I saw a segment on The Today Show on YouTube videos that encourage drug use. This segment highlights the new report from the White House Offices of National Drug Control Policy releasing information about children viewing videos online that teach them how to use drugs.
After watching this I thought about how inadequate current filtering solutions are to address this problem. In every filter I’m aware of, you either have to block all of YouTube or allow it. Now Safe Eyes blogs about this:
A couple months back a customer asked me over lunch “Why can’t you just block the bad videos on YouTube?” I started into a technical explanation of how difficult filtering video streams is. Part way through the answer an idea sprang to life. I could barely wait to get back to the office and pound out a proof of concept.
I’m excited to be able to announce an enhancement to our Safe Eyes parental control software which provides clip-by-clip filtering on YouTube.
Traditionally most Internet filters have either blocked or allowed YouTube as a whole. Most often it was blocked. The new filtering capability in Safe Eyes represents the first time an Internet filter has been able to allow or block individual YouTube clips based on their content no matter where they appear online.
The new YouTube filtering is included in the latest version of Safe Eyes and available now at www.safeeyes.com. Thanks to the entire Safe Eyes team for turning this “lunch table idea” into a reality.
Press Release: Keep YouTube ‘Clean’ for Your Kids with Safe Eyes
Filed under: Filtering, Filtering Companies, Internet Safety
