BayImg: Google Ads + Porn Pictures

Posted in Adsense, Google, Photo by Elliott Back on June 21st, 2007.

I like the idea behind Pirate Bay’s new image hosting venture Bay Image, which is free, unrestricted image hosting outside of political influence or police control. I like the idea that visual information can find a free home. However, they have a big problem at the moment, which is the massive amounts of porn being uploaded. Just take a look at their tag cloud and it becomes clear what BayImg really is: a free porn hosting site:

They have a “report image” link, but according to their terms on the front page, these kind of images are probably ok:

Bayimg is a place where you can host all your images. We do not censor them. We believe in freedom of speech, it’s of utter importance to us. As long as your pictures are legal they will be hosted here, but we reserve the right to remove images due to technical reasons though.

OK, that’s fine. You’re a website, you can host whatever you want. I don’t have a problem with that, but Google, who provides the advertisments for your site, probably does. You can’t run Adsense next to porn, it’s not allowed:

For the sake of the argument, take my word for it that horsie and friend are sharing more than a hug. So far, with 82,276 images and 1,753,943 photos, BayImg is set to explode on the image hosting scene, but let’s hope they can either solve their porn problem, or find a new advertising partner before Google drops them. I’m not even going to get started on how this looks for their public image or respectability…

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Random Reader 1 year ago 1 point
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You sound like you're jealous, not concerned. Maybe your google ads next to porn project got canned? Either way you are playing the role of a rat not a blogger.

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Elliott Back 1 year ago 1 point
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Jealous!? No, I don't have any interest in mashing up porn and image hosting, thank you very much.

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WillSWC 1 year ago 1 point
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Quite amusing. Seeing as how I've yet to see any porn on BayImg it appears the problem has left all by itself.

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Solsys 12 months ago 1 point
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Will: In order to see the vast majority of porn on bayimg you have to turn on "explicit content" in the preferences on the site. Some images slip thru the filters, but all in all they do about as good a job filtering as Google's own image search.

As long as bayimg continues to make the best attempt to filter out porn, I doubt Google is going to do anything about it. Not to mention the Google guys have a clue and know damned well the pirate bay would turn it into a PR nightmare for them.

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Maurice 5 months ago 1 point
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You're a complete cunt. You have no interest in free speech. You would draw lines where a cartoon horsie fucks a cartoon ... I'm not even sure how to define your cartoon "victim." You're too chickenshit to include the entire image.

If this is as bad as you could find on BayImg, you obviously spent no more time than you required to become INCENSED.

Like I said... a total cunt where freedom of speech is concerned. You don't require a victim. You don't even require the drawn imaginary victim involved to be human in appearance. I've seen much more explicit drawn art than this on anonib and chan sites. Then again I'm not a hypocritical moron who draws the lines of free speech where his personal sensibilities end.

Grow up. The world isn't compromising it's freedoms where your hangups are drawn. Or mine. The most powerful demagogue in the world can't draw that line for others. (A crime requires a victim.) If he can, I'll enjoy blowing your head off in his name.

How's that for rhetoric?

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