YouTube Removes Videos Showing Atrocities in Syria<br />YouTube said that Some have risked their lives, others have given their lives to document the atrocities and document human rights violations.<br />Chris Woods said that When the conflict in Syria started, independent media broke down<br />and Syrians themselves have taken to YouTube to post news of the conflict,<br />"Things just got a lot harder now the videos that were on YouTube are no longer around." More than 6,000 videos documenting the Syrian conflict since 2014<br />were temporarily removed when YouTube shuttered the channel of the Qasioun News Agency, an activist media group with dozens of correspondents in Syria.<br />Keith Hiatt said that There are probably 200 or so civil-society organizations working on Syria alone,<br />Airwars said that Out of nowhere we received emails in quick succession<br />that said that individual archived videos had been deemed to breach terms and conditions,<br />While most still undergo a human review before being removed, a YouTube spokeswoman said the<br />technology might automatically remove videos and issue warnings to the content’s creators.<br />"The Arabic channel had our most subscribers and was deleted completely." Airwars also had around a dozen of its videos temporarily removed,<br />and at least five other channels belonging to Syrian opposition groups and the Syrian Ministry of Defense were deleted.
