Is Google Becoming the Black Market of the Internet?

Coalition says it needs to do more to scrub illicit videos

Google is learning what all neighborhood cops know. If you shoo away the baddies from one block, they'll just come back after you leave.

The Digital Citizens Alliance, a consumer coalition, is once again calling out Google for profiting from the promotion of illegal activity on YouTube.

Although Google took steps to remove thousands of illegal videos featuring prescription drug purchasing, financial scams like fake IDs, counterfeit consumer goods or pirated content following DCA's first report in June 2013, many of the offending videos are back.

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