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So crowd favorite YouTube is in the spotlight today in the New York Times technology section. Why? Because apparently YouTube is trying to get all dolled up so someone will throw a lot of money at them and buy them out. However, the big deal right now is what their censorship policy is.

As of right now, if a user finds material on the site to be offensive at all, it can be flagged for review by the customer service staff to determine whether or not something should be deleted. This is all fine and dandy, except that it seems that in our nice world of greys that there is no black and white to what they determine to be censor-worthy. Which begs the question: What is too offensive for YouTube? I mean, there are the obvious answers: pornography, disturbing violence, etc. But what about other stuff, like political cartoons that make incredibly rude statements and things like that? Where is YouTube going to draw the line?

I hadn't really thought of this until I read the article. I'm curious to see how this turns out.

You can read the article here.