YouTube exploits scouts

[Mr. Boyce]

I admire Troop 68's productions and recently went on YouTube to see their latest stuff.

 

Here's a surprise for you: type "boy scout" in the YouTube search function and see the pornographic stuff that comes up.

 

I'm sending a letter to YouTube complaining of this; consider doing this as well.

[John-in-KC]

This is a job for the National Council's attorneys. The folks who produce that filth are tagging the flicks. Unless the tags are pulled, the filth will be tied off to Scouting.

[evmori]

Did ya type in "girl scout" & see what ya get? If this is a surprise for ya, then ya need to get out more! This is the ugly side of reality on the internet!

[shortridge]

It's not YouTube. It's the people who put up the videos and create search tags.

 

You can do the same thing with an ordinary Web site - just put in the right keywords, and Google will sniff it out.

 

There's a whole online business sector devoted to "search engine optimization." I don't pretend to understand any of it, but I'm sure other folks here do.(This message has been edited by shortridge)

[acco40]

I forgot the details but at one time something like meritbadge.net got a porn site and meritbadge.com got useful Scout information.

 

Yes, the internet is a terrible thing to waste.

 

[hops_scout]

Acco, it was meritbadge.org that was the porn site. Now all three-- meritbadge.net, meritbadge.com, and meritbadge.org are owned by the same person. Meritbadge.or in fact is now set up as a wiki.

[Gunny2862]

YES, it's the same situation as www. whitehouse.gov vs. www. whitehouse.com , don't go to the second one especially while at work.

 

Metatagging is a very useful but occasionally hard to screen utility of the internet - one way to get around it is to narrow your search a little by adding additional search terms. In the example below "swimsuit, swim, fitness, store" will eliminate a large number but probably not all of the "other" sites. If I want to buy a swimsuit for the wife to support her fitness swimming then I have to be very careful what sites I choose to visit after searching "swimsuit" - as it is also applied to many many "other" kinds of sites rather than just places one can purchase swimsuits.

 

edit to disable links...(This message has been edited by Gunny2862)

[croushorn]

Do search results in YouTube differ with registration?

Im afraid to admit I did this, but just went there and entered boy scouts & girl scouts and found easily a few hundred good wholesome videos before they started veering off topic, not into porn, just goofy kid stuff no longer related to Scouting. But I didnt register, which I wonder if that changes the results of a search. If it does, well, at least theres that registration barrier. If it doesnt, then good for them for keeping that crap out (or is it due to people posting more topical wholesome videos?).

 

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[Gunny2862]

It depends on the sites, if searching on a site, methodology - some always give most popular, some highest number of recent hits, some "random" depending on what that content provider has chosen as his return system.

[John-in-KC]

LSB,

 

Google/YouTube (a subsidiary thereof) restricts ACCESS without registration, not search results.

[Mr. Boyce]

I guess I'm getting tired of the old "that's the way it is" answer when it comes to internet smut. This kind of thing, the wild west approach, I believe, really ends up restricting the potentials of the internet and tend more and more to make internet content irrelevant and dubious.

 

If it's broke, why not fix it? We have the technology. . .

[evmori]

Yes we do have the technology, Mr. Boyce. You do realize you have controls at your fingertips that will allow you to see only what you want to see, don't you?

[Gunny2862]

Mr. Boyce,

There are literally hundreds of internet filters available for use if one chooses to do so. Some are even updated daily - if, one using the better of these types did run across a page that snuck through the filter they can even add it to the "evaluate me" file the filter screeners look at to see if it, in fact, should have been caught by their program.

 

There are even accountability programs should you choose to want to have to explain to a few select friends/accountability partners exactly why you were on a questionable website or on it for so long anyway.

 

Amazingly enough a website known as xxxchurch.com offers both types of programs.

 

Unlike broadcast television one has to click on a link top go to the website that may offend one - although even for the TV I still have the change channel and on/off buttons.

 

I don't think restricting the information available on the net is a good idea - what happens when someone else decides the information you want to see (think any group you may be in that has any opposition) shouldn't be on the net. The use of filters on the subscribers machine seems a much better solution to this issue to me.

 

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[packsaddle]

In case anyone is wondering why this one started up again, a forum member by the name 'kros17' added an advertisement to this existing thread. kros17 only has 2 posts so far and both are ads. I have deleted both of them. If anyone notices this individual posting more ads, PM me and I'll delete those as well.