14 DAY TRIAL // The story so far: a phone clip recorded in South Carolina showed the presidential candidate John McCain singing a small song about a potential war in Iran. Although the clip wasn't infringing any of the YouTube guidelines, it was removed from the online video sharing service without any official reason. Now, the song was quite funny, the entire audience laughing at it and someone even recorded it using the phone's camera. According to News.com the company's officials defended themselves by claiming the users rated the clip as inappropriate and, after a closer look, it was accidentally removed from the database.
"We appreciate the prompt feedback from our community regarding the McCain video. It was flagged by our users, we reviewed it and it was mistakenly removed. We have examined the situation and have since reinstated the video," an anonymous YouTube source said for the same publication.
The video was republished and you can watch it straight from YouTube or from this article. Now, YouTube was continuously sustaining the online video sharing service tends to become a powerful way to promote the presidential campaign for free. The parent company Google even designed a special channel for the upcoming election, Spotlight allowing each candidate to post a clip on YouTube and receive video replies from the users. After one week, the new service recorded an impressive number of views and a lot of clips uploaded by the users, YouTube managing to create an interactive and attracting discussion.
However, this is not the first time when Google accidentally removes some of the users' data because Gmail was involved in some similar problems. A few days ago, the search giant's employees mistakenly blocked the access of some Gmail users after they tried to suspend multiple mail accounts used for Internet spamming.