YouTube fails to remove propaganda

YOUTUBE was branded a disgrace yesterday after taking months to take down banned neo-Nazi propaganda videos.

Labour MP Yvette Cooper said that she had told the Google-owned site about a recruitment video for National Action in February – but it was removed only yesterday, following her intervention.

Miss Cooper, chairman of the Commons home affairs select committee, warned other videos from the banned far-Right group were still easily accessible – and called on the Government to impose fines.

She said: ‘This is an utter disgrace. YouTube are failing to even do the basics and remove these recruitment and propaganda videos that have been reported to them so many times. Their failure to do so shows a disgraceful contempt for public safety.’

Miss Cooper said YouTube promised to take down the video, of a speech at a demonstration in Darlington, in February.

She spoke to the site’s boss about it in July before publicly raising the video again last month. Google employees were told about it again earlier this month, but it was not removed until yesterday afternoon.

Miss Cooper said: ‘I can see no reason why the Government should not now look at fines for Google, as this is a repeated issue that they appear to have no interest in resolving.’

YouTube said it removed content that promoted terrorism when flagged to the site.