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Youtube And Social Responsibility

EDM number 159 in 2007-08, proposed by John Pugh on 08/11/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Anti-social behaviour, Broadcasting, Crime and Internet and cybercrime.

That this House believes that the growth of websites like YouTube which allows uncontrolled uploading of video material represents a significant challenge to civilised society since it can feature acts of bullying, animal cruelty, sadism and activities of an illegal nature hidden behind a cloak of anonymity; thinks that the willingness of site owners to remove such material only when reported is a feeble response to such abuse of the media; calls on site owners to establish volunteer moderators who subsequent to uploading of material can assess whether any content breaches any code of publication defined for the site; notes that such collective moderation is preferable to the type of filtering technology used by Google in China and Taiwan; and observes that allowing a public platform for anonymous, aggressive and undesirable activity, however temporarily, is incompatible with responsible corporate behaviour.

This motion has been signed by a total of 35 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
John Pugh08/11/2007SouthportLiberal DemocratProposed
Bob Russell08/11/2007ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
Rudi Vis12/11/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSeconded
Mark Hunter12/11/2007CheadleLiberal DemocratSeconded
David Taylor12/11/2007North West LeicestershireLabourSeconded
Colin Breed13/11/2007South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSeconded
David Simpson13/11/2007Upper BannDUPSigned
Paul Holmes13/11/2007ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Albert Owen13/11/2007Ynys MLabourSigned
Annette Brooke13/11/2007Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew George13/11/2007St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock13/11/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Bottomley13/11/2007Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Mark Williams13/11/2007CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Janet Dean14/11/2007BurtonLabourSigned
Phil Willis14/11/2007Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen Williams15/11/2007Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Flynn15/11/2007Newport WestLabourSigned
Alan Simpson15/11/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Ann Cryer19/11/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
Michael Jabez Foster19/11/2007Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell19/11/2007Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
John Horam20/11/2007OrpingtonConservativeSigned
David Anderson20/11/2007BlaydonLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins21/11/2007TamworthLabourSigned
John Leech21/11/2007Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington22/11/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Richard Younger-Ross22/11/2007TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
John Battle22/11/2007Leeds WestLabourSigned
Jennifer Willott26/11/2007Cardiff CentralLiberal DemocratSigned
Nick Harvey03/12/2007North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell11/12/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Robert Wareing18/12/2007Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Vincent Cable07/01/2008TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Eddie McGrady21/04/2008South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned

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