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M.I.A Claims Sri Lankan Government Is Pulling YouTube Videos

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August 09, 2010 by Jason Gregory | Photo by WENN.com
M.I.A Claims Sri Lankan Government Is Pulling YouTube Videos

M.I.A has claimed that the Sri Lankan government is applying pressure on YouTube users to remove her videos.

The British-Sri Lankan rapper claimed users were being told that they were “supporting terrorism” by uploading the clips.

"They buried my Paper Planes, none of my ****ing shit comes up," she told The Guardian. "All my videos have been constantly pulled, the latest thing that's up there is from 11 months ago.”

When asked if it was her record label who was pulling them, she replied: "No, the Sri Lankan government is writing to them and saying, 'If you stick MIA videos up we're gonna take you to jail for supporting terrorism.'"

M.I.A has endured a fraught relationship with the government of Sri Lanka, and  has been labelled a "terrorist sympathiser" over her father's links to the  Tamil separatist movement.

M.I.A recently claimed that Google and Facebook had been created by the C.I.A.

The singer released her latest album '/\/\/\Y/\' earlier this summer.


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  • F*n terrorist! She must be upset that she can't blowup any more bombs in Sri Lanka and kill more innocent people!

    ~ by Diego 8/9/2010 Report

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  • Another patetic attempt to get popularity by the well known controversy monger. The government of Sri Lanka as a government that is emerging and trying to grow after a 30 year bloody war fuelled and supported by people like MIA has so many important things to do rather than wasting time asking people to remove these cheap video clips.

    ~ by Innocent Tiger 8/9/2010 Report

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  • Sri-lankan government is a genocidal government now they are spreading terror on the internet. MIA fans should strike back hack every single Sri-lankan sites

    ~ by hacker 8/9/2010 Report

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  • are all tamils stupid like her?for us, she is just a stupid barking b*tch who has a stinking mouth...

    ~ by migara 8/9/2010 Report

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