Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) wants YouTube and parent company Google to stop hosting videos he says are produced by terrorist organizations. 
In a letter to Google chairman Eric Schmidt, Lieberman said, “Searches on YouTube return dozens of videos branded with an icon or logo identifying the videos as the work of… Islamist terrorist organizations. A great majority of these videos document horriļ¬c attacks on American soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan.”
On its public policy blog, Google responded that prescreening videos is impossible given the number of clips the site receives but that community policing has been an effective means of ensuring YouTube’s terms of service are not violated. While YouTube agreed to remove some of the videos Lieberman found suspect, it left others online, explaining, “While we respect and understand his views, YouTube encourages free speech and defends everyone’s right to expressunpopular points of view. We believe that YouTube is a richer and more relevant platform for users precisely because it hosts a diverse range of views.”
In a letter to Google chairman Eric Schmidt, Lieberman said, “Searches on YouTube return dozens of videos branded with an icon or logo identifying the videos as the work of… Islamist terrorist organizations. A great majority of these videos document horriļ¬c attacks on American soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan.”On its public policy blog, Google responded that prescreening videos is impossible given the number of clips the site receives but that community policing has been an effective means of ensuring YouTube’s terms of service are not violated. While YouTube agreed to remove some of the videos Lieberman found suspect, it left others online, explaining, “While we respect and understand his views, YouTube encourages free speech and defends everyone’s right to expressunpopular points of view. We believe that YouTube is a richer and more relevant platform for users precisely because it hosts a diverse range of views.”
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