YouTube cracks down on ‘sexually suggestive’ content

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YouTube announced on Tuesday that it was cracking down on “sexually suggestive” videos in a bid to clean up the popular video-sharing website.

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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.'”

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“Videos with sexually suggestive but not prohibited content will be age-restricted, which means they’ll be available only to viewers who are 18 or older,” the Google-owned website said.

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YouTube said videos which contain sexually suggestive content or profanity would no longer appear on its lists of “Most Viewed” or “Top Favorited” videos.

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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.

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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.

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YouTube, which receives 13 hours of video from users every minute, said repeat violators of the new rules will have their accounts terminated.

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