YouTube Takes Down Several Clips Specifically Pointed Out By British Gov.

While talking to the media in Web 2.0 Summit held in San Francisco, Google’s own Chief Executive announced that his company was “adding people to do reviews of videos” to strictly monitor any inappropriate comment. He confessed that although it was “impossible” to keep a full 100 per cent check on all the available content that the website uploads, hence YouTube has no other options but to rely on different types of algorithm-driven detection technique or the other very common method of the community itself to report any inappropriate content among them.

Few weeks back, after the British Government pointed out the inappropriate material at the website, to the officials at White House, YouTube immediately began to take action. It was noticed that major work was done towards the removal of more than a few al-Qaeda videos which promoted violence. A user with the name of ‘Anwar al-Awlaki,’ who is also widely believed to be held responsible for the cargo bomb plot, had uploaded several videos which were unacceptable to allow any public view. Hence those several clips vanished from the video-sharing website, which were also supposedly containing fire-raising invitations of war on non-Muslims.

Hence forth, any users searching for any such, or even those specific videos links, would have to face a message saying: "This video has been removed because its content violated YouTube's terms of service." Whereas, for YouTube disclosed that it was looking all such similar as the videos put forward by Awlaki and would “remove all those which break our rules”. He claimed, on behalf of the website, that they had “community guidelines that prohibit dangerous or illegal activities such as bomb-making, hate speech or incitement to commit specific and serious acts of violence”.