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Hold YouTube Accountable For Their Content!

Target: Chad Hurley, CEO, YouTube
Sponsor: Elizabeth Charon
  • Signatures: 2,370
  • Goal: 2,000
  • Deadline: 3-18-2008
Please join us in asking YouTube.com to be held accountable for enforcing their own Codes of Conduct and the content of the videos they host. A video containing frightening scenes of animal abuse was allowed to be shown to thousands of households across the world from 12/11/06 through 3/17/07. Many people flagged this video to be removed and YouTube took no action to do so.

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2,372 9:50 pm PST, Jan 16 Mr. James Mendoza  
2,371 1:38 am PST, Dec 6 Ms. Erica Woolley  
2,370 12:16 pm PDT, Jul 7 Mr. Robert Lauter  
2,369 7:02 am PDT, Jun 5 Mrs. Trina Knasel
2,368 4:20 am PDT, May 12 Ms. Miriam dong  
2,367 5:12 pm PDT, Apr 21 Ms. carol lillis  
2,366 10:40 am PDT, Apr 21   E. Cooney  
2,365 10:39 pm PDT, Apr 20   Laurie York  
2,364 5:05 am PDT, Apr 16   Beau Johnson  
2,363 7:57 pm PDT, Apr 7   Tessa Milner  
2,362 11:09 am PST, Jan 15   Anonymous  
2,361 1:34 am PST, Dec 31   Nicole Woods  
2,360 2:18 pm PST, Nov 12 Mrs. Anonymous  
2,359 8:18 am PDT, Oct 25   Catrin Maier  
2,358 4:16 am PDT, Sep 15   Rachel Sepp  
2,357 7:32 pm PDT, Sep 13   stephanie vitt  
2,356 6:46 am PDT, Sep 12 Mr. James Cook  
2,355 6:34 pm PDT, Sep 11   Tia Cinamon
2,354 5:21 pm PDT, Sep 7   Silky Wylder  
2,353 10:55 am PDT, Sep 3 Mr. Rob Levy  
2,352 9:22 am PDT, Aug 8 Ms. Jayme Murphy  
2,351 4:16 am PDT, Aug 1 Mr. Andy Unsworth  
2,350 2:02 pm PDT, Jul 21 Ms. Carrie Wilkins  
2,349 1:36 pm PDT, Jul 21   greta malkotzoglou  
2,348 8:13 am PDT, Jul 21 Ms. Jenna Rose  
2,347 5:59 pm PDT, Jul 9   Katherine Locke  
2,346 10:39 am PDT, Jun 25 Mr. Robert Mullen  
2,345 4:51 pm PDT, Jun 13   Eve Hosler  
2,344 12:13 pm PDT, Jun 13 Mr. Jon Peters  
2,343 6:47 pm PDT, Jun 9   Jennifer Griffith  
2,342 10:33 am PDT, Jun 1 Ms. Annelies Ooms  
2,341 2:07 pm PDT, May 25   Charlene McCann  
2,340 10:20 pm PDT, May 23 Ms. Anonymous  
2,339 12:06 pm PDT, May 20 Ms. Nicole Rae  
2,338 9:34 pm PDT, May 18   Nicole Winke  
2,337 6:01 pm PDT, May 16 Mrs. Cher Isbell  
2,336 7:45 am PDT, May 16   RIVER FRANCE  
2,335 7:39 am PDT, May 16   Rhonda McDonald  
2,334 5:43 pm PDT, May 15 Mrs. DAPHNE DIMITRIADOU
2,333 4:16 pm PDT, May 15 Mrs. Alecia Dovey  
2,332 4:05 pm PDT, May 15 Mrs. Stephanie Colson  
2,331 12:05 pm PDT, May 15   Ria Smit  
2,330 7:11 am PDT, May 15 Ms. Karen Tallon  
2,329 4:08 am PDT, May 15 Ms. Darlene Williams  
2,328 12:07 pm PDT, Apr 28   Suzie Gordon  
2,327 3:35 pm PDT, Apr 20 Mrs. marlie guin  
2,326 12:59 am PDT, Apr 15   Rhiannon Myst  
2,325 10:05 pm PDT, Apr 12   Faye Willis  
2,324 1:35 pm PDT, Apr 12   Anonymous
2,323 3:06 pm PDT, Mar 31   Crag Donnelly  
2,322 11:19 am PDT, Mar 28 Ms. Angela PIppi  
2,321 3:02 pm PDT, Mar 23   Heather Me  
2,320 1:05 pm PDT, Mar 13 Ms. Genevieve Newman  
2,319 6:10 am PST, Mar 7   M. Rosenthal  
2,318 6:35 pm PST, Mar 6   G. Messina  
2,317 11:12 am PST, Mar 4   Anonymous  
2,316 12:06 pm PST, Mar 3   Holly Roberts  
2,315 11:03 am PST, Mar 2 Ms. Robin Stoller  
2,314 1:50 pm PST, Feb 29 Ms. Anonymous  
2,313 6:15 am PST, Feb 29   Noreen Dickson  
2,312 4:05 am PST, Feb 29 Ms. kirsty buhler  
2,311 12:41 pm PST, Feb 27   Ivana Soldic  
2,310 6:44 pm PST, Feb 26   Marķa del Carmen Bregante  
2,309 4:59 am PST, Feb 26 Mr. Mikis Jahn
2,308 12:24 am PST, Feb 25 Ms. Jennifer Dayton
2,306 12:47 pm PST, Feb 20   Rebecca Madden  
2,305 12:38 pm PST, Feb 19 Ms. Amanda Lugo  
2,304 10:27 am PST, Feb 19   Shannon Lack  
2,303 9:20 am PST, Feb 19   Julia Tawyea  
2,302 4:36 pm PST, Feb 18   Mia Bayus  
2,301 2:13 pm PST, Feb 18   Laura Raymann  

Hold YouTube Accountable For Their Content!

Recently, it was discovered that a video containing frightening scenes of animal abuse was on YouTube from 12/11/06 through 3/17/06. The video had been flagged for graphic violence many times and no action was taken from YouTube to remove it from their site.

The video named "Singing Cat" contained disturbing images of a 16 year-old boy physically abusing a cat in order to make it scream. The video was finally removed, not by YouTube, but by the owner himself when he received too many complaints from users!

We would like to hold YouTube accountable for enforcing their own Codes of Conduct which clearly state that videos containing illegal acts such as animal abuse are not to be posted on their site.


Please sign this petition to ask YouTube why they did not respond to the hundreds of flags they received from it's viewers about this video and hold them accountable for removing videos of animal abuse in the future!

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