Porn / Nude videos in youtube. Even thumbnail contains nudity !
I have been using youtube for quite some time. Today as I was browsing the most popular videos today, I bumped into this thumbnail which was a nude snapshot of some asian video (One user tells me its Mandarin) . And the video was not even protected by a login.
The link to the thumbnail is:
http://sjl-static8.sjl.youtube.com/vi/lnd2NTyyHug/2.jpg
And once I clicked to check out the video, it was porn !! Complete 5 to 6 minutes of porn starting with a 30 second introduction in an Asian language.
The link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnd2NTyyHug
[I do not want to host nudity on my blog, so not linking to it]
In this age of automated websites, one can always argue that monitoring such content is not possible, but when you are in the top 20 websites of the world, and with soooo many kids viewing your site everyday, you should be extra cautious on whats being shown on your website. I found it very surprising how youtube was allowing that. Youtube could find it tough to handle copyright issues especially if the videos are from a non US country, but porn is porn. It should not be tough to prevent that. What do you say ?
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January 3rd, 2007 at 2:48 pm
The video was REMOVED by youtube for TERMS OF USE VIOLATION.
In other words, some moron posted a video that was not supposed to be posted to their site, AND THEY REMOVED IT.