What kinds of videos do the Australians want Youtube to filter? I think this might be someone to score political points out of a minister misstatement. I suspect Youtube already does a good enough job filtering porn to satisfy the Australian government. It's not like the Australians want to start blocking words like "freedom" and "nirvana".
Conroy wasn't talking about YouTube specifically, but about Google and high-volume websites in general that currently aren't possible to filter through software. I'd be surprised if YouTube did contain material that the OFLC would consider Refused Classification.
Possibly. I wonder if a video game playthrough (say fallout 3) is RC? The US version of the game is, but is a video of said game (esp. as there's an R rating for video). Also - the crime instruction issue, might be something like that on youtube
There is only one worldwide version of Fallout 3; the Australian version is identical to the US copy. The item Morphine was renamed Med-X to pass through the Australian Classfication Board. The name change was also applied to all other international versions of the game.
A better example would be a game like L4D2. However that should be perfectly fine. Although video games lack an R18+ rating in Australia, such a rating exists for television and film. Therefore, a video of a RC computer game should be fine (as long as it is within the constraints of the R18+ rating for film).
I think it's unlikely that YouTube would a host a video on crime instruction that would be severe enough to be considered RC. I may be wrong. Perhaps someone could try uploading a euthanasia how-to video on YouTube describing explicitly the steps involved in performing euthanasia - the drugs required, how to obtain and smuggle such drugs through Australian customs, and the dosage required. I suspect that YouTube would probably take it down.
