From ABC News:
A U.S. senator has asked Google to remove videos -- produced by Islamist terrorists -- from YouTube.
In a letter to Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., said, "A great majority of these videos document horrific attacks on American soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan."
Other videos, Lieberman said, "provide weapons training, speeches by al-Qaeda leadership, and general material intended to radicalize potential recruits."
Lieberman asks Google to apply its own community guidelines, which forbid graphic or gratuitous violence, and videos that show, "someone getting hurt, attacked, or humiliated."
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My Comment: YouTube receives hundreds of thousands of videos each day. While offensive videos are always removed, the problem is that it takes time from complaint to its final removal. The problem also comes from the fact that most people do not go out of their way to see these clips ..... and thereby be in a position to complain. Extremists and excited youngsters may love this crap, but average viewers like myself will not even bother going out of our way to find this stuff, let alone see it.
Therefore, Ben Venzke's comments are right on (unfortunately), when he says .....
According to terrorism analyst Ben Venzke, removing terrorist videos from YouTube would have little effect. "The core underlying issue is that, whether you take the videos off of YouTube or not, they will always be available at numerous other locations online," Venzke told ABC News.
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