'Sesame Street' Pornography: Hackers Target TV Show's YouTube Page

Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Pornography Street?

Hackers took control of the "Sesame Street" YouTube page yesterday, turning the kid-friendly destination into a porno site, CNN reports.

Graphic content replaced footage of the friendly puppets for 20 minutes before being taken down, according to Gawker.

The cyber attack probably has officials at the children's program wondering just who are the people in their neighborhood.

One source deep within the show's parent company, Sesame Workshop, joked that this is yet another sex controversy for the program, like the petition by viewers asking for Bert and Ernie to have a gay marriage in April.

"Between this and the Bert & Ernie coming-out petitions, it seems everyone wants 'The Street' to teach sex ed," the contact told The Huffington Post.

Last fall, "Sesame Street" got into trouble for a racy video of pop star Katy Perry wearing a low-cut top during a singalong with Elmo. Ultimately, the clip was yanked from the show.

Responding to the hacking scandal, Sesame Workshop officials issued an apology on Sunday in case any impressionable viewers caught a glimpse of skin.

"Our channel was compromised and we are presently working with YouTube/Google to restore our original content. We always strive to provide age-appropriate content for our viewers and hope to resolve this problem quickly."

As of Monday morning, the YouTube page remained unavailable.

Comments

[gregsunde]

10:22 PM on 10/19/2011

Get real....people up in arms because youtube was hacked on a sesame street tag... please tell me how many 4 year old kids are surfing the net let alone navigating youtube... I am not saying it's right...but think before you post...

[siegfried728711]

01:42 PM on 10/19/2011

well, i guess that would have said ( or shown ) alot about bert & ernie..

[LondonDavid]

01:35 PM on 10/19/2011

Gosh....thank God the "Count who loves to count" has those two letter O's in his name!!
http://todayfreedom.blogspot.com/

[rMatey]

09:38 AM on 10/19/2011

I always thought Elmo was a little gay.

[siegfried728711]

01:43 PM on 10/19/2011

you know the rules ; don;t tell.

[LondonDavid]

01:43 PM on 10/19/2011

But not as gay as the purple one in The Teletubbies :-)
http://todayfreedom.blogspot.com/

[rhettcbowling]

08:33 AM on 10/19/2011

Everybody thinks it's You Tubes fault that this happened but the truth is this can and will happen any where on any site at any time because the hackers are trying to tell everyone that the internet is not safe. In other words, the world has become dependent on the internet and if the hackers can disrupt the function of the internet then evil people can create great harm to the worlds business structure and throw us back twenty or thirty years. There are no absolutes in this world. Remember that people.

[straightuptalker]

06:47 AM on 10/19/2011

It's not just "Sesame Street". I've accidentally discovered many similar venues on YouTube when browsing with my then 4-year old grandchild searching for cartoons. Many contain foul language and inappropriate content, and I don't understand why YouTube allows such content to be displayed under "kids cartoons". In searching for a few of her favorites like "Little Red Riding Hood", "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" and even "The Wizard of Oz", you had to be extremely careful on which one to click on, since so many versions were obviiously made for adults, and not for children. Thankfully, my now 5-year old GC is happy to choose sites like "pbs kids", and "Barbie", I don't have to worry, but I'm still watchful. Obviously, YouTube allows anybody to submit anything, regardless of content or whether it's x-rated, so we just don't go there anymore.

[esaustew]

02:45 AM on 10/19/2011

They're obviously looking for a teenager.

[rhettcbowling]

08:35 AM on 10/19/2011

Teenager or not, they better be looking for ways to stay ahead of the internet hacker criminals or we're in big trouble.

[rann948]

01:40 AM on 10/19/2011

I hope they catch the pervert. a suitable punishment: five years in an isolation cell with re-runs of sesame street projected on the walls.

[sindfetish]

01:37 AM on 10/19/2011

That is just wrong...funny as heck, but wrong.

[babydeer37]

10:17 AM on 10/19/2011

you thing its funny to subject children to pornographic images? maby you should do some soul searching.

[LondonDavid]

01:39 PM on 10/19/2011

Maybe you should stop being so precious and pretending the world revolves around kids when it doesn't.

This western obsession with turning the world into some pampered, cotton-pad Kid-zoo is beginning to get on everyone's nerves. And it's actually bad social thinking which is out of synch with basic common sense through centuries of human experience.

Kids aren't stupid and they don't need to be given so many protective layers that they can't breathe.

And get over it - your kids will soon be looking at whatever they want to and getting laid. The latter, after all, is how you put them here in the first place.
http://todayfreedom.blogspot.com/

[siegfried728711]

01:45 PM on 10/19/2011

yeah , and the Count who not only counts but sucks ( blood ).

[rrsltx]

08:45 PM on 10/18/2011

This isn't Wierd News, this should be classified as Sick and Depraved News. Just disgusting.

[Grimmsd]

06:37 PM on 10/18/2011

Putting porn on a kids site is just about as low as a hacker can go. I hope he gets busted before he tries to mess up any more kids.

[PMJ79]

11:13 AM on 10/19/2011

@Grimmsd

This is why I don't believe in the existence of so-called "white-hat" hackers.

[Grimmsd]

01:45 PM on 10/19/2011

That doesn't make sens to me. Just because one hacker did something low and despicable they are all evil?

Using that logic if one cop does something wrong they are all evil.
Using that logic if one priest does something wrong they are all evil.
Using that logic if one fireman does something wrong they are all evil.
Using that logic if one aid worker does something wrong they are all evil.

That doesn't work for me.

[siegfried728711]

01:45 PM on 10/19/2011

whats that???

[Blue Wolf Bosh]

05:21 PM on 10/18/2011

Definitely disturbing that someone would do that to Sesame Street. Even so in regards to Katy Perry's censored appearance; 'Last fall, "Sesame Street" got into trouble for a racy video of pop star Katy Perry wearing a low-cut top during a singalong with Elmo. Ultimately, the clip was yanked from the show.' if someone thought that was 'racy' then they need help too.

[team6]

05:11 PM on 10/18/2011

Why not? Parents wont do it, teachers cant. Why not TV?

[rrogearmil]

02:31 PM on 10/18/2011

Now the kiss between the lawyer with the big nose and his girl friend on THE GOOD WIFE was porn--you know, when she pretended to have an orgasm. This thing on Sesame Street with Katy needs a lot of maturation to be implied as porn. I really don't think children would be pornized by it. It would take years of psychosexual development for them to see it as such. As for adults--If you look hard enough for sex, you can find it.

[Nardac]

08:16 PM on 10/18/2011

A lot of maturation to be implied as porn? I would say another word there but it would get my comment yanked. Those parents are idiots.

[K White]

12:55 PM on 10/18/2011

Ridiculous! The hackers really need to leave the children websites alone.