Evening roundup 5.19.08

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Sen. Joe Lieberman asked Google to remove all videos mentioning terrorist groups on YouTube. Google said it took down the ones that violated YouTube’s policies about violence or hate talk. But as for the others, the company asked Lieberman, have you heard of this little thing called freedom of speech?

Google finally launched its much-buzzed-about online service to help people keep track of their personal health.

The SEC filed civil charges against eight former executives of the company then known as AOL Time Warner over an accounting scandal that inflated its revenue from 2000 to 2002.

Bit Player writes about the USC Entertainment Technology Center dropping some copyright knowledge on Hollywood about the right and wrong ways to make shows available online.

Carl Icahn started buying Yahoo shares the first day of trading after Microsoft pulled its bid, PaidContent.org reports after studying a new proxy filing.

-- Chris Gaither