The Atheist Blogger

This has clearly been a YouTube-centered couple of weeks, what with the JREF’s YouTube account being suspended and then subsequently restored. Whilst James Randi might have been happy with the conduct of YouTube in this affair, most people were not. YouTube has a history of censoring people for speaking out, and it has a backwards policy of combating copyright claims. Luckily, this shouldn’t be a problem for much longer, as Brother Richard of the Atheist Nexus leadership has announced on his blog that a new video site, NoGodTube has been launched!

With NoGodTube, we can continue to debate, but on our terms. Theists will be able to present their arguments based on reason, but if they disagree with our responses, they won’t be able to get us banned or flame us. Best of all, we can use NoGodTube to preserve our arguments for posterity.

Some may argue that we will be biased because of our name, NoGodTube. The way I look at it, the statement, “No God” is the default position. Just like “No Unicorns” is the default. The burden of proof is on the believer. In fact, using Carl Sagan’s statement, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” it is more important to claim “No God.” If we find out someday that there are unicorns, the impact on our daily lives would be much smaller. – Brother Richard

NoGodTube isn’t designed to be a replacement for YouTube, but rather a supplement to it. People can upload a video to both YouTube and NoGodTube, knowing that even if their account is suspended or their videos taken down, they still have a viewable backup copy. Plus, the new site won’t censor videos and is open to discussion from both sides of the argument, atheist and theist.

Hopefully a lot of people will start uploading videos relating to atheism, and perhaps some of the big YouTube names like Thunderf00t, The Amazin Atheist, and gogreen18 will create accounts to backup their videos. If I ever get back into video blogging (no promises) I’ll make sure to use it, and I reckon that under the leadership of Brother Richard this project can only get better.