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Stupak On YouTube's 'Community Guidelines'
Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., a prominent child safety crusader on Capitol Hill, on Thursday questioned YouTube CEO Chad Hurley about his video-sharing site's so-called "community guidelines," which are intended to keep child pornography and other illicit clips offline. Stupak said sexual predators and pedophiles can trade illegal images and videos "just like baseball cards" and he wanted to make sure that is not happening on YouTube.
"We make it clear that we don’t tolerate that in our system," Hurley responded at the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet hearing. YouTube staffers monitor activity across the site and they also receive tips from members when they spot inappropriate content. "Our users have done a good job of letting us know what doesn’t belong," he said. Those who violate YouTube's terms of use are promptly kicked off and their videos are taken down, Hurley added.
Posted by Andrew on May 10, 2007 01:02 PM | Permalink
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