YouTube Wants Parents To Have More Control Over What Children Watch Online
- 6 years ago
YouTube Wants Parents To Have More Control Over What Children Watch Online
YouTube has been grappling with how to moderate its content recently. While many advertisers withdrew their ads from the video sharing platform at the start of the year, a New York Times report published on Nov. 8 blamed the platform for exposing children to strange and somewhat disturbing videos.
Strange and disturbing videos on YouTube, specifically aimed at kids, seem to have morphed into a genre by itself. To resolve this, the company announced in August that it will stop letting content creators monetize videos that made "inappropriate use of family-friendly characters."
The company is now implementing new age restrictions that will lead to better filtering of videos. Similar to rival video site, Dailymotion’s Age Gate, the company will implement Age Restricts that will flag inappropriate content.
"We’re in the process of implementing a new policy that age restricts this content in the YouTube main app when flagged. Age-restricted content is automatically not allowed in YouTube Kids," Juniper Downs, YouTube’s director of policy told the Verge on Thursday.
YouTube has been grappling with how to moderate its content recently. While many advertisers withdrew their ads from the video sharing platform at the start of the year, a New York Times report published on Nov. 8 blamed the platform for exposing children to strange and somewhat disturbing videos.
Strange and disturbing videos on YouTube, specifically aimed at kids, seem to have morphed into a genre by itself. To resolve this, the company announced in August that it will stop letting content creators monetize videos that made "inappropriate use of family-friendly characters."
The company is now implementing new age restrictions that will lead to better filtering of videos. Similar to rival video site, Dailymotion’s Age Gate, the company will implement Age Restricts that will flag inappropriate content.
"We’re in the process of implementing a new policy that age restricts this content in the YouTube main app when flagged. Age-restricted content is automatically not allowed in YouTube Kids," Juniper Downs, YouTube’s director of policy told the Verge on Thursday.