YouTube
YouTube, a popular internet site that allows users to share videos. The YouTube generation was named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2006 [1]. In October 2006, Youtube was purchased by Google Inc. There was a controversy after people such as Michelle Malkin came out with reports that it censored conservative content, [2]. This led the creation of QubeTV, similar to the creation of Conservapedia by people who believed Wikipedia to be liberal, as well as of the Christian alternative GodTube.
On July 23, 2007, YouTube hosted an interactive debate between the Democratic candidates in the 2008 Presidential Election, in which YouTube users submitted videos of themselves asking questions. A similar debate involving the Republican candidates will follow on September 17.
On August 6, 2007, a group of music publishing companies announced a lawsuit against YouTube for its hosting of copyrighted content without providing proper compensation to the copyright holders when the videos containing the content were viewed. [3]