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Monday, February 12, 2007
Terrorists have successfully been using the Internet to spread its propaganda for many years from attacks to beheadings. Now it’s using the worlds most popular video-sharing service, YouTube, to further its evil. It’s a problem that the State Department is attempting to counter but doesn’t know how to fully tackle it. “It’s new to everybody, we are trying to find out how best to engage with Internet companies,” Jeremy Curtin, a U.S. State Department official said.
While YouTube is removing videos, such as an attack that killed 4 US soldiers, it’s not hard to find other videos like one that shows an IED blowing up a car with a US soldier in it with an outline edited into the video highlighting the soldiers dead body flying through the air. Another video shows a string of IEDs blowing up under an Abram but fortunately, the small explosives — even in a large chain — are no match for the tank other than to give it a lift into the air.
Like many other unwanted problems of the Internet, this will be an unyielding problem to keep from re-occurring. Like rubber-neckers on a freeway slowing down to see an accident on the shoulder, many that do not support this type of act will still view these gruesome videos out of morbid curiosity. Thus, keeping the popularity high enough to encourage further postings.