YouTube Removes Videos Showing Atrocities in Syria
YouTube said that Some have risked their lives, others have given their lives to document the atrocities and document human rights violations.
Chris Woods said that When the conflict in Syria started, independent media broke down
and Syrians themselves have taken to YouTube to post news of the conflict,
"Things just got a lot harder now the videos that were on YouTube are no longer around." More than 6,000 videos documenting the Syrian conflict since 2014
were temporarily removed when YouTube shuttered the channel of the Qasioun News Agency, an activist media group with dozens of correspondents in Syria.
Keith Hiatt said that There are probably 200 or so civil-society organizations working on Syria alone,
Airwars said that Out of nowhere we received emails in quick succession
that said that individual archived videos had been deemed to breach terms and conditions,
While most still undergo a human review before being removed, a YouTube spokeswoman said the
technology might automatically remove videos and issue warnings to the content’s creators.
"The Arabic channel had our most subscribers and was deleted completely." Airwars also had around a dozen of its videos temporarily removed,
and at least five other channels belonging to Syrian opposition groups and the Syrian Ministry of Defense were deleted.
