Further Reading on YouTube and the ‘Innocence of Muslims’

None of these are necessarily wholesale endorsements but rather, a list of articles that I find worthwhile reading on the topic:

• LA Times: Free speech in the real world
• The Nation‘s Ari Melber: Why YouTube is Wrong to Censor the Anti-Islam Video
• The Guardian‘s Glenn Greenwald: Conservatives, Democrats and the convenience of denouncing free speech
• Access: When “don’t be evil” becomes exceptionally difficult
• Politico: Activists Troubled by White House Call to YouTube
• The Washington Post‘s Fouad Ajami: Why is the Arab world so easily offended?
• The Washington Post: Google’s restrictions on anti-Islam video illustrate Web firms’ control of speech
• Aryeh Neier for EgyptMonocle: Freedom, blasphemy, and violence
• Padraig Reidy for Index on Censorship: A new argument for censorship?
• Issandr Amrani in the UAE’s National: The politics of outrage is still an irresistible temptation
• Bianca Bosker for the Huffington Post: What Google isn’t telling us about the video it’s banned in 5 countries (and counting)
• Tim Wu in the New Republic: When censorship makes sense: How YouTube should police hate speech
• Andy Sellars at the Citizen Media Law Project: The Structural Weakness of Internet Speech