YouTube, as a platform, reaches millions of people everyday. That reach, as well as the content that is hosted on YouTube, is only growing and bettering itself with time. Everything taking place on YouTube as well as the success that has been had there has been noticed by the Legacy Mainstream Media. The mainstream media is a dying, old machine that continues to find itself more and more irrelevant as time passes.

Rather than taking a deep inward look at themselves and seeing why people are moving away from them, those within the Mainstream Media would rather attack all YouTube creators with a blanket and false accusation of hosting 'extremist' content. These dying and soon to be irrelevant media giants are calling for major corporations like PepsiCo Inc. to remove all advertisements from YouTube. This will remove any ad revenue that content creators and Google may have gotten from these large companies.

While it is true that you might find some questionable uploads on the website from time-to-time, the vast majority of content submitted to YouTube is good, legitimate content. There is no reason to call for crippling all content creators on YouTube financially just because their opinions may occasionally differ from your own. One could say that line of thought is against many of the principals we have built our society on.



Now you might say that Pepsi has the right to decide where it puts its advertising dollars. And that is true. It is also true that we as consumers have the right to decide where we get our soft drink products from and which companies we support financially.

By signing this petition, you are pledging to never buy any Pepsi related products. To instead show your support to a company that believes in free speech and the free expression of ideas - Coca-Cola. Those at Pepsi, I hope you change your mind about YouTube quickly. There are a lot of thirsty people out there who are now going to be buying Coca-Cola over Pepsi.

A quick list of other companies that the Pepsi brand has merged with or has some dealings with: