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It's even in the YouTube algorithm. I've had a couple of videos taken down due to "potential child endangerment". They were videos of me and my kid doing things

It's even in the YouTube algorithm. I've had a couple of videos taken down due to "potential child endangerment". They were videos of me and my kid doing things that are, realistically, safer than riding a bicycle. It's pathetic how fragile kids are being made these days.

gsk22 4y ago
Out of curiosity, what were the videos? The algorithm (advertisers?) is certainly picky...
- geomark 4y ago
  The most recent was when my kid did a review of two different multitools. Within five minutes of uploading it YouTube had taken it down due to "potential child endangerment."
  - iLoveOncall 4y ago
    Yeah, it's child endangerment to put your kid on YouTube.
    - geomark 4y ago
      As long as it's something sterile like playing video games it's fine. But as soon as a kid does something with a bit of substance it becomes child endangerment.
throw10920 4y ago
The YouTube rules are completely insane. Whoever makes them has totally lost their mind. For instance, YouTube recently implemented a policy such that they now demonitize videos that contain profanity in the first 15 seconds - AND THIS APPLIES RETROACTIVELY TO VIDEOS RELEASED BEFORE THE POLICY WAS CHANGED. Between that, the downvote count being removed, random demonetizations, mysterious channel shadowbans, the DMCA travesty, YouTube Rewind, and the "misinformation" rules, YouTube is a complete trash fire. Nobody sane believes that the YouTube rules are reasonable.
- philistine 4y ago
  Hey hey! Don't correlate the immemorial art of travesting oneself with the disgrace that is the DMCA.
- nullc 4y ago
  > AND THIS APPLIES RETROACTIVELY TO VIDEOS RELEASED BEFORE THE POLICY WAS CHANGED. Which you can't edit without deleting and reuploading, breaking links, view counts, etc, right? Does youtube happen to still show ads on those videos but now just pocket all the income?
  - rtkwe 4y ago
    I think you could edit it in YT studio and leave it in place. And AFAIK demonetize means no ads. The whole thing is a brand safety kick so it doesn’t really make much sense to “demonetize” and still show ads.
- sedawk 4y ago
  > The YouTube rules are completely insane. > Whoever makes them has totally lost their mind. I don't think then problem is entirely YouTube per-se for some of the rules, it is the "people" who demand they do certain things a certain way. And by the "people", I mean (to lesser extent) us, the viewers; but mostly the advertisers, the mega-corps with deep pockets who want to be as far away as possible from everything that's not seen as sanitized humanity. YouTube, then, like most capitalist entities, is merely incentivized to gravitate towards something, anything really, that will maximize their bottom line.
carabiner 4y ago
Ugh. The sanitized humanity of googlers will ruin the world.

gsk22 4y ago

Out of curiosity, what were the videos? The algorithm (advertisers?) is certainly picky...

geomark 4y ago
The most recent was when my kid did a review of two different multitools. Within five minutes of uploading it YouTube had taken it down due to "potential child endangerment."
- iLoveOncall 4y ago
  Yeah, it's child endangerment to put your kid on YouTube.
  - geomark 4y ago
    As long as it's something sterile like playing video games it's fine. But as soon as a kid does something with a bit of substance it becomes child endangerment.

throw10920 4y ago

The YouTube rules are completely insane. Whoever makes them has totally lost their mind. For instance, YouTube recently implemented a policy such that they now demonitize videos that contain profanity in the first 15 seconds - AND THIS APPLIES RETROACTIVELY TO VIDEOS RELEASED BEFORE THE POLICY WAS CHANGED. Between that, the downvote count being removed, random demonetizations, mysterious channel shadowbans, the DMCA travesty, YouTube Rewind, and the "misinformation" rules, YouTube is a complete trash fire. Nobody sane believes that the YouTube rules are reasonable.

philistine 4y ago
Hey hey! Don't correlate the immemorial art of travesting oneself with the disgrace that is the DMCA.
nullc 4y ago
> AND THIS APPLIES RETROACTIVELY TO VIDEOS RELEASED BEFORE THE POLICY WAS CHANGED. Which you can't edit without deleting and reuploading, breaking links, view counts, etc, right? Does youtube happen to still show ads on those videos but now just pocket all the income?
- rtkwe 4y ago
  I think you could edit it in YT studio and leave it in place. And AFAIK demonetize means no ads. The whole thing is a brand safety kick so it doesn’t really make much sense to “demonetize” and still show ads.
sedawk 4y ago
> The YouTube rules are completely insane. > Whoever makes them has totally lost their mind. I don't think then problem is entirely YouTube per-se for some of the rules, it is the "people" who demand they do certain things a certain way. And by the "people", I mean (to lesser extent) us, the viewers; but mostly the advertisers, the mega-corps with deep pockets who want to be as far away as possible from everything that's not seen as sanitized humanity. YouTube, then, like most capitalist entities, is merely incentivized to gravitate towards something, anything really, that will maximize their bottom line.

carabiner 4y ago

Ugh. The sanitized humanity of googlers will ruin the world.