More than 5,000 postings featuring Awlaki's videos were available on YouTube yesterday Photo: YOUTUBE White House 'Must Shut Down Hate Videos On YouTube' -- The Telegraph
Ministers have urged the White House to order US websites hosting al-Qaeda videos to remove them after a student inspired by online sermons tried to murder a Labour MP.
Roshonara Choudhry, 21, became the first al-Qaeda fanatic to attempt a political assassination in Britain when she stabbed Stephen Timms at his constituency surgery in May.
After she was convicted of attempted murder yesterday, it emerged that British-born Choudhry had been radicalised by watching internet videos of Anwar al-Awlaki, the Yemen-based terrorist wanted over last week's parcel bomb plot to blow up aircraft.
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My Comment: 1rst amendment rights are sacred in the U.S., therefore any attempts to regulate speech will be met with opposition. However, I believe that since there are laws that prohibit videos like child pornography, violence and abuse, etc. .... a means to legally ban those videos that promote hate and violence can probably be legislated and upheld in the courts.
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