YouTube's Search Autofill Surfaced Disturbing Child Sex Results (buzzfeed.com)

Several users are reporting that they found YouTube autocompleting search queries starting with 'how to have' with disturbing suggestions, including 's*x with your kids' over the weekend. From a report: A YouTube spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that the matter is still under investigation. "Earlier today our teams were alerted to this awful autocomplete result and we worked to quickly remove it," the company said. "We are investigating this matter to determine what was behind the appearance of this autocompletion." We tried the same query on YouTube less than an hour before publication of this story, and we found "how to have s*x in school," and "how to have s*x with kids" were still surfacing in the results.

Comments

Here come the torches and pitchforks

[Anonymous Coward]

People want what they want. Kids like sex too.

Re:Most likely it's just for fun

[RedK]

When a search engine proposes that phrase after having type only "How to have", it is quite disturbing. Dunno why you're brushing it off. Especially considering the many other "How to have" options :

"How to have a merry christmas"
"How to have a good first date"
"How to have a successful job interview"
"How to have a great life"
"How to have Baron_Yam arrested for Pedo apology"

Obviously, Youtube and Google have come to rely way too much on "The Algorythm", and as many have pointed out, they are doing such a great job demonitizing and banning conservative voices, maybe they should apply that same effort to their massive Youtube Kid's problem, and this latest string of barely disguised pedophilia.

Sex

[stealth_finger]

Say it with me now. SEX! It's a thing, it exists, it's not a dirty word. Ok tutorials on youtube probably ain't great but why can't/won't TFA say the word sex. It's like they're talking about such forbidden fruit it's no wonder the kids end up so messed up, pretend it doesn't exist til they're 18 and then expect them to know all about it.