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YouTube’s pedophilia problem: more than 400 channels deleted as advertisers flee over child predators

sudshr47 February 22, 2019

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YouTube is in crisis mode yet again.

On Wednesday night, the online video giant announced it had banned more than 400 channels and disabled comments on tens of millions of videos following a growing YouTube controversy concerning child exploitation. However, many major brands, like Disney, AT&T, Nestle, and Fortnite are jumping ship an halting all YouTube advertising in its wake.

Over the weekend, a YouTube video highlighting child predators’ rampant use of the platform had gone viral. YouTuber Matt Watson posted the video walking users through how a simple YouTube search can easily uncover “soft” pedophilia rings on the video service. Read more…

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‘Billionaire’s son’ Bobby Misner knows YouTube doesn’t like him

sudshr47 February 21, 2019

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Bobby Misner knows people don’t like him, and he is more than OK with it — he’s still raking in views. 

The 23-year-old YouTuber went viral in late 2018 when his video “LIFE of a BILLIONAIRE’S SON” became the subject of popular reaction vloggers. It’s something between a travel vlog and a movie trailer, flaunting a rich kid’s glamorous, privileged life across yachts on tropical beaches and helipads in major cities. Hate him as much as you want, but the video has more than 4.6 million views and Bobby now has 188,000 subscribers. 

Here’s the TL;DR so you don’t have to watch all eight minutes and 31 seconds of millennial flexing: Bobby was born into a financially comfortably family in Australia, but it all changed when he was 15, because his father sold his company for $300 million. From there, he bounced between schools, partied with celebrities, and lived the life of the nouveau riche.  Read more…

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Jimmy Fallon gleefully celebrates reaching a huge YouTube milestone

sudshr47 February 21, 2019

In the battle for the most popular late night show, viewing figures are no longer the only metric. Nowadays there are plenty of ways to measure success, and YouTube is a big one.
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Companies including Nestle, Epic and reportedly Disney suspend YouTube ads over child exploitation concerns

sudshr47 February 21, 2019

Days after a YouTube creator accused the platform of enabling a “soft-core pedophilia ring,” several companies have suspended advertising on the platform, including Nestle, Epic, and reportedly Disney and McDonald’s. Nestle told CNBC that all of its companies in the U.S. have paused advertising on YouTube, while a spokesperson for Epic, maker of the massively […]

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YouTube is ‘actively enabling’ the spread of exploitative content, report finds

sudshr47 February 20, 2019

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Videos featuring exposed genitals and other body parts of children as young as five are pervasive on YouTube and watched and commented on in huge numbers, a Wired report has found.

The videos, some of which generate millions of views, are often accompanied by predatory comments from people sharing the timestamps of when genitals are exposed or when a child does the splits.

Per Wired, some of the videos in question are exploitative in nature, while others are videos of children — sometimes uploaded by the children themselves — doing regular activities such as yoga and gymnastics. Read more…

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YouTube revamps its strike system to include a one-time warning, consistent penalties

sudshr47 February 19, 2019

YouTube today announced a significant change to its strike system – the penalty system used when YouTube’s reviewers identify a video has violated the site’s Community Guidelines. These strikes could be issued against videos containing nudity or sexual content, violent or graphic content, harmful or dangerous content, hateful content, threats, spam, scams, or misleading metadata. […]

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Watch this shredder absolutely destroy some stress balls

sudshr47 February 19, 2019

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When squeezing a stress ball can’t soothe your anxieties, maybe watching one getting shred to pieces will. 

PressTube, a popular YouTube channel dedicated to the destruction of household objects and obscenely intricate “DIY” hacks, posted a video featuring a typical stress-relief tool — the shredding machine. Watch as the mechanical wonder devours everything it touches.

While it is a pretty satisfying sight to behold, it might actually be more stressful to think about how they’re going to clean out all the squishy bits afterwards.   Read more…

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Creators on Instagram and other platforms made nearly $7 billion, study says

sudshr47 February 18, 2019

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Creators in the U.S. are earning more than ever on internet platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and Tumblr — nearly $7 billion, according to a new study.

The sprawling 97-page report by the Re:Create Coalition analyzes how many people in the U.S. are creating online content, where in the country they’re located, and how much they are earning. According to the study, nearly 17 million Americans earned an estimated $6.8 billion across nine internet platforms in 2017.

The Re:Create Coalition, a group which advocates for fair use and balanced copyright law, conducted the research in order to update its previous findings from 2016 on what it calls “America’s New Creative Economy.” The most recent report found a nearly $1 billion increase in earnings and more than 2.4 million additional creators over the one-year period between studies.  Read more…

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YouTube under fire for recommending videos of kids with inappropriate comments

sudshr47 February 18, 2019

More than a year on from a child safety content moderation scandal on YouTube and it takes just a few clicks for the platform’s recommendation algorithms to redirect a search for “bikini haul” videos of adult women towards clips of scantily clad minors engaged in body contorting gymnastics or taking an icebath or ice lolly sucking […]

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Victoria Beckham had a Spice Girls drag performance at her London Fashion Week after party

sudshr47 February 18, 2019

Victoria Beckham has made it quite clear that she’s not planning on reuniting with the four other Spice Girls, but that doesn’t mean she’s totally done with the catchy songs or girl power. 
After Beckham’s London Fashion Week show, her after-par…

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