OT: Carpet Bombing Pranksters TARGET YouTube for PornDay

[Lisa Kachold]

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On 6/20/09, Technomage <technomage.hawke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lisa Kachold wrote:
>> YouTube is the latest target for pranksters looking to amuse
>> themselves. Today, May 20, has been deemed "Porn Day" by denizens of
>> 4chan and eBaum's World, with an organized group of users from the
>> sites uploading video clips of explicit, adult content en masse in an
>> attempt to overwhelm the search results. In actuality, it appears that
>> content was prematurely uploaded on the afternoon of the 19th. YouTube
>> has already taken some steps to fight back, but it's disturbingly easy
>> to find stuff you really don't want to see, and the uploaders are
>> changing tactics.
>>
>>
> 4chan eh?
>
> Had a run in with some of their admins a couple of years back over
> posting high-res images of U.S. Currency.
>
> Lets just say that 4chan and others like them are immature adults.
> Unfortunately, some of them are far worse than
> that (such as online sexual predators, etc). It is a rather sad state of
> affairs in which we live these days.
>
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