Senator Joe Lieberman's request that YouTube remove jihadist videos - you know, the film clips of attacks on U.S., Iraqi and Afghan troops, has been denied by YouTube. Of course, YouTube is taking the yellow belly approach that they just can't do it technologically. Yeah, right. Here's some of the article here at TG Daily:
Well, since YouTube seems unaware of how to monitor this group's postings of videos, I'll give you a couple of tips, YouTube:
1. Do a search under "Insurgents" and you will see a daily posting of these jihad postings - you won't find all of them there but about 75% of them - so there they will be ... ready for you to remove, k?
2. The majority of these videos are put up by a collection of two dozen posters. When you find one posted by a member, look up that member's post history and you will find a multitude of them.
Seems simple enough, right? I mean, why doesn't YouTube just come out and say they won't because they don't WANT to?!! What YouTube is saying is this: patriotic videos put up by Americans will come down off of YouTube because the jihadists are intent on flagging them but since most YouTube viewers are not involved in YouTube jihad, the terrorist videos will stay up.
Note: To Holger Awakens readers...if you want to be part of a movement to flag and take down jihadist videos on YouTube, you will find the "Jihadi Smackdown Of the Day" link over on the right side bar of this site (just below the Blog Archive) - that will direct you to identified jihadist members of YouTube that need a little slap around.
YouTube has told Senator Lieberman that it will leave it up to its viewers to help remove Al-Qaeda terrorist videos. In an open letter, Lieberman demanded that YouTube immediately remove thousands of videos because they clearly intended “to encourage violence against the West”. YouTube in its public blog post says hundreds of thousands of videos are uploaded everyday and that it cannot arbitrarily remove one group's videos.
Well, since YouTube seems unaware of how to monitor this group's postings of videos, I'll give you a couple of tips, YouTube:
1. Do a search under "Insurgents" and you will see a daily posting of these jihad postings - you won't find all of them there but about 75% of them - so there they will be ... ready for you to remove, k?
2. The majority of these videos are put up by a collection of two dozen posters. When you find one posted by a member, look up that member's post history and you will find a multitude of them.
Seems simple enough, right? I mean, why doesn't YouTube just come out and say they won't because they don't WANT to?!! What YouTube is saying is this: patriotic videos put up by Americans will come down off of YouTube because the jihadists are intent on flagging them but since most YouTube viewers are not involved in YouTube jihad, the terrorist videos will stay up.
Note: To Holger Awakens readers...if you want to be part of a movement to flag and take down jihadist videos on YouTube, you will find the "Jihadi Smackdown Of the Day" link over on the right side bar of this site (just below the Blog Archive) - that will direct you to identified jihadist members of YouTube that need a little slap around.
YouTube says it won't remove most Al-Qaeda videos
Mountain View (CA) – YouTube has told Senator Lieberman that it will leave it up to its viewers to help remove Al-Qaeda terrorist videos. In an open letter, Lieberman demanded that YouTube immediately remove thousands of videos because they clearly intended “to encourage violence against the West”. YouTube in its public blog post says hundreds of thousands of videos are uploaded everyday and that it cannot arbitrarily remove one group's videos.It's easy to see Lieberman's viewpoint because he is a conservative-leaning independent and the chairman of the powerful Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. He believes that most of the Al-Qaeda videos show “gratuitous violence” and that terrorist organizations use the popular video site to spread propaganda and perhaps even worse recruit followers. He added that the terrorist groups even use YouTube for weapons training.In the open letter to Google head Eric Schmidt, Lieberman demanded that all of the Al-Qaeda videos be immediately removed (even the nonviolent ones). Schmidt and the YouTube team did actually remove many of the violent videos, but left all of the non-violent videos. He emphasized that users are always free to leave feedback and “flag” videos that are offensive.“Users are always free to express their disagreement with a particular video on the site, by leaving comments or their own response video. That debate is healthy,” said Schmidt.
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