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If the bar for TED talks is that a talk must be of significant importance and present new ideas then they should be censoring many more talks then just this one. They invited the guy to talk, they should post his video. The time to make the cut was before then talk, not after. Choosing to cut his talk after suggest another kind of censorship, of the sponsorship variety I would guess.
You guys should read this: http://hubski.com/pub?id=30419 it gives some insight in to what happened.
thenewgreen · 4604 days ago · link ·
cgod, that's a really valid point. They must have known in advance what his talk would be. I really like TED when they focus in technology, education and design and think they toggle the sympathetic and even cheesy line when they tackle topics of the human condition or social issues. This talk didn't tell me much I haven't already heard many times. But I agree that they just shouldn't have allowed it to begin with. I'm not sure how the TED X platform works or if this was a result of one. Perhaps they need to more closely monitor their affiliate talks.