Yvette’s coruscating letter

EXTRACTS from Yvette Cooper’s letter to Google vicepresident Peter Barron:

‘We raised with you National Action, a proscribed organisation which the Government has said is linked with terrorism, and whose activities are now illegal. You agreed that the video we reported to you should be taken down.

‘There are a whole series of hate-filled promotional videos by National Action still on You Tube... It is astonishing that Google and YouTube have not managed to put the words “National Action” into one of your search engines to see what remains on your platform and to remove it.

‘Secondly we raised with you the issue of adverts being put on hate videos so that extremist groups and Google end up profiting from hate. You assured us Google and YouTube “do not allow

hate speech or terrorist content to be monetised”.

‘It appears from reports today that this is not the case, and that... Government advertisements and major brands advertising is still being placed on inappropriate and hatefilled sites. As a result Google and these organisations are still profiting from hatred. Google is the second richest company on the planet. The lack of effort and social responsibility it is showing towards hate crime is extremely troubling.’