YouTube To Implement New Guidelines To Protect Minors From Disturbing Content (cnet.com) 95
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.
"New Guidelines" (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm guessing they will involve not sharing ad revenue with smaller youtube creators. Just a hunch.
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That's not new though. It was called the adpocalypse. Unless you have a REALLY big channel or are in Youtube's in-group you already have a hard time to monetize your content.
How about common sense? (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
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You can't fight the machine.
What is being quite literately dumped on youtube are computer generated music videos/nursery rhymes/childrens songs that are generated and animated entirely by machine, and it's resulting in some substantially disturbing content. All in the name of trying to milk money from advertisers while doing almost no actual work.
This is not really aimed at the predatory type of content (eg revenge porn, cyberbullying and similar themes) though I suppose it helps curb that and the doxxing t
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In case parents give their offsprings access to the digital equivalent of a sharp tool they have to supervise them.
YouTube Kids containing hidden horror shows is the equivalent of the Disney Channel broadcasting Mickey Mouse murdering his friends. The difference being that there are actually rules for what is ok to be broadcast on TV and the Disney Channel would be fined for that kind of gross neglect.
That's cute. (Score:3, Interesting)
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?
Simple guidelines for parents (Score:2)
Re:Simple guidelines for parents (Score:5, Insightful)
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*
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I had better not tell you how we do parenting it seems. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't approve :D.
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Karmic hilarity hit with the shitstorm of 'omg they were watching porn [on youtube no less] for the last few months'... with the tirade on THAT interrupted with the younger walking in, parrot racist phrases like some Go
Re:Simple guidelines for parents (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
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Now I am picturing a new adventure of Letterman (if anyone here is old enough to remember the original Electric Company).
In this one, the evil Spellbinder takes note of a hipster douche sporting a goatee. And with a wave of his magic wand, our villain changes the first e into an s, causing the douche to now be sporting a goatse.
And then faster than a rolling O, stronger than silent e, able to leap capital T in a single bound; it's a word, it's a plan, it's Letterman!!! But instead of damaging yet another
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I was watching a video of GrandPooBear, a streamer on Twitch. Someone in his chat mentioned that they entertain their baby with his streams, to which his response was "don't blame me if his first word is twot-bucket".
I'm not sure what a twot-bucket is exactly, but from context I gather that this would be an undesirable outcome.
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If youtube wants to do anything to help parents, they should make it so they (parents) can white list the videos their kids can watch.
It shouldn't be youtube's job to determine what the kids can and can't watch. That is up to the parents.
Re: Simple guidelines for parents (Score:2)
It IS YouTube's job.... the second the added the 'Kids' label. That gives them a level of responsibility much greater than just a 13 & older general video service.
Cause for random playlist strikes? (Score:1)
> 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.
Seems messed up. (Score:2)
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Trust the corporations to protect your children from things that might make them think.
It's the parents' responsibility. If the parents aren't up to the task they should be sterilized.
This leaves them utterly unprepared for reality! (Score:1)
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,
And then they get into real combat
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Because our economy doesn't need responsible adults but adult kids with credit cards that are legally fully responsible for their irresponsibility.
Thank God (Score:4, Insightful)
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The price paid was too high, though.
Now YouTube is the same boring, bland mix of idiotic home videos and worthless whitewashed commentary TV has become. Anything that could remotely be controversial or an invitation for a debate is gone.
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So far the theory.
What this means, though, is that the only ones that can continue to make videos (unless they're rich or have some independent source of income) are those that get paid to make those videos by "supporters". Well, take a wild guess where this is heading.
Because if you want me to support you, you better broadcast a message that I like!
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So far the theory.
What this means, though, is that the only ones that can continue to make videos (unless they're rich or have some independent source of income) are those that get paid to make those videos by "supporters".
In other words, back to reality as it has always been. Making and distributing content costs money. These days, it costs less than it ever has before, but it's still not free. Actually, YouTube is still offering to do the distribution part for free, even for content that no advertiser wishes to support. That's a pretty incredible deal. You can broadcast video to the entire world, as much as you want, for nothing. YouTube will even store your video and serve it on demand, at no cost whatsoever to you.
Grant
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The difference is the threshold. People are far easier convinced to give you time (i.e. watch your junk and the ads it comes with) than money.
What do you mean (Score:2)
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The sad part is that it is Hollywood level content. With fewer explosions, I give you that.
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I've tried, but pound for pound, coal simply has the higher calorific value.
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Won't someone think of the minors?
Ironically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
bs call (Score:2)
That could be solved SO easily (Score:2)
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 th
As a parent.... (Score:2)
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 pa
As long as they get rid of nasty cartoons. (Score:1)
Wash, Rinse, Repeat (Score:2)
The Public: Twitter seems full of bullies, jihadis, pedophiles, and trolls.
YouTube: Great! We'll crack down on Right-wing content!
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I mean, the modern American Right has a lot of bullies, pedophiles, and trolls in it, and the jihadis just don't call themselves that.
Wrong (Score:2)
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.
Blocking inappropriate comments on videos... (Score:2)
Exactly who's call is this? And will it be regionally implemented.
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It'll be automated, of course. This is google, so I'd expect something a bit more sophisticated than a bad-word-list, but similar in concept.
I have a problem with Youtube's post (Score:2)
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 th
Great New Idea! (Score:1)