Jewish group seeks to purge YouTube of anti-Semitic videos

[Anonymous]

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Hamburg - Germany's national Jewish body said Thursday it has filed suit against YouTube and its parent company Google, demanding a court order for the site to be permanently purged of anti-Semitic videos.

Stephan Kramer, secretary general of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said in Hamburg, "we charge Google with aiding and abetting racial hatred and discrimination on its YouTube video- platform subsidiary.

"We applied this week for an injunction from a court in Hamburg."
   
He said one example was a video clip that showed a late president of the Central Council, Paul Spiegel, being burned alive. He charged that it had been available for download for months on end.

YouTube allows users to flag videos as inappropriate, leading to a review by YouTube editors who can delete videos that breach the platform's terms of use.

[MikeWB]

Oh wow... what happened to free speech in the World?!??!

[TeslaandLyne]

Jewish ritual murders was one of the best.

Counter videos and web pages were set up.

A study in dis information ready made.

And  you think these guys couldn't pull off 911 or hiding Tesla's technology
and saucers behind Truman's back while offering him the A bomb in 1945.

And getting Israel in 1948. Sure no way. They had no hand.
Perhaps a hand in everything that counted.

[mastermg]

We should sue these Jews for falsely accusing companies as anti-semites, whatever that means.

[Blame_it_on]

if you dont like it than dont watch it! the bigger deal you make out of it the more curious people are going to be BY NATURE!!!

Oh wow... what happened to free speech in the World?!??!

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

[Anonymous]

Judan Cries

Lieberman Wants Terrorist Content Yanked from YouTube

A U.S. senator has asked Google to remove videos produced by Islamist terrorists from YouTube.
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In a letter to Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., said, "A great majority of these videos document horrific attacks on American soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan."

Other videos, Lieberman said, "provide weapons training, speeches by al-Qaeda leadership, and general material intended to radicalize potential recruits."

Lieberman asks that Google apply its own community guidelines, which forbid graphic or gratuitous violence and videos that show, "someone getting hurt, attacked, or humiliated."

According to YouTube, hundreds of thousands of videos are uploaded to YouTube each day and the site largely depends on users to enforce its community standards. Because of the enormous volume of content, YouTube says it is impossible to pre-screen each video before it is posted on the site.

In any case, according to terrorism analyst Ben Venzke, removing terrorist videos from YouTube would have little effect.

"The core underlying issue is that whether you take the videos off of YouTube or not they will always be available at numerous other locations online," Venzke told ABC News.

"New outlets are popping up constantly and when you take one down, 10 more simply appear to fill the gap. The problem is the very nature of the Internet itself. It makes controlling and denying access to information simply impossible," Venzke added.

Case in point: Earlier this month, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Reform Committee, which Lieberman chairs, issued a staff report entitled, "Violent Islamist Extremism, the Internet, and Home Grown Terrorist Threat."

At a press conference on May 8, Lieberman played a video compilation that included beheadings and bomb and rocket attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq.

That video, which was posted on YouTube, has since been taken down. But after showing the clip at his press conference, the video was linked and posted on other Web sites and remains available.