Keeping Orkut Clean (Sweeping The Mess)

Thanks to everyone who has joined the campaign to keep Orkut clean and for alerting users about forums, profiles, etc. that encourage child predators in their sick behavior as well as those who enjoy promoting violence throughout the forums.

Orkut is Google's most undervalued feature that has (in my honest opinion) the potential to bring in millions of dollars for the company--and I am not talking about via Ad Sense here (I'll cover this in a later post).

Unfortunately Orkut's biggest threat are those using it for "less desirable purposes" and this could threaten not only Google, but the millions who use it for legitimate purposes.

Without further delay, here is a partial list of some content that Google will frown upon. (Note: Titles with an "*" have been partially translated into English.)

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Warning: Some of these forums contain graphic images and are NOT suitable for the viewing public (let alone the sane).
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On the child predator front:

• Exchange of photos, lolitas and teen * (Report as bogus)


• Gayzinhos de 10-18 anos (Report as bogus)


• MSN & WebCam Gay TeeN - BRASIL (Report as bogus)


• Who wants to eat the Dannyzinha * (Report as bogus)


• I WOULD ABSORB THE MIRIM_13ANOS * (Report as bogus)


• There are several other questionable profiles, albums and forums which you can find over here.

On the terrorism front:

• Terrorists deep of yard * (Report as bogus)


• Followers of Osama Bin Laden * (Report as bogus)


• Rede Alkaida Brasil (Report as bogus)


• Al Hamas (Report as bogus)


• Although other forums were mentioned, the ones above advocate violence against others, something Google may want to check out.

There are several other communities also dedicated towards keeping Orkut clean, and I will see if we can all network together to make Orkut a fun place to surf in.

Google already has a system in place to deal with this content, so I would recommend that WE USE IT before contacting the American authorities. Let's keep Orkut clean together...and make Google millions. (=

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