Sites for family (& other) videos

It's getting very easy for anyone to put video on the Web for all to see - at no cost. Parents may want to note that, as with blogging sites, anyone can start his/her own account from anywhere there's a Net connection. The Los Angeles Times reviews three free video services: Grouper.com (which is also a well-established music-sharing service), YouTube.com, and Google Video. The first two allow a user to select a friends-only setting to restrict viewing. But Google, unlike Grouper and YouTube, reviews all videos before publishing them, according to the L.A. Times. To writer David Colker's credit, he addresses the question on many parents' minds: Doesn't video sharing on the Internet open a big Pandora's box - amateur porn?... Executives at both [Grouper and YouTube] said there had been few instances of anyone trying to slip porn onto their sites [all three have anti-porn clauses in their user agreements]. And soon after subscribers complained about such clips, the executives said, they were deleted." With no other safeguards from kids' exposure to X-rated content, one can only hope the companies stay vigilant.