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

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: victormarks@gmail.com [victormarks@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Victor Marks [vxm@miglia.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:41 AM
To: David Farber
Subject: Re: [IP] YouTube refuses Lieberman request (re removing content attributed to "Islamust terrorist organizations")

For IP if you choose, Dave.

Lieberman isn't just manufacturing this concern.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._State_Department_list_of_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations#Groups_currently_designated_as_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations
shows that the US designates Harkat-ul-Mujahideen as a terrorist
group.

http://www.youtube.com/HarkatUlMujahideen is the youtube channel for a
group that at least allies themselves with HarkatUlMujahideen, if not
posted by the actual group.

Freedom of speech in the US (Google is a US company) allows terrorists
and their supporters to say what they wish - although freedom of
speech does not compel Google to give them a stage and audience.

Regards,
Victor Marks

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:20 AM, David Farber <dave@farber.net> wrote:
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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")
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> (probably also runs the risk of disrupting U.S. intelligence agency plans
> to rickroll bin Laden...)
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> http://www.fcw.com/online/news/152587-1.html
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> 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.
> Stapleton-Gray & Associates, Inc.
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