US – Study by Parents Television Council Finds YouTube Filtering Lacking: “(Filtering Facts)
Parents Television Council has just released a study of YouTube’s filtering. extremely graphic content and harsh profanity are just a click away for kids entering seemingly innocent search terms on YouTube. The PTC’s study not only analyzes content in 280 of the most popular YouTube videos, but also takes into account the text commentary and advertisements that were available alongside the videos. The 20 highest-ranked YouTube videos from each of the site’s most popular search terms yielded an extraordinary amount of graphic and adult-themed content.
David Burt, who runs the Filtering Facts blog, comes to simlar conclusions. He found video clips already tagged by YouTube as adult content – but YouTube’s filter doesn’t catch them. This compares unfavourably with Google text search and Google image search using ‘strict filtering’.”

(Via QuickLinks Update.)