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In First Day as NBCU CEO, Zucker Blasts YouTube
Newly crowned chief Jeff Zucker took aim at the online video company yesterday for inadequately filtering content posted to the site, even though it has the technology to do so. An article in the Financial Times said that NBC and other major media companies are growing increasingly impatient with negotiations over copyrighted material with YouTube parent Google.
Zucker's expression of frustration with YouTube follows Viacom's demand last Friday that Youtube remove all content from its copyrighted shows (an estimated 100,000 clips).
“YouTube needs to prove that it will implement its filtering technology across its online platform. It’s proven it can do it when it wants to,” Mr Zucker said, referring to the site’s controls to block pornography and hate speech. He added: “They have the capability. The question is whether they have the will.”