Fox New’s Bill O’Reilly talks about a new conservative group’s study that hits at Youtube for having inappropriate content. I’d love to hear your opinions:
O’Reilly talks about how the video sharing site has no way to verify a persons real age. But why pick on just Youtube? How many porn sites are out there. I’ll admit, when I was under age, I was able to access porn. What type of protection does a “Don’t enter unless your 18” button do to prevent children from viewing porn. I would just click it anyway. Has no one heard of XTube? All you have to do for that site is create a fraudulent account, and lie about your age. News Flash O’Reilly…almost all sites are the same. I would agree I don’t think six year olds should be looking at porn either, but the sky isn’t falling. Those good old fashioned nude magazines were/are just as bad. All it takes is a kid to find one of those. A little porn won’t stop the world from turning.
Just because searching for "porn" returns 300,000 hits does not make every one of those videos pornographic.
I have *never* seen any pornographic material on Youtube - it's taken down pretty quickly. Besides - haven't these people heard of porntube or pornhub?
People lying about their age is not a technical problem - it's a social one. Parents must take responsibility for their kids. I agree that placing a button on a web site does nothing to prevent kids seeing porn, but neither does putting magazines in plastic bags.