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Violence goes on YouTube

YouTube has been grappling with issues of free speech and censorship following a deadly school shooting in Finland that left nine people dead on Wednesday.

Pekka-Eric Auvinen, the alleged shooter, had posted a video showing a photo of Jokela High School that transitioned to a man pointing a gun at the camera.

YouTube responded quickly to this by removing the videosand profile page of Auvinen’s username “Sturmgeist89.”

YouTube’s term of use agreement bans “pornography, obscene, or defamatory material” but the site still contains material espousing violence and white supremacy.

Source: www.news.com

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