YouTube Suspends Egyptian Anti-Torture Activist's Account
"YouTube is catching a lot of flack for suspending the account of an Egyptian activist who had captured evidence of police brutality on video and uploaded it to the site."
In this case, I'm not certain YouTube SHOULD catch flack.
YouTube seems to be about sharing light, entertaining videos more than anything else. If it chooses not to feature violent videos, that should be within the company's rights. I am sure there are plenty of other places the Egyptian activist could share his movies online, and these places would be more suitable for his purpose.
The one thing that might give me pause is that YouTube does involve itself in politics in some ways. For example, the political debates in which users created videos of questions for presidential candidates. By opening this door to the more serious side of user-generated content, it could be argued that videos about torture are within the scope of the site and should not be considered as gratuitous violence.
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