Hello,There is a serious problem with Deezer content, protecting children and the viability of the “explicit content” filters.If I apply the filter then a lot of completely harmless stuff gets blocked. My son told me yesterday how he couldn’t listen to a Bruno Mars song or one of his favourite stories (for children). The same son was browsing through comedy podcasts and was shocked to hear someone talking about certain sexual acts. Needless to say, he had lots of questions for me. I had a look myself this morning. I applied the explicit content filter to the profile and was able to find a lot of content that was not just explicit but pornographic in nature. Most of them were podcasts, and I didn’t therefore even have the “block artist” button. I checked out the other providers like Spotify and Amazon and it’s the same story. I initally thought I was signing up to a music platform, and I would not have minded the occasional bit of bad language in a song, plus I can always block artists. Why and when did Deezer decide to allow pornographic audio on their platform? More importantly, when are you going to either remove the content (which would be preferable) or setup proper stringent filters that realise that Bruno Mars is okay whereas audio porn is not?

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Why is pornographic content made available to children?

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April 2, 2024
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Hello,

There is a serious problem with Deezer content, protecting children and the viability of the “explicit content” filters.

If I apply the filter then a lot of completely harmless stuff gets blocked. My son told me yesterday how he couldn’t listen to a Bruno Mars song or one of his favourite stories (for children).
The same son was browsing through comedy podcasts and was shocked to hear someone talking about certain sexual acts. Needless to say, he had lots of questions for me.
I had a look myself this morning. I applied the explicit content filter to the profile and was able to find a lot of content that was not just explicit but pornographic in nature. Most of them were podcasts, and I didn’t therefore even have the “block artist” button.

I checked out the other providers like Spotify and Amazon and it’s the same story. I initally thought I was signing up to a music platform, and I would not have minded the occasional bit of bad language in a song, plus I can always block artists.

Why and when did Deezer decide to allow pornographic audio on their platform? More importantly, when are you going to either remove the content (which would be preferable) or setup proper stringent filters that realise that Bruno Mars is okay whereas audio porn is not?

Best answer by Leonídia.Deezer

Hi @TheLizard thanks for reaching out and big thanks for your help @TheLizard @E0xc815.

Unfortunately, Deezer doesn’t have an immediate control of all podcast that are submitted in the platform as this is a free service that we offer to the podcasters that want to have their podcasts on Deezer.

There are rules that need to be respected according our terms and conditions and we are always hearing feedbacks from our users, when something breach those conditions.

Can be the cover art or the content of the podcast.

Podcaster have a setting in the RSS Feed to tag if the podcast is explicit or not, we can override this tag if we consider appropriate to do it.

To address this promptly, as suggested by our user @E0xc815, could you please provide some links of podcast that should be classified as Explicit?

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

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Guys, Deezer is full of explicit porn podcasts, which are very easily accessible through the search function. just try to search for some porn-related words. I can't believe some kind of AI cannot filter them out and get rid of this trash. The kids profiles are not a solution, nor hiding explicit content in their profiles ( I have a family plan) . Some of us have just a music streamer or an iPad in the living room to listen music on the hifi, which is just the reason we give you money every month. Listen to music. Please do not transform this in a porn machine or we'll have to move to another music service.

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