Google calls for anti-Isis push and makes YouTube propaganda pledge
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/24/google-youtube-anti-isis-push-inhuman-beheading-videos-censorship
Google has issued a call to arms against Isis, arguing that the terror
group has engineered a "viral moment" on social networks with propaganda
and beheading videos that needs to be challenged. Two of Google's top
executives - legal chief David Drummond and policy director Victoria Grand,
used the Cannes Lions advertising festival to launch an attack, and
appeal, against terrorist propaganda on Google-owned YouTube.
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I'm incredibly proud of Google for this stance. Through my close work with them
in the recent past, I have some insights into how complicated (and in many
cases, emotionally exhausting) it is to figure out how to best draw the lines
in such areas. To call it difficult would be a vast understatement, but the
folks at Google who work on this are incredibly dedicated to doing the right
thing.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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