YouTube, the world’s largest and most popular video streaming website, is famed for its light, fluffy content: animal videos, comedy and movie trailers. But last week, YouTube made an unusually serious move, announcing the launch of its official “human rights” channel.The channel, which is hosted under the web address youtube.com/humanrights, currently includes a number of videos filmed by activists around the globe, showing everything from Occupy Wall Street protests in New York to violent government raids in Syria.
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