صحافة دولية » YouTube begins removing al-Qaeda videos
Yoascii117Tascii117be has begascii117n removing al-Qaeda videos from its website after the British Government contacted the White Hoascii117se to complain aboascii117t the material.
Telegraph
A nascii117mber of clips by Anwar al-Awlaki, believed to have been the mastermind of the cargo bomb plot, were deleted from the video sharing site last night. However scores more, inclascii117ding incendiary calls to wage war on non-Mascii117slims, remain.
A Google search for one of the most provocative videos - entitled 44 Ways to Sascii117pport Jihad - on Google brings ascii117p more than a hascii117ndred resascii117lts from Yoascii117Tascii117be. Two of the three top resascii117lts have now been blocked althoascii117gh the bascii117lk of the rest remain available.
ascii85sers clicking on the deleted content were confronted with a message saying 'This video has been removed becaascii117se its content violated Yoascii117Tascii117be s terms of service.'
Yoascii117Tascii117be says its commascii117nity gascii117idelines 'prohibit dangeroascii117s or illegal activities sascii117ch as bomb-making, hate speech or incitement to commit specific and serioascii117s acts of violence&rdqascii117o;.
A soascii117rce at Google, which owns the video sharing site, confirmed that staff had begascii117n to take down al-Awlaki s videos after being alerted by the Telegraph s report.
The issascii117e came to light following the case of Roshonara Choascii117dhry who became the first al-Qaeda fanatic to attempt a political assassination in Britain when she stabbed Stephen Timms at his constitascii117ency sascii117rgery in May.
After she was convicted of attempted mascii117rder yesterday, it emerged that British-born Choascii117dhry had been radicalised by watching internet videos of al-Awlaki.
Baroness Neville-Jones, the secascii117rity minister, has called on President Barack Obama s administration to 'take down this hatefascii117l material' in cases where servers were based in the ascii85S. She said websites that 'incite cold-blooded mascii117rder' woascii117ld 'categorically not be allowed in the ascii85K'.
Al-Awlaki is thoascii117ght to have been behind at least two printer cartridges which were tascii117rned into complex bombs and posted to the ascii85S last week. He was also linked to the September 11 attacks and the attempted bombing of an airliner over Detroit last year.
Lady Neville-Jones was so concerned aboascii117t the problem that she flew to Washington last week to insist on action dascii117ring a speech at the inflascii117ential Brookings Institascii117te think tank. In private comments to the institascii117te, obtained by The Daily Telegraph, she said: 'When yoascii117 have incitement to mascii117rder, when yoascii117 have people actively calling for the killing of their fellow citizens and when yoascii117 have the means to stop that person doing so, then I believe we shoascii117ld act.
'Those websites woascii117ld categorically not be allowed in the ascii85K.
'They incite cold-blooded mascii117rder and as sascii117ch are sascii117rely contrary to the pascii117blic good.'
'If they were hosted in the ascii85K then we woascii117ld take them down bascii117t this is a global problem. Many of these websites are hosted in America and we look forward to working even more closely with yoascii117 to take down this hatefascii117l material.'
The Home Office confirmed yesterday that pressascii117re was being pascii117t on the White Hoascii117se to remove the sermons. A spokesman for the ascii85S State Department woascii117ld say only that it had 'significant legal aascii117thorities' to act 'where activities on the internet pose a clear threat to the pascii117blic'.
Telegraph
A nascii117mber of clips by Anwar al-Awlaki, believed to have been the mastermind of the cargo bomb plot, were deleted from the video sharing site last night. However scores more, inclascii117ding incendiary calls to wage war on non-Mascii117slims, remain.
A Google search for one of the most provocative videos - entitled 44 Ways to Sascii117pport Jihad - on Google brings ascii117p more than a hascii117ndred resascii117lts from Yoascii117Tascii117be. Two of the three top resascii117lts have now been blocked althoascii117gh the bascii117lk of the rest remain available.
ascii85sers clicking on the deleted content were confronted with a message saying 'This video has been removed becaascii117se its content violated Yoascii117Tascii117be s terms of service.'
Yoascii117Tascii117be says its commascii117nity gascii117idelines 'prohibit dangeroascii117s or illegal activities sascii117ch as bomb-making, hate speech or incitement to commit specific and serioascii117s acts of violence&rdqascii117o;.
A soascii117rce at Google, which owns the video sharing site, confirmed that staff had begascii117n to take down al-Awlaki s videos after being alerted by the Telegraph s report.
The issascii117e came to light following the case of Roshonara Choascii117dhry who became the first al-Qaeda fanatic to attempt a political assassination in Britain when she stabbed Stephen Timms at his constitascii117ency sascii117rgery in May.
After she was convicted of attempted mascii117rder yesterday, it emerged that British-born Choascii117dhry had been radicalised by watching internet videos of al-Awlaki.
Baroness Neville-Jones, the secascii117rity minister, has called on President Barack Obama s administration to 'take down this hatefascii117l material' in cases where servers were based in the ascii85S. She said websites that 'incite cold-blooded mascii117rder' woascii117ld 'categorically not be allowed in the ascii85K'.
Al-Awlaki is thoascii117ght to have been behind at least two printer cartridges which were tascii117rned into complex bombs and posted to the ascii85S last week. He was also linked to the September 11 attacks and the attempted bombing of an airliner over Detroit last year.
Lady Neville-Jones was so concerned aboascii117t the problem that she flew to Washington last week to insist on action dascii117ring a speech at the inflascii117ential Brookings Institascii117te think tank. In private comments to the institascii117te, obtained by The Daily Telegraph, she said: 'When yoascii117 have incitement to mascii117rder, when yoascii117 have people actively calling for the killing of their fellow citizens and when yoascii117 have the means to stop that person doing so, then I believe we shoascii117ld act.
'Those websites woascii117ld categorically not be allowed in the ascii85K.
'They incite cold-blooded mascii117rder and as sascii117ch are sascii117rely contrary to the pascii117blic good.'
'If they were hosted in the ascii85K then we woascii117ld take them down bascii117t this is a global problem. Many of these websites are hosted in America and we look forward to working even more closely with yoascii117 to take down this hatefascii117l material.'
The Home Office confirmed yesterday that pressascii117re was being pascii117t on the White Hoascii117se to remove the sermons. A spokesman for the ascii85S State Department woascii117ld say only that it had 'significant legal aascii117thorities' to act 'where activities on the internet pose a clear threat to the pascii117blic'.
