YouTube’s ban on certain types of weapons Pictures

YouTube is a ban on showing images of the weapons used to intimidate people to your site in Britain.

The new policy was introduced because of “particular concern” in Britain on this issue, site owners, Google, “he said.

The deputies criticized the video-sharing sites, YouTube, in July and said they must do more to the content.

The Interior Minister Jacqui Smith welcomed the ban on YouTube and calls on other websites to follow their example.

YouTube said that the introduction of new rules on weapons and intimidation will be the first time that the site has a policy changes, namely the United Kingdom.

The immediate threat of groups or individuals are prohibited throughout the world, but YouTube representative said that the need for “local laws and characteristics” in the country to see the diversity of content posted by users, as the site of the development community.

For example, there are already some other country-specific provisions, including a ban Nazi-related shooting in Germany.

This change takes place against a backdrop of rising concern about knife and gun crime among young people in the United Kingdom.

“We recognize that it is particularly concerned about the video in the United Kingdom showed that the weapons for the purpose of deterrence, and this is one of the areas we are trying,” said the representative.

“We just implemented a new policy in the United Kingdom to prohibit this type of material, as well as through our community, we will continue to work with YouTube as a platform for security and self-expression.”

“Strict Standards”

The representative said that although the site is responding to concerns raised by the media and the government over footage of weapons, which is not a “paradigm shift” in the current policy.

There are strict rules to study the content and changes to “tightening” of standards, he added.

The Minister said that he was “very satisfied” YouTube has “taken steps to ban video charm Ising weapons.”

“This is a real step forward. I hope that other Internet providers to ensure that our message that violence will not be tolerated, either online or in the real world,” he added.

In July, Culture, Media and Sport Committee called on industry to a new job, is to protect children from harmful content on the Web site.

The committee also said “common practice” for sites with user-Generated Content to verify the material in active faith.

Although the commission recommended the creation of industry body responsible for monitoring the Internet, stopped briefly to make a mandatory regulation.

At that time, YouTube, said he was confident in his system and on the web site 24 / 7 command is responsible for the content of the problem quickly.

source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7621013.stm