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The obvious solution to me is to just ask users how old they are. Parents should be supervising enough to do this for their young kids. Maybe let you lock an ag
by p1necone 7y ago
The obvious solution to me is to just ask users how old they are. Parents should be supervising enough to do this for their young kids. Maybe let you lock an age restricted account logged in.
If you're not supervising enough to notice your kid clearing history/cookies to get "adult" access then that's on you. It's not clear to me that youtube should be expected to police this very strongly, especially when sites like pornhub or liveleak are a few keystrokes away.
- drdeadringer 7y agoI agree on a lot of this. The sceptical and possibly modernly-ignorant part of me is stuck in 1997 clicking "Yes I Am Over 18". I must be missing 20 years of Internet Technology Advancement somewhere and am open to edification.
- dodobirdlord 7y agoThey do/have. You have to be 13+ to make an account. This was apparently not enough to avoid a $170 million dollar fine [0] and now it's apparently time for absurdly vague but extremely threatening regulatory guidance [1]. Doesn't seem like there is much option at this point other than massive disaster response. [0] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/09/google-youtube-will-pay-record-170-million-alleged-violations https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/09/googl... [1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2019/11/youtube-channel-owners-your-content-directed-children https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2019/11/...