URL: http://www.thinkandask.com/2006/022706-youtube.html
Press date: 27 February
2006
Title: TA: Got a Fetish? Google YouTube
Fetish Videos Land on Family Entertainment Website 'You Tube' Splashing
into fountains or pools on a whim as lovers or children do, or removing
your shoes in public may not seem reason enough to grab a video camera
and click 'record,' unless the filmmaker's eye has a motive.
To some viewers, the ever cliche "children playing in water on a hot
day" scene is fair game for fetish websites. Same too for a man resting
his 'dogs' on a public park bench after a hard day's work...voyeurs are
watching with mini-cams rolling in order to share your experience with
their communities online.
You may be doing nothing sexual or erotic...but to the filmmaker's
community...your actions tap into his or her sexual fetish.
The United States government is subjecting websites, which specifically
host pornographic content, to new decency rules handed down by the
Department of Justice. The government's efforts against website
pornography are aimed at: Protecting under-aged viewers from both
seeing the content and from being seen in the content. Their next aim
was the fetish community.
The White House went so far as demanding from search engine company
Google Inc., to turn over keyword searches to federal agents in order
to find sexually explicit websites they may have missed with standard
words of sexual play. Google declined the White House's request.
But there is more to sexually explicit material than the "obvious" on
or offline, which is what the White House was attempting to pin-down.
And the new venue for fetish pornography is only a click away from the
family's home computer...for free.
Website 'You Tube,' youtube.com,
launched one year ago in February 2005 as a consumer media company for
which anyone could share videos using a simple, compressed format
online. YouTube says it serves up 15 million videos each day and
registered users upload 20,000 videos per day.
"YouTube also reserves the right to decide whether content or a user
submission is appropriate and complies with these Terms of
Service...such as, but not limited to, pornography, obscene or
defamatory material."
---You Tube Policy Statement