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.

Comments

"New Guidelines"

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm guessing they will involve not sharing ad revenue with smaller youtube creators. Just a hunch.

How about common sense?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Simple guidelines for parents

[aevan]

Never! Youtube has replaced the tv as the babysitter for kids.

Used to be you plunk them infront of the idiot box and let Disney/Tubbies/PolkaDotDoor occupy them while you did housework/cooking/fucked off to the store/entertained adult friends. Now it's you hand each kid a tablet and maybe tell them to use headphones...while you did housework/cooked/fucked off to store/chatted with people online on your own device.

Don't criticise! They have *reasons*

Re:Simple guidelines for parents

[Kokuyo]

From an outside perspective, that sounds rather funny. ;)

We park our kids in front of the TV as well. They're three and a half. We let them watch Ultimate Spiderman, X-Men, The Last Airbender (and yes, we know that those are a bit on the heavy side for their age but they cope well) but also My Little Pony, Wickie (if that is even known around your parts) and Shaun the Sheep.

We don't let them watch anything we haven't or wouldn't watch (so no mindnumbing idiocy like Teletubbies) and when introducing them to things not meant for their age, we keep an eye on them until we're sure they can deal with the content.

Their language skills aren't as far as some other kids their age I've seen when it comes to proficiency in the language... but next to twin, they also not only speak and understand their mother tongue but English as well.

IMO, children need to be exposed to things in order to learn. They understand that there are not so nice people and they understand that death exists. They're no worse for having that knowledge.

Thank God

[rsilvergun]

I've been waiting years for somebody to put a stop to Pew di Pie. At last, our long national nightmare is over...