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Tighten up your adult spam filters Google/YouTube!
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As things are right now, she'll never have access to *anything* when she's unsupervised. We're going to have to track her via satellite using the implant she'll get - and will download all sights/sounds and screen her daily life to make sure she's not getting into things she shouldn't!
Censorship is a slippery slope - what one person may be horrified by as "adult content" is just harmless fun to others. In Europe we tend to be a bit more laid back about that sort of thing and are often surprised by the adverse reaction from Americans. Take for instance the famous Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" at the super bowl - to me that was pretty tame harmless stuff. A bit sad and obviously staged to try and revitalise a sagging career (sagging being the operative word unfortunately). I was amazed by the reaction in the states, most UK children see far worse than that every time they go to the beach.
In my opinion it is better to let your kids see this sort of thing in a supervised environment and not make a big thing about it. Then perhaps they will grow up thinking "so what!" rather than thinking "I'm not allowed to see this so it must be good".
I was amazed by the reaction in the states, most UK children see far worse than that every time they go to the beach.
or open a newspaper
i don't think we want to start a whole political debate here, TOS
"I'm not allowed to see this so it must be good".
Or how about, "I don't have the frontal lobe brain development or ability to reason in order to make good decisions yet, so it's a good thing my parents are shepherding me through my childhood."
Censorship is a slippery slope
I'm not talking about censorship. I'm taking about parenting. :)
Incidentally, there's a very benign word triggering adult videos playing with some Spring religious holiday videos. Yes, they do need to update and tighten up on filtered words.
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Censorship is a slippery slope - what one person may be horrified by as "adult content" is just harmless fun to others.
[edited by: Marcia at 6:30 am (utc) on Mar. 28, 2008]
Censorship is on a slippery slope.and
In my opinion it is better to let your kids see this sort of thing in a supervised environment and not make a big thing about it.
Why?
Janet Jackson's boob is not the problem here. The problem is the thousands of evil people who deliberately target children through the Internet or who send out porn knowing full well that much of it is going to arrive in kid's email boxes.
IMHO censorship is on a slippery slope but it's sliding the wrong way.
Censorship is a slippery slope - what one person may be horrified by as "adult content" is just harmless fun to others. In Europe we tend to be a bit more laid back about that sort of thing and are often surprised by the adverse reaction from Americans. Take for instance the famous Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" at the super bowl - to me that was pretty tame harmless stuff. A bit sad and obviously staged to try and revitalise a sagging career (sagging being the operative word unfortunately). I was amazed by the reaction in the states, most UK children see far worse than that every time they go to the beach.
BTW, the starter of this thread is not from the US of A. :)
BTW, the starter of this thread is not from the US of A. :)
That worked for me, but I understand that it might not work for others.
I'm neither knocking nor applauding your views on life or child rearing. Simply stating that no one expected to see the nasty Ms. Jackson's tatas during Superbowl halftime. It appears engine didn't expect to see certain videos when he was searching for others.
Now, I've had a real long day at the office. The family is out of town. I'm gonna take a nap. Just to let you know, I expect my wife to call to check up on me just about the time I fall asleep. :)
Wait a minute. Wife just called. I'm expecting a full nap.
Back OT - my point is that Youtube/Google's system was letting through irrelevent and inappropriate content. There was no connection between what I was watching and what was being displayed in the related videos, no matter the actual subject.
Kids could have seen that, without searching for it, unsupervised or not. Think about it, who knows what it could have shown!
The spammers were having a field day!
My subject title still stands.
Kids could have seen that, without searching for it, unsupervised or not.
Do you think that Google really cares about this? I think that the pursuit of profit is pushing issues like this down their agenda but then that's capitalism.
(Am I getting too political?)
If they don't care, it's up to individuals to make their views known, and to act as they see fit: Vote with your feet, don't buy, don't click, etc., it's up to you.
I believe they do care.
They'll care when they're losing more money than they're making.
