Talk:Seddie/@comment-25501805-20140412222646/@comment-3247345-20140412225924

Youtube can decline to host any content they want under the 1st amendment. Not sure how blocking that could violate the copyright clause in the Constitution in any case. If anything it would be a violation of federal copyright laws that the clause authorizes Congress to make (the one regarding fair use for example) but again fair use doesn't require Youtube to host it, it just provides a defense against copyright claims. My guess is they don't want want to get their pants sued off by some overzealous copyright claimer (Viacom comes to mind here) so they preemptively block anything that might give rise to that.