*A Sun investigation reveals how YouTube is a haven for hardcore porn that has racked up millions of views.
Google’s hugely popular video-sharing site hosts dozens of explicit adult videos, despite saying that such material is forbidden.
One video featuring explicit sex scenes had racked up an incredible 24.8million views. The clip was uploaded to YouTube in March 2015 but hadn’t been taken down Another video uploaded in the same month had 11million views.
The Sun report uncovered explicit videos that featured full intercourse, oral sex and even rape scenes – none of which were censored.
YouTube’s nudity and sexual content policy reads:
“YouTube is not for pornography or sexually explicit content. If this describes your video, even if it’s a video of yourself, don’t post it on YouTube. If a video is intended to be sexually provocative, it is less likely to be acceptable for YouTube. Sexually explicit content like pornography is not allowed.”
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One prison sex scene included a man forcibly having anal sex with another man. And another video depicted women being kept in prison cells by men who forced them to have sex.
YouTube says it forbids extreme content like this.
“In most cases, violent, graphic or humiliating fetishes are not allowed to be shown on YouTube,” the site’s policy reads.
According to the Sun report, the videos are being shared using coded terms for pornography, like “pron” or “pron finder”.
Hundreds of clips are uploaded to pornographic playlists, created by users who want to secretly highlight XXX material on YouTube.
A YouTube user, who declined to be named, told The Sun: “I have been watching this channel for over a year and they’re constantly adding new playlists daily.
“Last year I reported 1,000s of videos, with nearly 70% being true hardcore XXX porn.
“How does this one channel get so many links so fast daily if they are not the ones uploading them under other accounts, and then adding new links daily under their channel?”
The user added that they’d seen “a few movies out there with bestiality too” – that’s sexual acts with animals.
Part of the problem is that YouTube doesn’t allow users to report playlists.
“That means playlists can be created that are constantly flooded with – and emptied of – hardcore porn. And users have no easy way of letting YouTube know this is happening.”
“Some of the videos are behind YouTube’s age-restriction block. But Google has no way of actually verifying whether users creating YouTube accounts are actually older than 18 years old.”
“That means it would be very easy for a child to create a YouTube account with a fake age, and them stumble upon these videos.”
Since the Sun report went live, YouTube has taken down a number of the pornographic videos.
In a statement, a YouTube spokesperson said: “We do not allow pornography on YouTube.
“We do allow videos with artistic or educational value but we apply an age restriction where appropriate.”
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