YouTube has abolished nearly 50,000 videos of radical islamist preacher Anwar al-awlaki ,who was killed in a drone strike in 2011.
Awlaki was known for
preaching violence as a religious duty, although at the time of his death his
family refused to accept him as a terrorist.
Awlaki posted many
different types of videos on YouTube , some of them were clearly describing
violence ,while others were the narration of Islam and its history.Most of the
videos are believed to be removed from
the website.
If he were
alive today, Awlaki would have been banned from owning a YouTube channel
because he was named as a terrorist on UK and US government lists.
Anti-extremism
groups lodged their first complaints about Awlaki's videos in 2009, but until
last year it was still possible to find copies of his most explicitly violent
material on YouTube.
A long
series of complaints and reports from groups working to counter extremism
detailed Awlaki's influence and called on YouTube to act.
Alexander
Meleagrou-Hitchens, from George Washington University's research programme on
extremism, told the New York Times that YouTube "deserved credit" for
removing the videos.
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