YouTube Gets-a-Clue-Tube

Although some may ask What took them so long?

Video sharing web site YouTube is taking steps to purge videos put up by terrorists or extremists as training or recruiting tools.

The San Bruno company, owned by search colossus Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) had been criticized for allowing films on bombmaking with household chemicals, for example, to persist on its site. The company didn’t say which particular videos would be eliminated.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, had asked Google to stop the posting of such videos in May. Lieberman is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Critics say such training videos are so widely available on other sites that the YouTube policy won’t make much of a difference.

10 thoughts on “YouTube Gets-a-Clue-Tube”

  1. you can't be serious?!?! freedom of speech should be protected no matter what the issue. just because certain illicit or inappropriate videos are posted on youtube does not mean that they should amend the terms of use of their site. it is merely another type of censorship to prevent the free and open expression of ideas/information/art etc. now videos that oppose the common views of US or other western governments that don't portray violence are also being eliminated for fear of supporting alleged homegrown terrorism(1984 here we come!). everything can be taken advantage of to perpetuate negativity but if you close the overall scope of usability then you are in fact eliminating the freedom everyone deserves. youtube has lost an enormous amount of credibility from its once staunch rejection of censorship to this new farce of so-called neutrality…

  2. What about the freedom of expression to NOT promote murder and terror and violence and enemy propaganda? You mean that freedom is vorboten? Brainless liberals.

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