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Re: YouTube refuses Lieberman request (re removing content attributed to "Islamust terrorist organizations")
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 08:01:54 -0700
________________________________________ 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:
________________________________________ 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. ... ---- Ross Stapleton-Gray, Ph.D. Stapleton-Gray & Associates, Inc. http://www.stapleton-gray.com http://www.sortingdoor.com ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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