Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical American cleric who became one of the most recognizable jihadist recruiters on the internet, was killed in a drone strike seven years ago. Yesterday, YouTube finally got around to blocking most of the 70,000 videos he had posted on the site. The New York Times called YouTube's action a "watershed moment" for social media.  I would call it simply "too late." Mashable: Google, Facebook, Twitter, and even Airbnb have long claimed that they're just platforms that bear no responsibility for the material that appears on them. In the post-Russian election interference era, however, some of these platforms have been forced to start accepting slightly more responsibility.  The videos that once populated YouTube ranged from Awlaki's early work as a mainstream imam in the U.S. to his later association with Al Qaeda. Some of his videos were mainstream lectures about Islamic history, but...(Read Full Post)