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Article

2 Jul 2007

Author:
Bryan Zandberg, The Tyee [Canada]

Telus Cleanses Image on YouTube [Canada]

…Telus ordered YouTube to take down at least 23 videos posted to the site. Each short movie…documented instances of the company's rocky labour relations…YouTube's owners complied and took the videos off-line…[U]nion activists…argue much of the footage never belonged to Telus…Internet free speech advocates…[see] the telecom giant…[as] manipulating the web for anti-union purposes...[C]ompany spokesperson Jim Johannsson [said] "There were videos internal to Telus that were posted on the site without Telus's permission." [also refers to AFI International Group]