Reflections of society?

During a recent interview on BBC Radio 4, Google's Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, rejected calls from Britain's Conservative Party to impose controls on what is uploaded to the web.

The Conservative Party put YouTube in disfavor since young people can readily access videos of "extreme or callous violence." Though YouTube pulls videos flagged offensive by its user base, it has faced criticism for not acting quickly enough.

Since users are allowed to freely upload whatever they want to the web, Cerf believes sites like YouTube are a reflection of society and should therefore not be centrally controlled.

Instead, Cerf proposed that Google could easily set up filters to keep young people away from questionable content.