Delete City uses the ridiculous storage allotment of web hosting services like Dreamhost to cache large amounts of user generated content from sites like YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, etc. and then monitors to see if any of this content is subsequently taken down. When it finds removed content, it automatically posts the content to your WordPress blog. The nature of the content can be customized by the user by site, keyword, and other criteria. Devious? Maybe. But also one step in the fight against censorship.
The DeleteCity plugin is currently in development and should be released in November.
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[...] really impressed with Jeff’s presentation of his work. I was really drawn towards his project Delete City, which keeps material normally hosted by 3rd party sites like youtube hosted locally on your blog. [...]