Google Joins Movement To Stamp Out Obscene Images Of Children

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By teaming up with other players, Google hopes to harm predators by preventing them from accessing and distributing obscene images of children. Search giant Google is taking its role as a leading Internet playing seriously by joining the fight against child pornography.

The company has followed in the footsteps of other online players like AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo by becoming part of the Technology Coalition funded by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and its sister agency the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC).

Google Joins Movement To Stamp Out Obscene Images Of Children [pcpro.co.uk]

[hannamyluv]

Not to point out anything bad about G (I know how we hate that), but does it mean anything when they are the last of the majors to come to the table on this and they get front page notice?

So is that a PR release from Google making them look like they are the life of the party when actually they got there after the party was in full swing.

Don't get me wrong, I am glad they stepped up, but others stepped up a whole lot faster.
[technewsworld.com...]

[Bewenched]

Umm .. still doesn't help the fact that my daughter got exposed to p0rn on google videos when she was looking for videos of funny cats. That one area is still not safe even under safe browsing mode.

[Adam_Lasnik]

Bewenched,

This help page might be of interest:

Does Google Video have a SafeSearch feature?

At this time, Google Video does not offer a SafeSearch feature to allow users to block most material that would be inappropriate for certain audiences. We're working hard on this and hope to have this feature soon.

Pornographic or obscene content is not allowed on Google Video and is a violation of our Program Policies. We perform a preliminary review of videos for compliance with respect to these policies. If you see something on Google Video which is pornographic or obscene, or which violates our Program Policies please let us know.

This page:
[video.google.com...]
includes links to contact Google regarding these issues.

Hope this helps.

DISCLAIMER: I work for Google, but am not associated with the Video team.

[bcolflesh]

This could all be cleared up with a fetish filter - just don't include 'children' in the dropdown. Also, please have exclusion logic built-in so we can use:

-fat -ugly

This would be really helpful... uh, for my friend...

[Bluepixel]

Sure, but when brazilian authorities asked google Brazil for data of offending persons (posting child porn on orkut.com), they didn't deliver the data.

[itwire.com.au...]

[mack]

Anythign that helps prevent child exploitation has to be a good thing.. Well done Google for doing the right thing. A little late, but still very welcome.

Mack.

[Rugles]

I am with Mack on this one. Anything they do is a positive move in the right direction.

[hannamyluv]

Anything they do is a positive move in the right direction.

Oh certainly, the more the better.

I just have a problem with the article (and this being on the home page). Yahoo or MSN could cure world hunger and no one would notice. Google could then show up with one truckload of food and the media would make it seem that Google had done it all.

[Bewenched]

Adam_Lasnik:
Does Google Video have a SafeSearch feature?

At this time, Google Video does not offer a SafeSearch feature to allow users to block most material that would be inappropriate for certain audiences. We're working hard on this and hope to have this feature soon.

Pornographic or obscene content is not allowed on Google Video and is a violation of our Program Policies. We perform a preliminary review of videos for compliance with respect to these policies. If you see something on Google Video which is pornographic or obscene, or which violates our Program Policies please let

The main problem I see with google video is that it allows anyone to put a tag on any video. My daughter (age 5) was happily looking at videos of "talking cats" but some perv put a "tag" on one of them that she clicked on.

She cannot read and from looking at the list that pulled up originally when we searched we thought it was fine and her computer is in my office so I could keep an eye on her.

I do think there should be a direct link on each video page like "REPORT THIS VIDEO" I didn't find such a link when this happened with my daughter and I was frantically trying to make it stop that I literally unplugged the computer.

I've seen this type of indecent tag on other Google Video pages including Matt Cutt's own. One of his videos had "gay pr0n" tagged on it.

[danny]

Self-tagging is hardly a workable solution. One person's porn is another's erotica is another's G-rated movie... There are movies that have been banned in Australia that were rated 12+ in France, for example.

[rohitj]

correction hannamyluv, it seems your logic only applies to webmasterworld readers, as there was indeed significant press when yahoo came to the table. Not to mention there's a whole lot more riding on this than good PR value, think attracting more deep-pocket advertisers == $$.

[hannamyluv]

I never said that there wasn't coverage by the media when Yahoo joined, I said that when Google joins/does anything, the media then acts as if Google did it all/first.

That article that is linked to in the first post reads more like it was written by Google's public relations department than by a supposed reporter. I have problems with news like that.

The news' job is to report news, not write Google's press releases so that G can make more money.