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YouTube To Implement New Guidelines To Protect Minors From Disturbing Content (cnet.com)
YouTube will be implementing five new rules to protect minors from disturbing content. They include removing ads from inappropriate videos and blocking predatory comments from videos that feature minors. CNET reports: The new guidelines are as follows:
-Tougher application of Community Guidelines and faster enforcement through technology
-Removing ads from inappropriate videos targeting families
-Blocking inappropriate comments on videos featuring minors
-Providing guidance for creators who make family-friendly content
-Engaging and learning from experts
These rules follow recent reports that expose fundamental flaws in YouTube algorithms and screening protocol, which fail to recognize or pull down videos that feature disturbing imagery but are aimed at children for monetization purposes. Videos featuring children doing innocuous activities like exercising are also riddled with predatory or sexual comments from viewers, something YouTube is attempting to curb with its new guidelines.
-Tougher application of Community Guidelines and faster enforcement through technology
-Removing ads from inappropriate videos targeting families
-Blocking inappropriate comments on videos featuring minors
-Providing guidance for creators who make family-friendly content
-Engaging and learning from experts
These rules follow recent reports that expose fundamental flaws in YouTube algorithms and screening protocol, which fail to recognize or pull down videos that feature disturbing imagery but are aimed at children for monetization purposes. Videos featuring children doing innocuous activities like exercising are also riddled with predatory or sexual comments from viewers, something YouTube is attempting to curb with its new guidelines.
I'm guessing they will involve not sharing ad revenue with smaller youtube creators. Just a hunch.
Skip the filtering and whatnot.
In case parents give their offsprings access to the digital equivalent of a sharp tool they have to supervise them.
Oh, I forgot: we're talking about a company in a moron country that lawyered up to make others pay for the own neglect.
So when are they going to do something about their discrimination based on political affiliation, and having knee-jerk reactions to the tragedy of the week?
Is that if your filtering algorithm doesn't work, blame your users and make another algorithm to automate punishing them.
Repeat ad infinitum
> Tougher application of Community Guidelines and faster enforcement through technology
I wonder if that's the cause behind the mass community-strikes against seemingly random playlists a few days ago.
They're trying to cram so much into their censorship bots that everything triggers some rule. Every month they add more things to filter, and every month some outrage journalist finds more stuff to be offended by.
I've had it with minors disturbing my content.
Trust the corporations to protect your children from things that might make them think.
Kids should not live in a deluded distorted reality, never learning to handle actual reality!
It's like those kids who played computer games all their lives, where only the “fun” parts of serial murder are shown, and all the suffering and horror and consequences of real-world murder are hidden away because they are horrifying. ... or really just any kind of out-of-the-ordinary interaction in real life ... and they completely collapse, unable to handle any of it, let alone in a grown-up way
And then they get into real combat
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They are supposed to be horrifying! People are supposed to shy away from those things!
Why do idiots always stifle their children's maturity and call it "protecting them"?
Why not teach them, to protect themselves!?
You know. That state called maturity.
I've been waiting years for somebody to put a stop to Pew di Pie. At last, our long national nightmare is over...
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Won't someone think of the minors?
How does removing ads protect anybody? I call BS on YT once again.
Because our economy doesn't need responsible adults but adult kids with credit cards that are legally fully responsible for their irresponsibility.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
If this was about advertisers being worried they might get associated with "bad" videos, the solution is very trivial: Postpone the payout of any money to content creators by, say, a month. Enough time that a lot of viewers would complain about it being inappropriate for kids, and you have plenty of time not only to remove the video but also yank the account (along with not paying a dime).
After no more than 2 months, no accounts trying to lure kids for financial gains will exist anymore.
What's left after this is the trolls who do it for shits and giggles and not money. For them, the easy solution is to not offer any videos from new content creators to kids in their "trending" or "related" bar so they'd have to go out of their way to see it, but show it to parents who can sign up for something like this. You think you won't find enough helicopter parents with nothing better to do than to policy what all kids should or should not see? Think again.
What they deem appropriate can then go on to kids' trending/related/recommended feed, the rest gets shadowbanned from kids' accounts and gets only shown to adults with ... odd tastes.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Someone preventing those minors from desturbing my precious content will finally make moderating the comments section of my videos unnecessary. Great!
Oh. "Protect". Not "prevent". Never mind...
i had a bad feeling jerks wold do this
Google's new changes for YouTube are barely lip-service to the problem. It's a PR move, on what is a disturbing & scary problem.
While I won't let my sons (2, 4 & 6) anywhere near YouTube... I have many parent friends who let their children browse YouTube Kids basically unattended. While this is clearly not a good idea, the fact remains that overworked, exhausted parents are going to do this. That videos of Peppa Pig eating her father & drinking bleach, and other horrid 'cartoons' are slipping past automated filters, the service needs to remove the 'kids' label and only re-open when human reviewed videos replace them. A-la Netflix Kids, etc.
That Google won't even prevent the 'related videos' bar from sending kids down the rabbit hole, is also infuriating.
I have friends who, upon reading this news, scanned their child's history only to find videos of cartoon favourites sexually assaulting eachother. Wth Google - shut it down!
And to say parents should be previewing each & every video - I agree... but they don't. Parents in today's dual-income, cash-strapped economy are at an exhausted extreme.
If you donâ(TM)t happen to think it is ok for the government to tax you at 40% to fund welfare programs or if you happen to find abortion morally wrong, prepare to be black holed.
You mean parents are motivated by money to create shock videos that attract viewers? Take away the money, take away the motivation. Great thinking Youtube, that will stop them for sure.
My kids love Youtube. When they were younger, they would watch stuff like the video of the duck and the lemonade stand. As soon as one got popular, more would show up along the same lines, often with swear words, death of the main character, or sexual acts. I am all for parody, but the knock-offs were clearly made by teenagers who thought it was hilarious that young children would think it was a new cartoon of their favourite character only to see them impaled by a pole. As a result, no more youtube until they were teenagers. Youtube, it's about time.
The Public: Twitter seems full of bullies, jihadis, pedophiles, and trolls.
YouTube: Great! We'll crack down on Right-wing content!
Alternative Right.
These were called parents.
So, e.g.:
- contains weapons .. so US-parents block nudity any level, while germans would mostly allow nudity level a but prohibit weapons
- contains nudity level a
- contains porn
Why does google think they might know what's good for our children?
there's still stuff like this. 11 years and counting.
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You need humans to watch videos, similar to censors that vet TV content. They want to automate all this and people just find ways to get through, just like they do with captchas and spam filters of any kind.
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Exactly who's call is this? And will it be regionally implemented.
I had to disable my HOSTS file to view the page. Too much hassle to find the sites involved, but data collection most likely. While proporting to be a protection move for the under aged, it's but one step closer to taking away my parental rights of what I allow or block.
I'm also waiting to see if this logging in is to be a rule rather than an option. I don't log into Youtube unless I have a real need. If an inappropriate call on a video displays, I'm told I have to log in, at which point that video isn't that important to me; and I move on.
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If YouTube cared about minors they'd let parents block channels. They'd also let suggestion blocking to work on the YouTube for kids apps. They only care about high view counts on content for as revenue.
Who said children were allowed onto Youtube? And if so whose child because my hypothetical child would kick the crap out of yours.
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How long until Google as a whole does away with the option to turn off safe search? Will we forever be stuck in fumbling kiddy land unable to ascertain the inner workings of our mind and body?
Two. Simple. Words. "Parental Involvement." So long as people who should never be allowed NEAR children, let alone "raise" any, depend on technology to raise their kids, this will be ineffective.