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YouTube Should Ban Children Says a School Teacher
Nine boys were allegedly suspended from the school last year after Capaldi found a clip of them vandalizing a bus roof and shouting obscenities. He states, “There are too many of these types of videos on there, with children behaving in a loutish, anti-social way.”
Capaldi argues that allowing the content to be posted sends a message to kids that the actions on the videos are acceptable.
Three students at Hayling College, were suspended lat summer after footage of two girls fighting, recorded on a cell phone, was posted onto YouTube.
The head teacher, Max Bullough, attempted to have the video taken down, but had difficulty in doing so. There were no contact details and he was not a member of the site. He says, “They don’t seem to operate a complaints policy…They say they have a team who deal with flagged up content operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, but I don’t believe it.”
Bullough eventually had to use the aid of the police to have the video taken down, after it was viewed over 1,000 times.
According to a YouTube spokesman, the site relies on it’s users to bring inappropriate content to their attention by flags. He says, “Our community understands the rules and polices the site for inappropriate material. When users feel content is inappropriate they can flag it and our staff review it as quickly as possible to see if it violates our terms of use…If users repeatedly break these rules we disable their accounts.”
