

My best friend is a muslim peacenik. Wonder what his reaction would be if he saw this video.

[Dennis Moses Gostev]

What did you smoke? Imagine by John is the National Anthem of Peace. All John wanted to stop the wars of the religions. Furthermore, Gangnam Style sucks!

[wesquishu818]

Putting this song and gangnam style in the same video is an insult to music

[Tessa543]

.... an escape goat? lol

[FiveofHearts1]

Religious Extremists want to censor the internet? Honey badger don't care.

[Linear Cryton]

You have also just described libertarians, who you consider "even more to the right". Right vs. left are not all that meaningful when it comes to liberty. Liberty is its own scale. And I'm sorry to inform you that Greens are logically inconsistent when it comes to liberty. The enforcement of equality that they demand necessarily erodes freedoms and civil liberties.

[LADudeCPP]

The Green Party is to the left of the Democrats and advocate strongly on behalf of civil liberties and other freedoms as well as less foreign aggression.

[varicodin]

this is better than the original!

[AustinAlegro]

Actually did you know that the these attacks were planned to happen on these dates, but because Obama was too buisy partying then visiting his intelligence meetings his administration made that YouTube video an escape goat.