Youtube has been trying to rid itself of all the videos from the “Radical Cleric,” Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been pinned with instigating the stabbing of a British member of Parliament and for the shootings in Fort Hood, Texas.
Youtube had agreed to remove all videos of Anwar al-Awlaki, but their attempts has been futile. After their effort to remove the content from the website, you can still find hundreds of videos of the cleric that contain everything from standard scriptural commentary or clerical advice to more radical indoctrinating calls for terrorism and jihad. The video content has been posted repeatedly as copies. This struggle is magnified when you consider the vast array of sources online for posting such video content–distribution of any type of content from pirated music to terrorist indoctrination videos can be spread quickly, speedily and with innumerable copies.
