How's this for irony? Even as Rand Paul and his campaign tried to dismiss the seriousness of one of his campaign coordinators stomping on the head of a young woman outside Monday's debate, describing it as "both" sides "bumping" into each other amidst "lights flashing," followers of the Paul campaign swarmed YouTube in an effort to suppress the spread of the curbstomping video...by claiming it violated YouTube's community standards because it was too violent.

As you can see here and here, YouTube users flagged video as being so violent that it should either be removed from the site or require users to register with the site before seeing it. While they are indeed correct that the video is violent and disturbing, its relevance to an ongoing political campaign obviously outweighs any concerns about community standards that you might apply to a video of a schoolyard fight. The only reason to suppress it is if you want to protect Rand Paul's image -- and you don't care about the free flow of information.

Fortunately, no matter how much Rand Paul's online goons might want to stop you from watching the video, the internet is too big and too free -- at least for now -- for them to have their way. We've posted the video here on DKTV, outside the reach of their faux-Constitutionalist fingertips: