YouTube is going to disable comments on all content featuring minors

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Recently YouTube has been making a lot of changes to reflect public concerns such as the exploitation of minors, exposure to sexual predators, and spreading incorrect or harmful information such as anti-vaccine theories and flat-earth conspiracies. Apart from reviewing and subsequently deleting countless inappropriate comments and accounts on videos featuring minors last Friday, the video-sharing platform also disclosed plans to disable comments temporarily on thousands of such clips and demonetize them. Today the video-based social media giant announced several new policies that will be implemented in order to further protect underage persons from pedophilic abuse on the platform.

One of the steps taken by YouTube in the latest update to its child safety initiative includes blocking the comment section for good on all videos that show younger as well as older minors. Only a select few creators will be allowed to enable comments on their content, subject to the condition that they monitor and moderate the comment section themselves in addition to the pre-existing tools already provided by the platform and "demonstrate a low risk of predatory behavior" as a measure of safety and protection for the children.

YouTube is also planning on launching a new comments classifier which will essentially do what the company has been doing itself as well as urging other members of the community to do: scrutinize comments across the platform to search, locate, report and finally remove comments that are inappropriately sexual or predatory in nature. Apparently, the new classifier is twice as better as the previous one, and will not alter the monetization of content in any way.

The third and final point made in the blog post was an appeal to the viewers as well as the creators of content on the video-sharing platform, encouraging them to actively participate in protecting underage children by flagging any harmful or dangerous comments, videos or channels that violate YouTube's child safety regulations.

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ZemaPosted:

I honestly dont see this as a bad thing most the comments under youtube videos are cancer anyways

LoveFairyPosted:

This is so dumb. Youtube is acting like the internet police

RyanPosted:

i think its a good idea due to the toxicity of youtube comments

BarredPosted:

This is stupid this generation is offened by everything people baby there kids to much the real world is not nice or friendly. Get over it

RedactedPosted:

Fully disagree. Now those who post shit with their kids can't have comments on their channel. Some big channels out there too

Two_FacedPosted:

PC I personally agree to an extent. Comments on youtube are AIDS.


Yeah they are. I've actually been banned on YouTube for pointing out that fact that 16 is the legal age of consent still in multiple states. They should just not allow any content with minors to be posted on YouTube. P**nHub comments are far worse tho.

PCPosted:

I personally agree to an extent. Comments on youtube are AIDS.

TTGPosted:

I do have to agree with this to an extent, we don't need any sexual comments in a video with little kids.

AnimePosted:

Not sure what to say the seems kind of pointless.

Two_FacedPosted:

Anti-vaccine conspiracy is hands down the dumbest of them all. I live in a state that has a HUGE population of people who are anti-vaccine (Washington State) and there was a huge outbreak of measles not long ago. In some schools known for giving passes on kids that are not vaccinated for basically any reason.

Very sad we are at a time in history where HUGE companies can control what we see as 'consumers' there is an epidemic of fake news and false information. It's spreads so fast the damage is done before it can be corrected. I can imagine a scary time in the near future where there is a monopoly on all media, and freedom of speech no longer exists becuse it goes against the "terms of service". Do we really want to live in a world where a multi billion dollar conpany can have such an influence? If it doesn't fit their agenda, political, financial, etc.. I on the other hand would rather have the ability to watch flat earth videos or 9/11 videos and decide for myself rather than have a company decide for me what is true or false.


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