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YouTube refuses Lieberman request (re removing content attributed to "Islamust terrorist organizations")
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 05:20:08 -0700
________________________________________ 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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