Govt committee slams Google exec
Web 2.0
02 April 2008
The House of Commons culture, media and sport committee has blasted Google's vice president in an investigation of YouTube's censorship policies.
Kent Walker received strong criticism after admitting the popular video site does not have any one person responsible to monitor content.
Adam Price called his defence of Google's policy "deeply objectionable". He said: "It surely shows your system is completely inadequate."
The enquiry was prompted after a rape video was posted on the site and remained there until it received 600 page views.
Mr Walker rejected calls for all YouTube's content to be pre-screened saying it would be "neither efficient nor effective and would burden the process of creativity".
Video sites are increasingly popular with internet users. Recent analysis by comScore showed YouTube is the most popular site and revealed 'light' online video viewers watch more TV than 'heavy' web watchers.
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