is that ASCII text is where the Agonist packs 99% of its punch, so although it is very pleasant to have embedded video and pics, I really wouldn't care if they disappeared and I don't depend on them.

And when video's desirable and crucial, one must bear in mind that the internet is insurgency writ large. What makes the internet new and revolutionary is that there are too many individual throats to squeeze shut, too many printing presses to smash.

Making YouTube a central and visible command and control facility is begging for a single smart bomb.