YouTube curbs on sexy videos

Sexually suggestive clips will not appear on site’s list of ‘most viewed’ videos

WASHINGTON: YouTube announced on Tuesday that it was cracking down on ‘sexually suggestive’ videos in a bid to clean up the popular video-sharing website.
In a blog posting, YouTube, which already bans pornography, said it would be enforcing a “stricter standard for mature content” and “tightening the standard for what is considered ‘sexually suggestive.’”

“Videos with sexually suggestive content will be age-restricted, which means they’ll be available only to viewers who are 18 or older,”the Google-owned website said.

It said videos, which contain sexually suggestive content would no longer appear on its lists of ‘Most Viewed’ videos. The Internet’s top video-sharing site also said it would step up enforcement of rules banning misleading descriptions in the tags and titles of a video.

Some YouTube users have been known to give videos misleading titles such as ‘sexy’ in a bid to increase the view counts of a particular video. YouTube, which receives 13 hours of video from users every minute, said repeat violaters of the new rules will have their accounts terminated.