http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0030009XC5M6
YouTube is apparently ready to put the clamps down on content, and they’re going to use their users to do it. YouTube has encouraged users who find sexually pervasive material to click the red flag button in an effort to clean up their site. Videos that are flagged excessively will be moved down the most watched and most relevant lists, and eventually if they get enough may be taken off of YouTube. YouTube already doesn’t allow pornography, but it seems they are trying to get rid of anything that comes close to retain their image.
While this might be a nice short term marketing move for YouTube, they had better watch themselves in the long term. When companies start to put restrictions on their users, it usually leads to more websites coming up to fill that niche. YouTube could lose users over the long run to other internet video websites. I’m not saying that YouTube should start allowing pornography on their site, just that they should consider options such as making a website for racier material that users could navigate to. The site could have warnings similar to the “you must be over 18 to view this video” warnings they already have.
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They could create a separate youtube for 13 year olds to lie about their age and watch girlies dancing around in bikinis. I mean there will always be sites for that. My opinion is if you don't like the sexual content on youtube then don't watch it and stop complaining.
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