London anti-knife protesters target YouTube


Anti-knife crime activists, with their hands painted red to represent blood, demonstrate outside the UK offices of YouTube in London on May 10, 2019. - Around 20 female anti-knife protesters smeared themselves with fake blood outside YouTube's London offices in protests at the Google company's allegedly lax approach to taking down violent videos. Activists from the newly-created Operation Shutdown campaign group have been targeting social media platforms such as YouTube in a bid to draw attention to the amount of graphic content online. (Photo by Tolga AKMEN / AFP)

LONDON: Anti-knife crime protesters smeared themselves with fake blood outside YouTube’s London offices in protest at the Google company’s alleged promotion of graphic content. 

Britain has very tough gun laws and shootings across the country are relatively rare. 

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