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Okay so this happened a couple weeks ago but is kinda like, important to bring up and discuss.
So back in September, YouTube got fined 170 million by the FTC for being caught violaitng COPPA: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/4/2...rivacy-violations-fine-170-milliion-coppa-ads
COPPA is a law that states that you are not allowed to collect data on anyone under 13 online. The law is old, but occasionally gets revised to account for changes to the internet (if I recall correctly, once a decade). So far, the idea always has been that as long as you don't explicitly state that you're collecting data on children and that you terminate any accounts ran by children you would be fine under COPPA.
YouTube instead bragged about how popular their platform was to children with corporate investors and as a result, they got the aforementioned fine.
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Now why I bring this up: As a part of this fine, YouTube has to start implementing systems that determine whether content is meant for children or not. Right now, for most content creators on YouTube, they have an option to mark their videos or their complete channel as "for children" and "not for children". If a video is marked as for children, it will disable every single feature YouTube offers for a video aside from watching the video and cuts advertisement revenue (already not great) by around 90%.
On paper? Shit, but hey one could just mark their videos as being not for the kids and be fine right? Nope. YouTube is running their own bots and algorithms to determine if a video is for kids, and if it thinks it is, it will mark it as for kids anyway and there's no ability to appeal their decision.
In addition, the FTC has explicitly stated that they plan on fining content creators who are not appropriately marking their videos as being for kids for up to 42000 USD per video when their new policy goes into effect on January 1st, 2020.
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/4/2...rivacy-violations-fine-170-milliion-coppa-ads and https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13...coppa-ftc-fine-settlement-youtubers-new-rules
So back in September, YouTube got fined 170 million by the FTC for being caught violaitng COPPA: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/4/2...rivacy-violations-fine-170-milliion-coppa-ads
COPPA is a law that states that you are not allowed to collect data on anyone under 13 online. The law is old, but occasionally gets revised to account for changes to the internet (if I recall correctly, once a decade). So far, the idea always has been that as long as you don't explicitly state that you're collecting data on children and that you terminate any accounts ran by children you would be fine under COPPA.
YouTube instead bragged about how popular their platform was to children with corporate investors and as a result, they got the aforementioned fine.
--
Now why I bring this up: As a part of this fine, YouTube has to start implementing systems that determine whether content is meant for children or not. Right now, for most content creators on YouTube, they have an option to mark their videos or their complete channel as "for children" and "not for children". If a video is marked as for children, it will disable every single feature YouTube offers for a video aside from watching the video and cuts advertisement revenue (already not great) by around 90%.
On paper? Shit, but hey one could just mark their videos as being not for the kids and be fine right? Nope. YouTube is running their own bots and algorithms to determine if a video is for kids, and if it thinks it is, it will mark it as for kids anyway and there's no ability to appeal their decision.
In addition, the FTC has explicitly stated that they plan on fining content creators who are not appropriately marking their videos as being for kids for up to 42000 USD per video when their new policy goes into effect on January 1st, 2020.
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/4/2...rivacy-violations-fine-170-milliion-coppa-ads and https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13...coppa-ftc-fine-settlement-youtubers-new-rules
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