Terrorists No Longer Invited to Broadcast Themselves

Via Mashable

September 12, 2008 – 11:51 pm PDT – by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins 8 Comments

Back in May, I wrote about Joe Lieberman and the list of terrorist propaganda videos he found on YouTube.  He and his staff identified videos branded by terrorist organisations like al-Qaeda in Iraq, Ansar al-Islam (a.k.a Ansar al-Sunnah) and al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb.

Earlier today, YouTube posted an update to their community guidelines indicating that they’d much more strictly be enforcing their standards with regard to hate speech. It isn’t clear from the blog post today that this is in response to Joe Lieberman’s objections from back in May, but all the coverage today seems to make that assumption.

Is it Free Speech or Fire in a Theatre?
An interesting discussion ensued after I introduced the issue when it first arose. I expressed sympathy for Joe Lieberman’s position and endorsed the position that YouTube should actually enforce the existing terms of service contract that they had and remove videos from any organization that calls for violence against others (not to mention the genocide and destruction of nations).

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