G’day,
I’ve had an account with, and published videos on YouTube “almost” since it started. I’ve seen it grow and grow over the years, with things like content filters trying to show copyright owners that the site is serious about protecting content (yet of course totally failing), but what I’d not really noticed until now was just how much porn is on the site!
I guess this may not surprise some, and from a bit of Googling, I see that a lot of people actually use YouTube as a great source of free porn viewing… But to me, this was quite shocking - especially from the perspective of an adult with children.
Of course, kids and internet enabled devices must be monitored closely, because incredibly horribly nasty stuff (be it porn, or other graphic content) is but a mouse click away on the fabulous interconnected web we have been building over the past few decades. But, for some reason, whilst I’m well aware of videos on YouTube being “Not Suitable For Children” due to swearing/etc and otherwise hateful/negative natures, I did not expect there to be bucket loads of porn at my son’s fingertips when he may be looking for the latest Stampycat vid.
This came to a head today when I put in a search term - “Heinz Beans Banned” - to find an ad my wife was rabbiting on about. The results that the search found included 1 video of a very sexually graphic nature. Going back now to the site, and just a few basic searches have shown tonnes more graphic videos, and as mentioned, if you google the subject, there’s a lot more people saying “How do I find free porn on YouTube”, rather than “How come YouTube is drowning in filth”?
(Ok, look, don’t get me wrong… I’m not one of those “Wont somebody think of the children!?” types… But if YouTube spent half the time it does on “content filters” on instead building a sex-filter, I don’t think this would be such a problem.)
The end result is… Holy shit, you really can’t just let your child use the internet without watching them like a hawk!
Cheers
cosmic
