Sadiq Khan desires YouTube to evacuate 'fierce group culture recordings'

Four "brutal recordings" posted on YouTube have not been expelled regardless of solicitations from police, the Mayor of London says.

Sadiq Khan said the online firm had declined to bring down the blade recordings that were first detailed in December.

Mr Khan said the recordings, demonstrating unmistakable London areas, "were a stunning case of the glamorisation of pack culture".

YouTube said it couldn't remark on singular cases however said it was in contact with the police on this issue.

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Image captionThe Mayor is demanding a tougher stance from internet giants on videos encouraging knife crime
The recordings, which have been seen more than 356,000 times, indicates posses undermining rivals with a "Rambo cut" while others make shooting hand signs to a soundtrack of fierce rap. 
A YouTube representative said the site disallows recordings "that are harsh or that advance viciousness." 
"We work intimately with associations like the Metropolitan police to comprehend nearby setting and particularly, so we can comprehend where masterful articulation grows into genuine dangers." 

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Image captionYouTube's rules say videos containing threats, harassment and intimidation are taken very seriously
Weapon and blade wrongdoing in the capital have expanded by 42% and 24% in the course of the most recent year, as indicated by late police figures. 
Sadiq Khan stated: "Online networking and the web can be utilized to excite pressures and raise brutality snappier than at any other time. 
"Web goliaths have arrangements set up around savage substance, however they don't go sufficiently far." 
Claire Hubberstey, CEO of Safer London, stated: "There are some exceedingly unsafe, broadly saw movies online that represent a genuine danger to youngsters, both commending savagery and terrorizing and representing a huge hazard to the individuals who show up in them." 
Youtube said it was focused on proceeding and enhancing its work on this issue and making the site "a threatening space for the individuals who look to do hurt."