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Youtube Battling 'Porn Day' Attacks

Posted May 23rd, 2009, 09:21 AM by Naughty KP - 4 replies Post to Facebook Bookmark and Share

Hah, I haven't come across anything yet. Has anyone accidentally bumped into some of these results recently?

Originally Posted by Cnet.com
Youtube Battling 'Porn Day' attacks

YouTube was busy deleting porn videos on Wednesday after users of forums at a rival site and an imageboard site declared a "Porn Day" campaign against the popular video service.
The forums at video site eBaum's World and 4chan organized the mass porn "carpet bombing" on YouTube, according to Ars Technica.
YouTube has been removing the videos as fast as it can, but even videos that are removed are still showing up in search results with explicit images in the thumbnails, the report said.
It could take a couple of days for all the explicit results to be removed from the search results, Google spokesman Scott Rubin told Ars Technica.
In a phone interview with CNET News late on Wednesday, Rubin said that in addition to the porn videos were removed as soon as community members alert YouTube to them, certain channels where the posters were bragging about the campaign and listing the videos were being disabled.
"This group of pranksters thought it would be funny to load a bunch of porn to YouTube," he said. "This is an unfortunate, and I think poorly directed, prank. I think our systems are doing really well at removing content that violates the guidelines."
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Old Posted May 23rd, 2009, 01:17 PM

I didn't see any of this... I see stories about this all ove rnow... But I guess they did a good job of fighting it (or the media is just blowing it way out of proportion)...
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Old Posted May 23rd, 2009, 01:21 PM

Man, my sister goes on that site all the time and she is only 12! I dont want her seeing that crap!
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Old Posted May 23rd, 2009, 03:59 PM

Well, I didn't expect /b/ to go through with it! [I've seen stuff about this on 4chan. hurrrr.]

Though I don't use Youtube a lot, I'm actually sort of glad. I don't want my brothers seeing this bull either! They're 12, and 7! I'm glad Youtube managed to fight this off!

Reminds me of the whole "War on Scientology" all over again.
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Old Posted May 23rd, 2009, 04:10 PM

Good job anon
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