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> YouTube completely disabled all comments on videos featuring children, and deleted all existing comments. This sounds like a good mitigation step to me, cons
by j2kun 7y ago
> YouTube completely disabled all comments on videos featuring children, and deleted all existing comments.
This sounds like a good mitigation step to me, considering that we're talking about child predators. The incentives are aligned properly here.
- DuskStar 7y ago> The incentives are aligned properly here. You sure about that? To me it seems like YouTube's incentives are to minimize the chances of advertiser irritation, while the incentives of the children would be to maximize their engagement while minimizing (the impact of) predation. Getting rid of children's channels entirely would be an acceptable outcome for YouTube, but I doubt the children in question would agree.