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08/31/2007: "Web video provider censors Nazi-ish videos"

YouTube has taken videos that promote Nazi propaganda off its Web site after Jewish leaders in Germany considered taking legal action.

After coming under intense pressure from politicians and Jewish groups for featuring far-right propaganda on its file-sharing Web site YouTube, Google Germany has agreed to remove the offending videos.

Earlier this week, Germany's Central Council of Jews contacted YouTube administrators and the German Authority for Youth Protection on the Internet to demand that material glorifying Nazi ideology be deleted. A number of politicians called for a legal investigation into the matter.

After YouTube failed to react, a number of Jewish leaders announced they were considering legal action

[ As reported before, Jewish and liberal leaders put the pressure on this company to censor its content. In a "free society," we have passive ways to be totalitarian. ]

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2759837,00.html