YouTube has 3 million Australian users and today the site launched a local version. Every minute more than seven hours of content is uploaded to the site.

But some of it has been controversial including videos showing school bullying or glamorising smoking.

The Federal Government has said it will review the legislation to see if it can control the content put online.

But the company's international manager, Sakina Arsiwala, says the internet should be treated differently to television or print.

"I don't think YouTube is a broadcaster, so I think that's something... we have to clarify," she said.

"We think the value proposition for platforms like YouTube is that everybody gets a voice, so we want to be able to give the common person, the user, regular person on the road a voice.

"If anything we want free speech to be preserved, and that voice to be preserved because it's a very very powerful voice." © 2007 Australian Broadcasting Corporation