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Sexually suggestive content: YouTube knows it when it sees it
VentureBeat — YouTube, the largest video-sharing site in the world, is cracking down on sexually suggestive content. It already removes sexually explicit acts and actual pornography, but now it’s going a step further. Videos that the company defines as sexually suggestive will be more heavily restricted based on users’ ages. Even possibly offensive videos that the company still allows on the site will be demoted within the site’s auto-recommendation features to shield them further from sensitive eyes. The Google-owned property is still trying to figure out how to make lots of money, even though it racked up an impressive 344 ...

YouTube Gets Classy: Less Sex, More Symphony
Today @ PC World — YouTube Gets Classy: Less Sex, More Symphony YouTube appears poised for an image makeover, with a pair of announcements this week promising less sex and more symphony. YouTube's new Symphony Orchestra will accomplish the latter, offering classical musicians worldwide a chance to perform in an "online orchestra" packed with some of the industry's biggest names. As for the former, a set of new standards will attempt to keep adult-oriented content away -- or at least make it slightly harder to find. YouTube Symphony Orchestra First up: the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Billed as the world's first collaborative online orchestra, the program promises to ...

YouTube: Cover up and Stop Using Naughty Words
Technologizer — youtubeg YouTube intends to restrict access to content that might be deemed pornographic or profane in a play to broaden its appeal and attract more of the highbrow audience that enjoys watching panda bears sneeze . In a blog post today , the YouTube team explained the impending changes. In the near future, videos will be algorithmically demoted if they contain sexually suggestive content and naughty words. The video site is also taking measures to place an age restriction on risque content. Guidelines on what exactly constitutes “sexually suggestive content,” have been published on the YouTube Web site. Some of those are: * Whether breasts, ...

YouTube Gets a Little Less Sleazy
Technologizer — youtubeg YouTube intends to restrict access to content that might be deemed pornographic or profane in a play to broaden its appeal and attract more of the highbrow audience that enjoys watching panda bears sneeze . In a blog post today , the YouTube team explained the impending changes. In the near future, videos will be algorithmically demoted if they contain sexually suggestive content and naughty words. The video site is also taking measures to place an age restriction on risque content. Guidelines on what exactly constitutes “sexually suggestive content,” have been published on the YouTube Web site. Some of those are: * Whether breasts, ...

YouTube Cracks Down On Rick Rollers, Sexy Videos, And Guys That Put Pictures Of Babes Halfway Through All Their Videos
Podcasting News — YouTube today announced a variety of changes at the site that are designed to help you view content that’s relevant to you and avoid content that isn’t. While YouTube’s focus is on making it harder for uploaders to trick people, the changes they’ve made affect everyone.  Here’s a rundown of the changes, from YouTube’s announcement: Stricter standard for mature content - While videos featuring pornographic images or sex acts are always removed from the site when they’re flagged, we’re tightening the standard for what is considered “sexually suggestive.” ...

Slipping down the slope of YouTube's new sex and language guidelines
L.A. Times Tech Blog — Bad stuff.  (Photo courtesy Flickr user solidstate) In an official blog post Wednesday, YouTube announced that it had enacted a new set of guidelines to sanitize its most viewed lists by cracking down on videos with "profanity" and "sexually suggestive" content.    The changes, ...

YouTube Changes
Google Operating System — ... "Videos featuring sexually explicit content like real sex acts are not allowed. Other content like nudity and dramatized or implied sexual conduct may be considered sexually suggestive depending on whether or not it is intended or designed to arouse viewers," explains a help page. ...

YouTube Template updates
D' Technology Weblog — The YouTube template got an overhaul. The page is now stretched wider, with the former top tabs being more like a single-element navigation bar, the search box is now displayed before playing a video in an embedded player. There’s a parameter that can be added to your embedded videos if you don’t want to display the search box: edit the code and add &showsearch=0 after http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEOID&hl=en&fs=1. YouTube header, now has a new overlay that shows the duration of a video over the thumbnail. YouTube’s blog says that the thumbnails will no ...