http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/sunday-review/free-speech-in-the-age-of-youtube.html?_r=1&hp
In her article "Free Speech in the Age of Youtube," Somini Sengupta addresses the pressures the freedom of expression and speech are facing especially in media. She starts out by talking about how internet companies go through a process of deciding which expressions can be allowed and they have to explain their rules and regulations and the values and laws in which they are based on. One Youtube video has stirred controversy all over the topic; an anti-Islamic video on Youtube was restricted in Egypt and Libya and it showed the killing of four Americans and later it was restricted in five more countries. Other countries decided to just restrict Youtube entirely and some complained but Youtube said that it did not violate its laws and measures of hate speech.
Sengupta first starts her article with a metaphor: "internet companies are a different breed." She then talks about the values of expression and speech which clash with the standards of people especially in Youtube. She then presents a specific example of this clash: an anti-Islamic video which was restricted in some countries while Youtube claimed it did not break its measures of hate speech. Sengupta also lists other companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google which all face the same problem. She then quotes Tim Wu, a U. of Columbia professor, who said that Youtube was right in restricting the video to specific countries. The author then talks about Apple and Google and other specific examples in which speech has been a topic of debate.
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