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Brands Pull YouTube Ads Over Images of Children (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Lidl, Cadbury maker Mondelez, Mars and other companies have pulled advertising from YouTube after the Times newspaper found the video sharing site was showing clips of scantily clad children alongside the ads of major brands. Comments from hundreds of pedophiles were posted alongside the videos, which appeared to have been uploaded by the children themselves, according to a Times investigation. One clip of a pre-teenage girl in a nightie drew 6.5 million views. The paper said YouTube, a unit of Alphabet subsidiary Google, had allowed sexualized imagery of children to be easily searchable and not lived up to promises to better monitor and police its services to protect children. In response, a YouTube spokesman said: "There shouldn't be any ads running on this content and we are working urgently to fix this."
So it is confirmed that the content is not a problem? Interesting policies youtube.
Automated algorithms really just highlight that fact.
How else does Faccebook end up selling ads for the term "Jew Hater"?
And then tech companies just say "oh noes, it wasn't us, it was teh algorithm which did the naughty". Sorry, you built it, you own it, you profit it, you're legally responsible for it.
Starts witchhunt against superior competitor it cannot compete anymore.
This is news? For real?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Google's plan to advertise anything, anywhere, anytime is backfiring.
They're too busy demonetizing second amendment channels to realize that their kiddie porn industry is blooming.
https://youtu.be/H0Atpwo_AuY
I have five kids. I don't want my young daughters thinking their bodies are sex objects. I don't want them worrying about always covering up. I can't control what other people think and I don't think it matters what thoughts other people have in their heads. What I do care about is what other people say or do. So if my daughters upload something where they are having fun and they happen to also be in pajamas or their bathing suits I don't want someone saying they are being pornographic and shouldn't post it. I don't want my daughters actions or activities to be restricted because some people are worried about what other people are thinking. That's just messed up.
Age of consent is irrelevant. There are plenty of jurisdictions where it is legal for a person to have sex, but illegal for the same person to take a nude selfie.
The difference is that the sex does not require technology.
Speak for yourself.
You are welcome on my lawn.
This allergic reaction gives incentive to murder children who have already been abused, since the sentences are about the same but the murder makes the pedo less likely to be caught. It keeps pedophiles from seeking help before they abuse, since no psychiatrist can be trusted. It encourages further degradation of the constitution, as any abuse is considered acceptable to stop a pedophile. It constitutes a de-facto thought crime. It encourages shortcuts in logic. It prevents scientific arguments about how to best help children. It encourages crime in prison. And it causes more harm to children than it prevents. End the hysteria. End it now.
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
No, it isn't. For example a parent might think that their 12 year old is old enough to pose for Penthouse. As you can imagine now that you think about it further, it doesn't work the way you think it does.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
I do not know why it is necessary to politicize something like this. There are plenty terrible things happening from both sides of the isle. People, in general, are terrible.
Life is too short and too important to { take seriously | use windows }.
At the end of the 19th and turn of the 20th century it was still common for 12 year old girls to get married and even get pregnant in the USA.
I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams
Yes, and in the middle ages, nobles could kill serfs on a whim - luckily things have moved on a bit since then. Just because you like to spend your time trying to defend pedophiles doesn't mean others have to agree.
That is all.
Age of consent is irrelevant. There are plenty of jurisdictions where it is legal for a person to have sex, but illegal for the same person to take a nude selfie.
The difference is that the sex does not require technology.
"Indiana court rules that sex with 16-year-olds is fine, but sexting them is not" https://nypost.com/2017/10/04/...
I was reading just the other week on the BBC that the world leader in child brides is in fact the USA, where marriage under 16 is still common place.
from media looking to stir up controversy. The advertisers need Youtube more than Youtube needs them. But unfortunately Google themselves sympathize with censorship and pearlclutching so they go along with it.
Old media trying to murder new media .
They don't give a single fuck. People have been complaining about this for years, they only pretend to care now because it made news. They literally have given zero fucks about this.
I saw something about that elsewhere and I get the feeling their talking about absolute numbers of child brides, not rates. The USA and of course other very populous countries end up with high absolute numbers because there are just so many people. I find it incredibly unlikely that the USA is anywhere near the rates that UNICEF identifies for other less developed parts of the world, like 4 in 10 for sub-Saharan Africa.
Digging into the numbers I can find online one study found 167k marriages involving children in the USA between 2000 and 2010. The CDC says the average year in the USA results in 2,140,272 marriages, though I didn't see what years they were using for that number. Anyways the math is pretty easy, 16,700 child marriages a year divided by 2,000,000 marriages a year (rounding down considerably to be on the safe side) gives us 0.835% of marriages in the USA involving a child. I'll grant you that is a higher number than I would have thought, and it certainly warrants our attention as a society. It is, however, considerably less panic inducing than touting the line that child marriage is common place or that the USA is the world leader in child brides.