Innocence offline: anti-Islam video takedown.

AuthorFeeney, Matthew
PositionCitings - Brief article

IN FEBRUARY, a U.S. appeals court ordered in a 2-1 ruling that Google remove the trailer for the film Innocence of Muslims from YouTube.

The controversial trailer, which depicts the prophet Muhammad as a violent child molester, sparked riots across the globe and was initially mistakenly cited as the cause of the September 2012 riot in Benghazi that resulted in the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American citizens.

But it was not the controversial nature of the trailer that prompted the court to order Google to remove it from YouTube. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit issued the order after one of the actors in the film, Cindy Lee Garcia, claimed that she had suffered "irreparable harm" for appearing in the project and that she had...

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