[IP] YouTube refuses Lieberman request (re removing content attributed to "Islamust terrorist organizations")

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Ross Stapleton-Gray [ross@stapleton-gray.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:37 AM
To: David Farber
Subject: YouTube refuses Lieberman request (re removing content attributed to "Islamust terrorist organizations")

(probably also runs the risk of disrupting U.S. intelligence agency plans
to rickroll bin Laden...)

http://www.fcw.com/online/news/152587-1.html

The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Committee today asked Google, the parent company of the popular online
video-sharing site, YouTube, to "immediately remove content produced by
Islamist terrorist organizations" from YouTube and prevent similar content
from reappearing. However, the company immediately refused to comply with
his request.
Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) made the request in a letter to Eric Schmidt,
the chairman of the board and chief executive officer at Google, in which
he said that YouTube "unwittingly, permits Islamist terrorist groups to
maintain an active, pervasive and amplified voice despite military setbacks
or successful operations by the law enforcement and intelligence communities."
...
However, YouTube in a response this afternoon, said taking those actions
was not so simple and refused to remove all videos mentioning or featuring
these groups without consideration of whether the videos were legal,
nonviolent or non-hate speech videos.
...



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Ross Stapleton-Gray, Ph.D.
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