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YouTube's Filters Criticized Again

The service is attacked for publishing anti-Semitism videos

By Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor

8th of February 2007, 14:32 GMT

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YouTube is a video service that allows users to upload their own movies and share them with friends or other members of the community. As you probably know, YouTube was acquired by Google in October 2006, being improved several times with new functions and tools. TestTube is a testing platform inspired by Google's Labs that allows the company and users to test all the features currently in beta stages that are meant to be included in final solution.

Since the Google acquisition, YouTube was continuously in the spotlights because the service caused copyright infringements or lawsuits produced
by the content published on the website. The search giant was sued several times, being accused for posting videos without authorization. The most known complaint filed against Google concerns Daniella Cicareli, Ronaldo's ex-wife who sued YouTube for publishing multiple movies without her authorization. Although the company sustained its employees removed the videos but the users uploaded them again, a Brazilian court closed YouTube Brazil until the service deleted all the content displaying Daniella.

As you might know, YouTube is a service that allows all the users to upload any movie but its employees aren't able to check all the videos and block the ones that infringe copyrights, so imagine that Google will record more lawsuits soon. Today, another blogger criticizes YouTube for publishing anti-Semitism videos, sustaining the company refuses to ban reported content or flagged movies.

"But there are also some anti-Semitism videos which want to show us the "reality" of a Jewish world domination. Of course, it's nonsense. But there are many people with an anti-Semitic background writing comments like these: "great! that's the simple truth!" or "nice vid mate" and believing it. By the way, the video got favorited 10 times!

Slogans like "Jews invented communism" and "The world trade center incident also a act partly done by jews" also incite the watchers of those videos. The destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11 was a public and very tragic event. That's taken as a reason to chevy Jewish people, although they hadn't anything to do with this act. The most scaring thing is a trailer of a game, the goal of which is to kill Jewish and black people," it is mentioned in the blog post.
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