YouTube needs to do more to vet its content, states a UK committee; the website disagrees

YouTube has come under criticism from MPs in the UK, who have stated that it needs ‘to do more to vet its content’, according to a report by BBC NEWS. The Culture, Media and Sport select committee has just completed a review of net safety policies.

The committee suggested a new industry body should be set up for monitoring content. It also stated a ‘standard practice’ for websites hosting user-generated content only. In response, YouTube’s owners stated the website had very strict rules and had a system in place, which provided users a facility to report inappropriate content.

In its report, the committee noted that some websites that it had monitored as part of its review exercise were found to have a rather ‘lax’ approach towards illegal content. Google, the firm owning YouTube, claimed it was very much confident the video-sharing website hosted appropriate content.

A Google spokesman responded:

We have strict rules on what is allowed (on YouTube), and a system, which enables anyone who sees inappropriate content to point it out to our 24/7 review team. We deal with it promptly. A direct link from each YouTube page makes the process easy and transparent.

Considering the volume of content uploaded on our website, we believe this is by far the most effective way of making sure that the tiny minority of videos, which break the rules come down fast.

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