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This is awesome.

People who want porn get porn. People who want money (ie Justin.tv) get money.

Unfortunately, there are definitely issues.

Some 8-year-old kid is going to search for the awesome new channel about secant that everyone in 3rd grade is talking about. Since the c is next to the x, he's going to accidentally type "sex" instead of "sec". 5 seconds later, he says "mommy, what is that?", and 10 seconds later Justin.tv has a very, very angry parent on their hands.

Ok, maybe that's a little unrealistic. But people are going to complain about it.




You'd think they would, but we've been running this for a long time already and other than this silly kerfluffle, there haven't really been complaints. And believe me, our users love to complain (that's why we love our users!)


It's not up to Justin.tv to ask for an age: it's up to the site that actually displays said pornographic content. It's their business and their responsibility.

Btw, after trying out the redirect, there is in fact no "pornographic" material on the entry page.

EDIT: this comment was not meant to be a reply to your comment, jackowayed. (oops! sorry.)


And they could hit the t key a little too soon also and end up with a demo video on using a sextant. The educational possibilities of typos are endless! Although, I wouldn't be surprised if sextant demo videos get caught in some web filter.


Good thing I didn't learn secant until high school -- in which my typo would turn into a pleasant surprise




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