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The father of slain television news journalist Alison Parker
blasted Google-owned YouTube for allowing despicable videos of
her murder to proliferate on the popular video platform.

Parker, 24, and her cameraman Adam Ward, 27, were shot by 41-
year-old Vester Lee Flanagan during a live interview in Moneta,
Va. Flanagan, a disgruntled former reporter who later died from
a self-inflicted gunshot wound, recorded the shooting on a GoPro
he was wearing.

The horrific footage went viral on social media, forcing
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to take down videos as other
versions kept getting posted. Parker recently filed a complaint
and request for investigation with the Federal Trade Commission
alleging that YouTube is violating its own terms of service by
hosting videos that show people being murdered.

“The platform’s Terms of Service proclaim that violent content
is not allowed, leading users to reasonably believe that they
will not encounter it,” the complaint says. “In reality, these
videos are commonplace on the platform, and many of them have
remained there for several years.”

"I want to see Google stop profiting from Alison's murder," said
Andy Parker during a Thursday appearance on The Daily Briefing
with Dana Perino. "If complaint stands on its own, I am hoping
this will kickstart effort to revoke or amend Section 230."

Although Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act provides
tech companies with broad immunity in terms of being responsible
for what gets published on their platforms, in recent years
lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have questioned whether it
gives Big Tech too much power.

A spokesperson for YouTube provided Fox News with the following
statement via email: "We specifically prohibit videos that aim
to shock with violence, or accuse victims of public violent
events of being part of a hoax,” she explained, via email. "We
rigorously enforce these policies using a combination of machine-
learning technology and human review and, over the last few
years, we’ve removed thousands of copies of this video for
violating our policies. We will continue to stay vigilant and
improve our policy enforcement.”

Parker said he has been meeting with Republican and Democratic
senators to discuss what can be done about this issue.

"Their response is a complete utter lie," he said. "They've lied
from the get-go."

Parker told Perino that he has been harassed by conspiracy
theorists who label him an "actor."

“The users who perpetuate this type of entertainment continue to
harass Mr. Parker by discounting his suffering as fake,” the
filing says. “Yet to this day, Mr. Parker and his family have
had only one tool available to defend themselves from such
traumatic vitriol and the nightmare of seeing their daughter’s
death: watch these videos one-by-one in order to report them.”

YouTube, which sees over 500 hours of video uploaded every
minute, says that it removed more than 1.3 million videos for
violating its policies in the third quarter of 2019.

"If there is such a thing as bipartisanship left in this
country, this is where we can do it," Parker said. "I'm doing
this for the Sandy Hook families, the Parkland families,
everyone who has been victimized."

Fox News' James Rogers contributed to this report.

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/father-of-journalist-alison-parker- blasts-youtube-over-videos-of-her-murder-circulating

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Illegal alien muslim Barack Hussein Obama seizes on this tragedy
caused by one of his mentally ill homosexual, black racist nuts,
to wave the flags for more gun control.
 

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