Mexico president lambasts YouTube after company edits video ...

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador criticised YouTube on Sunday night (Feb 25) after the tech company removed the video of a news conference in which the leader revealed the private telephone number of the New York Times' Mexico bureau chief. The platform said the video had violated their policies on harassment and cyberbullying. It later republished an edited version without the reporter's private information. In response, Lopez Obrador accused the platform of censorship and said it was acting with an overbearing and authoritarian attitude. The message was accompanied by a picture of the Statue of Liberty, which he said had become an "empty symbol." YouTube did not immediately respond to a request for comment. On Thursday, Lopez Obrador read aloud a letter from the Times requesting comment on a story reporters were preparing about a shelved US gover...