Google's YouTube may be a fun Web site to visit but the company hopes to make it a little less, ah-hmm, titillating. The company this week announced new rules to better control sexually suggestive content on its popular video-sharing site. Only users claiming to be adults will be able to view sexually themed content, and such content will be banned from the site's most popular pages.
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YouTube users in virus panic [Hackers]
valleywag.com 12/3/2008 — Hasn't YouTube always seemed too good to be true — all those video clips, for free? We must be getting away with something. That's why rumors about a new YouTube virus have spread so far, so fast. Some people viewing YouTube videos have gotten ...
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Hogan's Litvack Discusses Google/Yahoo
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bits.blogs.nytimes.com 12/4/2008 — If you want to follow a series of videos on YouTube, your interest in that topic is broadcast to the entire Internet and there is no way to opt out.
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