InternetUK: Web Giants Should Screen User-generated Content (PC World)

PC World - Web giants such as Google and Facebook should pre-screen user content before it goes online, according to a U.K. government...

Web giants such as Google and Facebook should pre-screen user content before it goes online, since offensive material threatens the Internet's overall health, according to a U.K. government report released Thursday. The recommendation comes as social-networking, video-sharing and other Web sites battle problems with cyberbullying, violence and offensive material. Thereport, from the House of Commons' Culture Media and Sport Committee, advocates assigning a government minister to oversee Internet safety as well as other issues such as P-to-P (peer-to-peer) file sharing and targeted advertising systems. Google depends on users to report offensive videos on YouTube and removes bad ones that have been flagged within the hour, the company told the committee. But the committee rejected claims by Google that it was not possible to pre-screen content, even though 10 hours of video are posted on YouTube.com every minute. "We found the arguments put forward by Google/YouTube against their staff undertaking any kind of proactive screening to be unconvincing," the report said. "Major providers such as MySpace have not been deterred from reviewing material posted on their sites. MySpace reported that it reviewed "each image and video that is uploaded to the MySpace server." Committee members traveled to MySpace's U.S. offices and saw "several hundred" people reviewing material... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]

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