Web giants such as Google and Facebook should pre-screen user content before it goes online, since offensive material threatens the Internet's overall health, according to a U.K. government report released Thursday. The recommendation comes as social-networking, video-sharing and other Web sites battle problems with cyberbullying, violence and offensive material.Thereport, from the House of Commons' Culture Media and Sport Committee, advocates assigning a government minister to oversee Internet safety as well as other issues such as P-to-P (peer-to-peer) file sharing and targeted advertising systems. Google depends on users to report offensive videos on YouTube and removes bad ones that have been flagged within the hour, the company told the committee.
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here's why....
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/stor...5001021,00.html
When I watched V for Vendetta I thought U.K. was a poor choice, but articles like this and some other ones I read regarding U.K. make me think otherwise.
Also a good way to burn more money and cause frustration among users, resulting in chaotic violence on the streets.
In present times we demand everything high-speed or instantaneous
For example there was a case of a woman who was drugged and raped and then the video of it was posted on Youtube for all to see.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article831344.ece
Youtube/Google believe they are above the law.
Its about time the government finally got tough on them.
It is not realistic to suggest this, if they tried to implement this its more likely that video sites would change how they operate to bypass the law somehow.
It is realistic to blame the users - after all they have agreed a Terms or Use... and they have lied. Imagine if every company had to check the information to everything you submitted to them!
I agree, they should prescreen user profiles being put up on myspace and face book to make sure there is no bad content. Better yet, why don't they just prescreen everything that goes up on the internet, that way the internet could be a nice safe haven for kids and animals.... YAY!
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I agree, they should prescreen user profiles being put up on myspace and face book to make sure there is no bad content. Better yet, why don't they just prescreen everything that goes up on the internet, that way the internet could be a nice safe haven for kids and animals.... YAY!
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i agree they should prescreen everything that goes up on the internet, that way the internet could be a nice safe haven a for kids and other.
Parents would love that. Anything that keeps them from having to actually watch what their children get into, ya know?
who needs free speech and free expression when morals is in question right?
I seriously hope you were kidding
Why? Google/youtube are one of the richest companies in the world, they could have massive warehouses full of staff just pre-screening the clips. Hell I could pre-screen a 1000 per hour easy. Its not rocket science.
oh "The Dark knight" uploaded by a 12 year old in Belgium "DENY CLIP!"
Easy!
Why? Google/youtube are one of the richest companies in the world, they could have massive warehouses full of staff just pre-screening the clips. Hell I could pre-screen a 1000 per hour easy. Its not rocket science.
oh "The Dark knight" uploaded by a 12 year old in Belgium "DENY CLIP!"
Easy!
YouTube is already unprofitable; Google classes the YT revenue as "immaterial".
Around 10 hours worth of material is uploaded every minute. So you'd need probably 1000 staff (after all, humans are inefficient plus need breaks... health and safety and all that) working at all times.
At £5.52 an hour (minimum wage), that amounts to £3,974,400 a month. £4 million! Then you add on the costs of the actual building, heating, lighting, electricity, computer equipment, furniture, managerial staff, maintenance staff, extra HR costs, bandwidth costs... it's just completely and utterly economically unviable.
Why? Google/youtube are one of the richest companies in the world, they could have massive warehouses full of staff just pre-screening the clips. Hell I could pre-screen a 1000 per hour easy. Its not rocket science.
oh "The Dark knight" uploaded by a 12 year old in Belgium "DENY CLIP!"
Easy!
But if you're going to police Google, you also have to police every other site on the internet. Just because Google makes millions doesn't mean they are the only ones that this rule applies to. What about small non-profit forums? You can't expect them to pay staff to screen every single post can you?
In real life these excuses these internet companies use don't work, I couldn't just keep ignoring drug use in my nightclub and then just say to the police well "theres just too many people taking the drugs so I couldn't keep up with what they were all doing. its their fault not mine".
They'd say "tough thats the law if you can't keep this club drug free then you will have your license removed" and they'd have me shut down by the end of the week.
Just think for instance if Neowin had every post screened before allowing it to go through. It would take so much time that many posts wouldn't even go through to begin with! Website owners would be dead tired of getting on just to allow posts to flow through. The site would just be sluggish and eventually would lose its popularity. And that's just Neowin by itself, not including the tons of other sites.
Your night club analogy doesn't exactly fit at all either.
Last edited by Dakkaroth on 01 Aug 2008 - 00:15
Can you guys see why the net is impossible to screen? The only thing governments can do is put firewalls and filters. They always have wholes and when it comes to good videos verses bad videos they can't do a thing.
Now for something smaller. Myspace. 50 million users. Myspace has what, a dozen staffers? First they would need to change it from a free site to subscription based, just to pay for the thousands of screeners. Then, that 50 million userbase with go down to just about ZERO. Myspace would fold up and some other site not so regulated would rise in it's place.
Censoring the net is futile. All it will do is get people mad.
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