YouTube strengthens fight with extremist videos. Now to leave there are even those videos of militants and recruiters of terrorist groups that clearly do not demonstrate violence or promote religious hatred. This choice differs from the previous policy of the company when he retired only to videos with scenes of violence or harsh words.
According to Reuters, this approach to filtering has been used for a few months. It all started with the fact that hundreds of videos a recruiter of al-Qaeda Anwar al-Awlaki, many of which did not contain violence and explicit hate speech was removed from YouTube, reports the New York Times.
YouTube told Reutersthat the company discussed the changes with external experts, who supported this step. First of all, the tightening of the website caused by pressure from the government. The authorities believe that such an organization needs to toughen measures against the spread of extremist content on the Internet.
Kent Walker, General counsel of Google, is confident that the company «found a middle ground between freedom of expression and access to information without promoting offensive point of view.»
