Equal Opportunity for ASL Users and Learners
The videos found on my YouTube site, allyballybabe, are of various songs signed in American Sign Language. The YouTube is used for educational purposes all over the world, as well as a bridge between... continue reading »
"Please allow these songs to stay on YouTube. They are greatly helping the hearing impared in learning ASL"
"I am currently a student learning ASL. My sign language classes have begun studying the history, rather than the language. Being able to see these videos is highly educational for me and is renewing my love for the language and the people who speak it."
"I support this petition"
"My sister does ASL and watching ally's video's has help me to learn ASL and has open my eyes to the beauty of signing songs!"
"Please don't take her vidios away, they actually make sence unlike SOME vidios I've seen"
"Ally has done nothing but help Deaf people enjoy the music that they have been missing along with bring the ASL community to light to those hearing that have never had any interaction with the Deaf community. I am Deaf and Proud. A lot of thanks to Ally f"
"At the end of the day, we aren't earning profit form the music we learn! We aren't earning from making fanvideos. We're doing it for fun. We don't claim to own anything, we always make it clear that we don't own it. We aren't hurting anyone."
"as a deaf person, i cannot hear music. i utilize allyballybabe's videos to enjoy my music, just as hearing people do. with the removal of allyballybabe's videos, you would be depriving the deaf and those involved with asl of their music and entertaiment, "
"WE all support you!!!"
"The videos are very educational and are beautifully performed. The videos help close th gap between the deaf and the hearing through music."
"Allow more people experience ASL and music together."
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"STOP AUDISM!! STOP THE OPPRESSION AND DISCRIMINATION!!!!... PRO ASL"
"I support this petition"
"Fandom vidding should also be allowed such as Twilight and Harry Potter."
"I hope your youtube does not get deleted. i have learned so much from your videos."
"I support this petition"
"It is rediculous to remove ASL vids down when the majority of vids uploaded hold some song or another that is not the property of the uploader. Come up with a better excuse please."
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"This is so annoying we want our good old Youtube PLEASE!"
"I enjoy the videos as an interpreter on one level, and as an interpreter of music on another. It would be a shame to deprive so many people of the chance to see ASL put to music, and the music to lose such a creative format. None of the videos I have seen"
"I work at a residential school for the deaf and blind. I am a dorm parent of special needs middle school boys and I would like to stress the fact that even though some of these kids are profoundly deaf...they can still feel music by it's beat and vibratio"
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"I think these videos provide a great service in teaching people how music and ASL can work hand-in-hand beautifully."