The news is significant because the entire music and video industry has been up in arms about YouTube’s slowness to implement filtering.
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VentureBeat hasn’t been able to confirm any of this.
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This is strange because Google earlier had delayed implementation of filtering at YouTube with the suggestion that it was building its own technology — delays that have made media groups like Viacom and News Corp angrier. Our question is: Why now?
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