September 14th, 2008
Thanks to Lieberman, YouTube goes terrorist-free
TechCrunch headlined this news, “Liberman Saves YouTube From Terrorists,” and they get the tone exactly right.
Just take a look at his ridiculous press release, which describes Joe’s single-handed efforts to make the Internet safe again for God-fearing video jockies, which have now resulted in YouTube prohibiting certain terrorism-themed videos:
“YouTube was being used by Islamist terrorist organizations to recruit and train followers via the Internet and to incite terrorist attacks around the world, including right here in the United States, and Google should be commended for recognizing that,” Lieberman said. “I expect these stronger community guidelines to decrease the number of videos on YouTube produced by al-Qaeda and affiliated Islamist terrorist organizations.”
This spring, Google resisted such interference from Washington but apparently they’ve seen the light with new guidlines.
