New York targets Web videos gone wild

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Google’s free video service, Google Video, is apparently attracting a lot of gross and disgusting material that no advertiser would want to be a part of. Well, most advertisers would want no part of it, anyway. According to Tuesday’s New York Post, the service is not only free of charge but free of parental controls (unlike the main Google.com Web site) and censoring filters, although the article does cite the company’s attempts to review and block some of the videos submitted by ten of thousands of users.

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