After Numerous Complaints, YouTube Hires Staff To Take Down Al Qaeda Hate Videos

More than 5,000 postings featuring Awlaki's videos were available on YouTube yesterday Photo: YOUTUBE

YouTube Employing Extra Staff To Tackle Al-Qaeda Hate Videos -- The Telegraph

YouTube, the video- sharing site owned by Google, is employing additional people to help review content before and after it goes live, following a spate of al-Qaeda videos which it was forced to take down.

Eric Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, said that the company was “adding people to do reviews of videos” as it is very hard algorithmically to monitor inappropriate comment. Talking to a small group of journalists at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, he went further and said that it was “impossible” to monitor 100 per cent of the content the site receives, which is why YouTube has to rely upon a mixture of algorithm-driven detection and its community to report inappropriate content.

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My Comment: I have trouble seeing them being able to regulate the content that is being uploaded every minute (let alone every day) .... but I wish them luck.

British MPs Urge The U.S. Government To Shut Down Videos That Promote Jihad And Hate On Youtube

More than 5,000 postings featuring Awlaki's videos were available on YouTube yesterday Photo: YOUTUBE

White House 'Must Shut Down Hate Videos On YouTube' -- The Telegraph

Ministers have urged the White House to order US websites hosting al-Qaeda videos to remove them after a student inspired by online sermons tried to murder a Labour MP.

Roshonara Choudhry, 21, became the first al-Qaeda fanatic to attempt a political assassination in Britain when she stabbed Stephen Timms at his constituency surgery in May.

After she was convicted of attempted murder yesterday, it emerged that British-born Choudhry had been radicalised by watching internet videos of Anwar al-Awlaki, the Yemen-based terrorist wanted over last week's parcel bomb plot to blow up aircraft.

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My Comment: 1rst amendment rights are sacred in the U.S., therefore any attempts to regulate speech will be met with opposition. However, I believe that since there are laws that prohibit videos like child pornography, violence and abuse, etc. .... a means to legally ban those videos that promote hate and violence can probably be legislated and upheld in the courts.