13 January 2010

Youtube Pr0n Day: The Dog that Didn't Bark

The folks at 4Chan declared last Friday to be Pr0n Friday at Youtube, because they objected to the termination of the account of a user.

Only, Friday rolled around, and nothing happened, not even a falsified death notice involving gay prostitution and meth.

So, what happened? Well, nothing happened. Friday was just like any other day.

So, what did geniuses at Google, Youtube's parent, do to address this?

Did they come up with a technical method to kill all of this? Was there some sort of highly sophisticated algorithm developed to spot nipples, penises, vaginas, and pubic hair?

Well, no, they didn't, what they did was far more basic and more effective: They had some of their employees log into 4chan, and when people bragged about the pr0n posts, they took them down.

No link yet, just online chatter.

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