Brigham Young University recently added a big name to the list of Web sites it prohibits students from viewing on the campus: YouTube.
The university has long used filtering software to keep students from viewing content that officials deem pornographic, violent, or otherwise inappropriate, according to the Daily Herald. But most of the material on YouTube is pretty antiseptic. So why block the site?
YouTube has its own pornography filters. But the site also lets users "tag" videos with terms that describe the clips' content. That means the university cannot simply block students from searching YouTube for terms like "sex," as it does with Google Video, a similar site. –Brock Read
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