Good news for YouTube this week as comScore reported that users watched 5 billion videos in July. Bad news for terrorists as, under pressure from Senator Joe Lieberman, that famous Independent from Connecticut, the Google-owned portal has agreed to ban terrorist training videos from its site.
That means no more instructional videos on throat slashing or how to make an exploding vest or footage of sniper attacks. "Ninja assassin training" and "illegal street racing" are also banned, according to the site's Community Guidelines page. Terrorists hawking their how-tos on YouTube face getting their accounts shut down permanently.
The ban relies on users to flag any videos "intended to incite violence or encourage dangerous, illegal activities."
For more info http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/daily-brief/2008/09/14/youtube-now-terror-free
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