By Art Smith. Posted Friday, Jul 25, 2008 at 6:18 pm Filed Under: Blogging, Civil Discourse, First Amendment
About four months ago (I know, I’m a little behind catching up with some general topics), DavidL at BitsBlog shared an item from Edward Wasserman at the Miami Herald. Wasserman’s thought was that there is a need for rules to constrain course, offensive, and threatening language on the internet, or at least the news and [...]
Wow! I totally missed the Lieberman confrontation with YouTube (owned by Google) until it was mentioned in an email exchange I had today.
From CNN:
In a Monday [May 19, 2008] letter to Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, Lieberman asked that YouTube “implement its own policy against this offensive material,” by removing the videos. [...]