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LAST NIGHT, YOUTUBE announced its premium version of its service called YouTube Red. Essentially a paid tier on top of the free service, it allows users to watch videos without ads, listen to music in the background and download videos.
The service is only available in the US for now and it’s not clear when it will be made available in Ireland.
Yet what has been gaining the most attention is the name itself. According to the company, the name came from how much the colour red is associated with YouTube, after having talks with both users and fans.
That hasn’t stopped numerous comparisons to a porn site with a very similar name soon after it was unveiled.
This comparison doesn’t seem to bother YouTube where one of its executives said it’s “not too worried about that other site” and that a lot of consumer testing was done before it settled on the name.
There are many other porn sites out there whose names are references to YouTube, mainly as a way of piggybacking on its success. For example, RedTube was founded in 2007, two years after YouTube was launched, and Google hasn’t taken action against it or any other NSFW sites with similar names.
The service will first launch in the US on 28 October. It will include original programming at the start of 2016 and will range from short videos to feature-length movies from established YouTube stars.
As I have said before.
It is not ultimately a food crisis but an overpopulation issue in a region of our planet which cannott sustain such a large amount of people.
Birthcontrol and education are crucial in resolving this.
U hit the nail on the head. This is not like the Irish famine . Ireland has always being able to grow enough food. It’s having too many children in desert areas
This is not just a contraception issue, its also a cultural issue.
I work in maternity services and we have many African women having 12 or 13 children. These women and their husbands do not work and are a massive drain on this country.
You cannot expect people who are starving to go look for condoms when what they actually want is a bigger family as its ‘part of their culture’ to have massive families. It will take much more and years of education.
In work 2 weeks ago, I dealt with 2 African ladies, one pregnant with her 13th child and another pregnant with her 11th. 2 African women having the same number of children as 11-12 Irish women is not going to help Ireland.
I am only seeing this thread now, sorry…!
I interviewed Sorcha Nic Mhathúna Oxfam’s Communications Consultant on the crisis on Raidió na Life last month. I will be interviewing her again for an update. The interview below is in Irish but I plan to cover it as Béarla also next week.
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