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FAK Familyy: Stupid, and proud of it

It’s always great to hear stories about young people getting together to do something worthwhile for themselves or their community. Sadly, this won’t be one of them.

This story, by Soraiya Gharahkhani from the Macarthur Advertiser, is about a group who call themselves the FAK Familyy who go about spray painting tags on walls (read article). [Read more]

Aussie pride perverted? – Cronulla riot YouTube videos

If you live in Cronulla and care about how the world sees your locality you may wish the video sharing site www.youtube.com didn’t exist.

Thirty seconds into the top rated video that appears when you type “cronulla” into the YouTube search engine you hear a female voice saying: “…we fought the Japanese, we will fight the Lebanese and we will take our country back,” and it gets worse.

The video, titled “The Truth About Cronulla Part 1″  is the first of 11 “Cronulla riot” related videos which constitute half the total number of videos on the first search results page.

Related videos on the YouTube site include titles such as, “Aussies Fight Back”, “Armed MC – Cronulla Riots New World Order in Australia” and “Cronulla OI (Australia) – The Showdown”.

Search for “cronulla” using the Google search engine and the top result is a fairly innocuous looking Wikipedia entry containing historic and geographical notes relating to Cronulla, however the second result is titled “2005 Cronulla riots” (link here) and contains detailed accounts of the riots that made news around the world.

Is this the face of Cronulla we want the world to see?

Should YouTube be asked to take down these and other similar videos?

Do these videos incite racial hatred?

Let us know what you think below.

Note: TheSauce understands that the mere mention of these YouTube videos and the so-called Cronulla riots is providing public exposure for the people responsible for uploading the videos in the first place. Our intention is not to inflame racial hatred, but to draw our readers’ attention to material that is already in the public domain and being seen by tens-of-thousands of people around the world: People who, along with many thousands of Sydneysiders have no way of gaining a realistic perspective on the issues portrayed in these videos by people pushing their own (self-serving) agendas.

Links to stories related to removal of YouTube videos:

YouTube declines request to remove Terrorist-produced videos

YouTube to comply with request to remove Viacom videos

Erie police try to remove video from YouTube

YouTube asked to remove dissident republican videos