Youtube policy changes regarding children's content

[the khat quaffer]

I hate youtube, susan wojewski, and 99.999% of those social media faggot content creators with a burning mildewy passion so anything that puts another nail in its coffin is a-okay with me.

 

[AnOminous]

The question, as I've said before, all comes down to how well they can enforce this thing. I have doubts they'll crack down on the whole site, but could they go after the more notable cases? Yeah, they absolutely could.

It's a $42K fine per violation, so if they do a sweep and pick up a few thousand, that adds up really quickly. After a few $50 million size fines, YouTube will have an incentive to do more effective policing of their own. More likely they'll just use the threat of these penalties to force YouTube to do whatever they feel like, since there's no way to enforce this bullshit effectively.

 

[Shambler]

my very optimistic prediction is that so many of phils videos get flagged by the FTC that it forces youtube to dedicate an entire team to efficiently determine if content is actually child friendly and or deserves targeted ads

 

[Prince Lotor]

So apparently COPPA has exemptions written into if for mixed/general audience content. Someone working at YouTube called this lawyer to point out the exemption in the law and say YouTube knew about this but ignored it when setting up the new system because they thought they would lose money, so again YouTube made a headache for creators and completely ignored transparency because they thought they might lose money. YouTube is run by incompetents, but it's the FTC investigating and enforcing this so I would think they will enforce the actual law. It's looking iffy on exactly what kind of a shitshow this is going to be, but it will certainly be some kind of shitshow.

 

[LavosReee]

So apparently COPPA has exemptions written into if for mixed/general audience content.

Dark will skate. He'll just claim that he does kid-unfriendly stuff like curse and beg for tips. Not a huge surprise. The Youtube sweeps to find children's entertainment will demonetize a bunch of his videos, which will be a week-long rant.

It's still super unclear on a few fronts though.

 

[Forbidden Math]

Dark will skate. He'll just claim that he does kid-unfriendly stuff like curse and beg for tips. Not a huge surprise. The Youtube sweeps to find children's entertainment will demonetize a bunch of his videos, which will be a week-long rant.

It's still super unclear on a few fronts though.

This is what I am guessing will happen too, at least so long as the the FTC doesn't just decide to take Youtube's "all or nothing" stance at face value and actually enforce it, which would be weird to enforce something in a way they said they don't want to.

Honestly it's a shame we have to wait until January 1st to see what the outcome will be (and even later because things won't instantly happen), it could go so many ways. Still I'd say DSP's odds are looking pretty good right now just based on the FTC not wanting to nail mixed content creators.

 

[AnOminous]

YouTube is run by incompetents, but it's the FTC investigating and enforcing this so I would think they will enforce the actual law.

YouTube is what kicks and demonetizes you, just like they enforce the DMCA but laugh at the parts that don't favor them. If they decide to just steal your money or otherwise fuck you over, either on your own merit or just in a batch of thousands of people fucked over just like you, they will.

 

[That Hedonist Nerd]

YouTube is what kicks and demonetizes you, just like they enforce the DMCA but laugh at the parts that don't favor them. If they decide to just steal your money or otherwise fuck you over, either on your own merit or just in a batch of thousands of people fucked over just like you, they will.

Oh, so YouTube is like a PayPal for videos. Got it.