Is YouTube turning a blind eye to terrorism?
Fox News has a great story running about YouTube and how Terrorists use the servers to host terror videos and share them with the world.
With the global spread of high-speed Internet connections and the relative anonymity afforded by the world’s biggest and busiest sites, extremists have found a new theater to display violence and anti-American propaganda.
My feelings are very mixed on this issue. I really haven’t decided how I feel about YouTube allowing this kind of tripe, but I think I’ll eventually have to admit that it should not be censored.
Why? Well, first of all, how the heck is YouTube going to stop it anyway? The site is free, and the day we demand that every video published be instantly reviewed or edited by humans is the day it will no longer be free. Besides, right now there is a user powered system that does knock out a lot of these videos. It just takes time.
The gentleman who was being interviewed on the Fox News Video was defending YouTube, which at first kind of bothered me, but the more I thought about it the more I understood his viewpoint. The problem with us wanting YouTube to censor this stuff is knowing how and where to draw the line.
I agree that it’s terrible to see this junk on the web, but at least YouTube allows US the chance to get it taken down.
Thoughts?
