Japanese attack YouTube

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YouTube, the video-sharing website owned by Google, was busy deleting thousands of Internet Pornography videos after it was hit by an organised attack yesterday in a prank known as "Porn Day". Members of the 4Chan message board, which features Japanese anime and manga, have claimed responsibility for uploading the explicit videos in a simultaneous coordinated attack by members from around the world.

YouTube bans pornography from its videos, but reduces the definition to mere nudity, in which case it has gone ahead and deleted even medical surgery videos. Demonstrations of self-examination for breast or testicular cancer. Even demonstration videos helping users in self-examination of breasts to detect breast cancer in women, or self-examination of testicles for detecting testicular cancer in men, have been deleted!

Meanwhile a YouTube spokesperson said, "We were aware of yesterday's issue and removed the videos as they were brought to our attention through our flagging system, as we would any videos that violate our community guidelines. In addition, any account we discover that has been set up specifically to attack YouTube was also disabled."