“Sen. Joe Lieberman wants YouTube and its rivals to delete any videos produced by al-Qaida, other Islamic terrorist groups, and any suspected sympathizers. But because there’s no U.S. law requiring deletion — at least not yet — there’s not much the onetime veep candidate can do except complain. On Monday, the chairman of the U.S. Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee suggested in a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt that the company wasn’t doing enough to remove videos that are violent or could be used by terrorist groups to enlist followers. … Google, for its part, said its YouTube administrators had reviewed videos flagged by Lieberman’s staff last week and pulled down an unspecified number, but only if they contained violence or hate speech.” (05/19/08)