{"id":190044,"date":"2010-01-13T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/13\/youtube-pr0n-day-the-dog-that-didnt-bark\/"},"modified":"2010-01-13T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T17:22:00","slug":"youtube-pr0n-day-the-dog-that-didnt-bark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/13\/youtube-pr0n-day-the-dog-that-didnt-bark\/","title":{"rendered":"Youtube Pr0n Day: The Dog that Didn&#8217;t Bark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/4chan\">4Chan<\/a> declared last Friday to be Pr0n Friday at Youtube, because they o<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/pda\/2010\/jan\/06\/youtube-porn-attack-4chan-lukeywes1234\">bjected to the termination of the account of a user<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Only, Friday rolled around, and nothing happened, not even a <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/there-can-only-be-one.html\">falsified death notice involving gay prostitution and meth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, what happened?  Well, nothing happened.  Friday was just like any other day.<\/p>\n<p>So, what did geniuses at Google, Youtube&#8217;s parent, do to address this?<\/p>\n<p>Did they come up with a technical method to kill all of this?  Was there some sort of highly sophisticated algorithm developed to spot nipples, penises, vaginas, and pubic hair? <\/p>\n<p>Well, no, they didn&#8217;t, what they did was far more basic and more effective:  They had some of their employees log into 4chan, and when people bragged about the pr0n posts, they took them down.<\/p>\n<p>No link yet, just online chatter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at 4Chan declared last Friday to be Pr0n Friday at Youtube, because they objected to the termination of the account of a user. Only, Friday rolled around, and nothing happened, not even a falsified death notice involving gay prostitution and meth. So, what happened? Well, nothing happened. Friday was just like any other &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}