It is YouTube's standard practice to remove any material that they receive even the flimsiest threat for because the company wishes to avoid all litigation.
One reason is that companies, in spite of urgings from various bodies set up to examine best corporate practice, rarely give them the raw material or opportunity to do so.
The Conference also agreed that media organisations and professional journalists should establish Codes of Conduct to set and maintain standards for newsroom practice as these would reduce the risk of publication of potentially defamatory material.
As Malkin points out, an illegal Jamaican immigrant by the name of Una James, who is the mother of accused sniper John Malvo and a likely material witness in connection with his case, is on the lamb today because of this INS practice.