3 hours agoYouTube deletes dead terrorist videos
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)YouTube has erased nearly 50,000 videos presenting radical Islamist preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in 2011. Awlaki was known for preaching violence as religious duty, even though at the time of his death his family denied that he was a terrorist. The remaining videos are mostly documentaries and news articles, [...]
YouTube has erased nearly 50,000 videos presenting radical Islamist preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in 2011.
Awlaki was known for preaching violence as religious duty, even though at the time of his death his family denied that he was a terrorist.
The remaining videos are mostly documentaries and news articles, reports the New York Times, broadcasts Klan Kosova.
Awlaki posted many different types of videos on YouTube.
Some were appeals to violence, but others talked about Islam and its history.
Most of these videos are believed to be on the site.
Anti-extremism groups filed their first complaints about Awlaki's videos in 2009, but until last year it was still possible to find its violent materials on YouTube.
A long series of complaints and reports by groups working to counter extremism have detailed Awlaki's influence and have called on YouTube to act.
