August 28, 2007
MPs seek to tackle gang videos on web
MPs are ready to begin a parliamentary inquiry into how to prevent young people gaining access to violent video clips, such as those that glamorise gang and gun culture, on internet sites such as YouTube. [via The Telegraph]
"John Whittingdale, the chairman of the cross-party Commons culture, media and sport select committee said he was "very interested" in an investigation into how to limit access to unsuitable material across the "new media".
Concern about the way gangs promote themselves by placing violent video clips - including scenes with guns -on the internet has grown since the shooting of Rhys Jones in Croxteth.
Two local gangs had placed clips on the internet that glorified their activities. Last weekend London gangs used the internet to warn rivals of trouble that they would cause at the Notting Hill Carnival."
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