YouTube: Porn view?
By Techgirl

Before Google took over YouTube, the video sharing site was like the Wild West or some districts of my state Bihar where anything goes.  Their policy was ‘upload and be dammed’.  While YouTube is a brilliant idea and has many fantastic videos, there is a darker element to it.  Pornography masquerading as art, anonymous venomous criticism passing off as healthy democracy, pirated music being presented as ‘free expression’.  You get the idea.

Google brought some discipline to YouTube.  Piracy is being checked if someone complains.  Every senior Google manager tells the media that YouTube is not for pornography or sexually explicit content.

But the ground realities are that sex still sells.  Last year, when the European Union made its debut on YouTube, it uploaded some clips from European adult cinema to YouTube.  One adult European Union video showing sex acts resulted in 20 thousand hits a day.  And this is when most European countries have a more liberal attitude than conservative countries like China and India.

India’s leading website for startups and business, Pluggd.in, is reporting that if you search for Indian in YouTube, you are offered soft and hard porn under YouTube headings of ‘sextapes’ and ‘sexual intercourse live’.

Where is Shiv Sena when you really need them?  Once Indian super lawyer and morals crusader Naavi gets porn cartoon character Savita Bhabhi banned, we should request him to turn his attention to the adult videos on YouTube accessible to kids.   While I am no prude when it comes to free choice by informed adults, anything which can be freely and easily seen by our children should have filters.

Techgoss note:  Techgirl is a senior Tech journalist who reports on the IT, KPO and KPO Sectors for a leading media house.  In her spare time, she dabbles in satire in her blog
http://techgirltalk.blogspot.com/