Journal Misou's Journal: YouTube - abused by the Mexican Drug Cartel

YouTube weaknesses recently became clear it was used for "a bloody war between rival Mexican drug gangs ... where two competing cartels taunt each other with blood-soaked slideshows and films of their murder victims."

This war started in January this year just now cost another victim:

"The video - posted by "matazetaregio" - opened with the message "Do something for your country, kill a Zeta!" and continued to show "a man in his underwear tied to a chair with a 'Z' and the message 'Welcome, kill women and children. Continue Ostion' written on his chest". ...

The man was seen being "interrogated" about the 6 February deaths of "five police officers and two secretaries in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco". More than a dozen men assaulted two police stations and the authorities are investigating the possibility than some of the victims were connected to drug cartels and the killings were a "settling of scores" between gangs.

The video continued to show the man beaten into confessing he participated in the Acapulco killings, at which point he is strangled by "twisting a cord tied to metal rods until the pressure cuts through his neck".

So much for the beauty of anonymous "social networking" places.

Sources:
The Register, 13 Feb 07
The Register, 02 Apr 07
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