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Video Boom = Concern
Popular websites such as MySpace, YouTube, Yahoo, Google and soon also Microsoft’s MSN are featuring user-generated videos that quickly have become a phenomenal form of entertainment. YouTube, the leading video site that helped catapult the genre with its public launch in December, attracted more than 20 million visitors in May. The company says it averages 50,000 new video uploads per day.
The explosion in online video-sharing sites, where clips of any nature can be easily uploaded for the world to see, has become the latest challenge for parents trying to protect their children and for websites coping with obscene submittals.
What do you think? I think that with the internet, whether on free homemade videos, blogs, or just regular website, it’s impossible to ward obscenities off children and we’ve know that for a while, so why are they fussing? Do they have to fuss every time a new technology emerges?
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July 11th, 2006 at 7:58 am
They’re fussing because before YouTube and Co. the websites that did put questionable material online could be pinpointed easily (porn & such)while now with this sweeping revolution of video sharing this sort of content can and does exist on supposedly safe sites, or so parents want to believe. That’s why it’s harder to protect children; it’s all about accessibility. Objectionable content is at everyone’s finrgertips now, including those U-13.
July 11th, 2006 at 8:19 am
the same ancient argument when Radio, TV, movies, Sat TV and Internet came out… everyone is concerned with the “EVIL” that will come thru this “new satanic technology”… it will be faced with resistance in the beginning, but the truth shall prevail.
July 11th, 2006 at 11:07 am
Oh well, if you put it that way. Still though, not many people get to upload videos of whatever content on TV,radio, or satellite for free, eh? It’s still interesting to see where technology would take us, however.
July 12th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
youtube is addictive, i admit that :p