People ask, Who pulls the YouTube strings?

GHN News Editor - YouTube
is the most popular video sharing site on the Internet, but some
question who pulls the strings and how is it decided to keep disturbing
videos available and instructional ones taken down.

Millions

of people objected to U.S.-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and a
listing of 700 YouTube videos.  Al-Awlaki is the Yemen-based imam tied
to accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, Christmas Day bomber Abdul
Farouk Abdulmutallab and attempted Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad.

Congressmen
Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., urged its top executive to remove postings
after numerous complaints were received by his offices.  Weiner warned
al-Awlaki’s message “has caused violence and is a threat to American
security.”   He insisted YouTube should “remove this man and his hateful
rhetoric from the website, as he poses a clear and present danger to
American citizens.” Under pressure from both American and British
officials, the videos were taken down.

But
it took the intervention of high-level officials for YouTube to respond
appropriately, a company called LivingFuelTV observes.  Their
instructional videos on breast cancer were taken down without
explanation, and they have been unable to secure answers and are
threatening to sue the Internet giant.

Approximately
one year ago, Green Heritage News observed hundreds of incest videos
posted on YouTube with explicit language and reported on this on another
site. 

Who
pulls the strings LivingFuelTV asks and the issue is raised in the
light of both national security as well as other videos that violate
YouTube's stated policies, despite the fact it has taken governmental
intervention to get the company to respond appropriately, according to

claims.