From YouTube's Terms of Use:
"C. In connection with User Submissions, you further agree that you will not...(iii) submit material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense..."

Considering that every other video is either kids fighting, webcam strippers or straight up hardcore porn clips, I'd say the folks at YouTube are falling down a bit on the job of enforcing their own terms. I can understand that with a large volume of submissions, there might be a lag between when stuff is posted and, where it violates terms, eventually removed. But so much of this stuff is on the top pages, having been posted hours earlier and viewed thousands of times. They need to act quicker.
I'm not a fan of watching people get beat up and since this is criminal activity, I won't hedge on calling for it to be pulled. As for the "adult" fare, let it flow, but keep it from unsuspecting eyes if you want to draw the general public to your site. Otherwise, don't pretend it's anything other than a place for people to indulge their tastes for sex and violence. I went looking for a clip of a Canadian MP talking about copyright issues. That's not the forum in which I want to see "Drunk Girls are Easy 2."
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