YouTube bans comments on all videos containing anyone under the age of 18.

I always thought that Youtube (like Facebook?), was age-restricted anyway? Isn't there a "Youtube Kids" for younger 'youtubers'??
 
So they allow images of children, like creepy modelling channels but not comments, makes sense.

There are restrictions but it's dependent on the device, software and parents actually giving a .......
 
Mr Jack said:
Why did you give the thread a title that is flat wrong about what they are doing? Did you just not read your link?

From that link:

In a blog post, YouTube said its new policy meant videos of very young children would automatically have the comments section disabled.

The move is likely to include videos of toddlers uploaded by parents, as well as short films featuring children by established YouTube stars.

Videos of older children and teenagers will typically not have the comments disabled, unless a specific video is likely to attract predatory attention. That could include, for example, a video of a teenager doing gymnastics.​

So... not all videos of people under 18 then?
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Actually I didn't give it that title it was changed by a mod because apparently mine was too "click baity"

Infact the only addition that could be made to make it more accurate is 1 word. Almost.
 
MadMossy said:
Actually I didn't give it that title it was changed by a mod because apparently mine was too "click baity"
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In that case: explain yourselves anonymous mod! :p

Infact the only addition that could be made to make it more accurate is 1 word. Almost.
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A more accurate title would need "... of young children and some videos with older children".
 
In defense of the title the BBC misrepresented youtube intention
YouTube says it will switch off comments on almost all videos featuring under-18s, in an attempt to "better protect children and families".
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Shocky-FM said:
So they allow images of children, like creepy modelling channels but not comments, makes sense.
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as he said .. if they have the means to identify the videos , just remove, or privatise them.

I rarely read comments, do the browser add-ons to suppress them signifucantly reduce cpu resources ?

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coincidentally , instagram was announced as a principal offender today
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...me-police-report-nspcc-children-a8801876.html
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jpaul said:
as he said .. if they have the means to identify the videos , just remove, or privatise them.
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I've not actually read the BBC article, but from what I know from other sources it was about innocent videos of minors (someone's kid in a paddling pool) that paedophiles would tag in the comments to make them easier to find by other paedophiles. Would it be right to just remove the video?
 
jpaul said:
In defense of the title the BBC misrepresented youtube intention



as he said .. if they have the means to identify the videos , just remove, or privatise them.

I rarely read comments, do the browser add-ons to suppress them signifucantly reduce cpu resources ?

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coincidentally , instagram was announced as a principal offender today
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...me-police-report-nspcc-children-a8801876.html
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Hardly surprising, narcissistic ******** it happens to present itself as.

Instagram needs to die a swift death for the farce it’s made of easily misled children/adolescents/adult babies in some eternal mission for vain, irrelevant acceptance by peers who don’t care.
 
How will an algorithm identify people under 18, if your average human being can't accurately do that either?
 
AndyCr15 said:
Would it be right to just remove the video?
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yes, or hide it so just privately accessible by the creator/publisher(youtubes devicive community terminology) -
the mentaility of the 'parents' who post it, for general public consumption, in the first place, has to be questioned (what is their socio-economic strata.)
... ok it just a continuum of the material adults publish about themselves. (fad'ish diets or ill informed medical advice)

Since the legislative bodies seem unable to fix the youtube/fb problem, maybe the advertisers (Nestle, disney ...) will instill some social responsibility


It would be interesting to know how good the image recognition software is that utube may use to triage videos.
 
Youtube will disable comments by default, is very very .......very different to Youtube will ban comments.....******* reporting done so badly it should be banned!
 
It's sad that parents are so hopeless these days that mass censorship is being done under the guise of protecting the children, only 10 years ago government was advising parents to monitor children online which is how it should be but then again, I know someone whose autistic son keeps running up thousands of pounds of bills phoning sex hotlines and it doesn't seem to have occured to her to get him a PAYG with limited credit instead of a contract phone. We're sleeping walking into a totalitarian state because of too many stupid people. If people are making sexual comments towards children on social media it's the parents responsiblity to protect them and police responsiblity to do their job towards anyone acting illegally. Once again the victim is free speech, 99.9% of comments and discussion which would have been fine will get shut down because of a few extreme cases that are being blown all out of proportion and once again private corporations with their own agendas and political stances are the ones doing the censoring.
 
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I don't know if this as been said before in the thread, and I just found out recently.

One of the channels I watch is of an American couple living in UK. They make videos about their experiences of UK life and compare them to the American way of life. Some videos have their kids in with them, one is a baby and the other is probably about 5 or 6. I noticed in the channel (not video) comments section, which seems to pop up when using the youtube phone app, that they said that people noticed the comments were disabled on some of their older videos and they were going back through to turn the comments on.

So it sounded to me like youtube is auto disabling comments but the youtuber can turn them back on. I'm not sure if this is the case for every video channel or certain ones.
 
mmj_uk said:
It's sad that parents are so hopeless these days that mass censorship is being done under the guise of protecting the children, only 10 years ago government was advising parents to monitor children online which is how it should be but then again, I know someone whose autistic son keeps running up thousands of pounds of bills phoning sex hotlines and it doesn't seem to have occured to her to get him a PAYG with limited credit instead of a contract phone. We're sleeping walking into a totalitarian state because of too many stupid people. If people are making sexual comments towards children on social media it's the parents responsiblity to protect them and police responsiblity to do their job towards anyone acting illegally. Once again the victim is free speech, 99.9% of comments and discussion which would have been fine will get shut down because of a few extreme cases that are being blown all out of proportion and once again private corporations with their own agendas and political stances are the ones doing the censoring.
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YouTube give you the option of comments, it’s not mandatory.

They can take the option away, it’s not censorship if the rules change.

Your opinion is not consistent, either you want private enterprise to do as they please with no regulations or you want to force them to be do what you want. You can’t keep saying both.
 
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