OT: Carpet Bombing Pranksters TARGET YouTube for PornDay

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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.