Nakoula Basseley Nakoula being taken away by police
The so called anti-Islamic video angering the Muslim world recently will stay on Google for the time being, according to reports in the news media.
Google has rejected a request from the White House last week to reconsider its decision to maintain an online YouTube movie clip which has sparked controversy and anti-American protests in the Middle East and around the world.
The Internet company said it had the video censored in India and Indonesia and blocked it in Egypt and Libya, where U.S. embassies have been stormed by protesters enraged by the depiction of the prophet Muhammad as a fraud and a womanizer.
On Tuesday, the U.S. ambassador in Libya and three Americans died in a siege of the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya.
Google said it was restricting further the clip to comply with local laws and will not respond to political pressure.
“We have restricted access to it in countries where it is illegal, such as India and Indonesia, as well as in Libya and Egypt, given the delicate situation in these two countries,” the company said. “This approach is fully consistent with the principles established for the first time in 2007.”
The White House had asked Google earlier on Friday to reconsider whether the video had violated YouTube’s terms of service.
Google said Wednesday that the video was within their guidelines.
U.S. officials said Friday they were investigating whether the film’s producer, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a 55 year old, Egyptian Coptic Christian living in Southern California, had violated the terms of his probation. Basseley was convicted of bank fraud in 2010 and released from prison on parole in June.
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