Watch this video to understand what’s whappening, but as a general TLDR, if The Children’s online privacy protection act is inforced on Youtube, youtube content as we know it will change forever.
If you don’t have time to watch the video let me summarize it (and other videos on the topic) for you
One of the things COPPA prohibits is the use of personalized ads (Ads based on your location, age, sex, gender, interests, basically all the data that is collected through use of the internet) for children under the age of 13. For this, Youtube was fined and now they’re making changes to the way the platform works.
One of these changes is making creators mark their content as “Meant for kids” or not. However there are a wide range of items that, on youtube’s eyes, classifies as children media.
So basically if your video contains something that falls under any of these categories, even if its just one, and a minor thing, youtube can flag it as kids video and apply the new restrictions to this video or even your channel as a whole. And if youtube’s automated system finds any of these things in a video NOT catered for children, it can penalize you both by applying these restrictions anyways, striking you, or fining you for breaking the law
This is a snippet of a complaint made to be submitted to COPPAS’ feedback page, since they saw how problematic this act and laws can be. The whole complaint was written by a mexican youtube channel called Alfrely, and it reads:
YouTube viewers and creators petition the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to clarify and reconsider the new Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA Rule) regulations on YouTube creators. Shutting off personalized ads on creators’ content will cause more harm than good, especially for children. Quality family-friendly content will shrink, while more mature content will grow — yet kids will still be watching. The FTC should not expand COPPA regulations for content creators. Broadening the definition of “child-directed” to include “child-attractive” would force many more creators to turn off personalized ads. As a result, even more quality content will dry up, and more mature and extreme content will fill the platform. The free YouTube Kids app is a better solution than regulation targeting family-friendly creators. YouTube Kids removes privacy concerns around personalized ads. Parents buy devices and allow their children to watch YouTube Main. Many parents prefer to use YouTube Main because it has more features and less barriers. Creators should not be punished when parents choose not to use YouTube Kids. COPPA is about putting parents in control of protecting their children’s personal information online. The FTC should not use COPPA to remove parents from the process in regulating content and online advertising. While large corporations will survive these changes, small business creators face terminating employees, changing their business model, or shutting down production altogether. These regulations will particularly hurt young underserved audiences who participate in YouTube communities on topics like special needs, faith, and minority groups. Limiting quality free content for kids expands the digital divide. Turning off personalized ads on kids’ content also encourages increased product placement and brand deals within kids’ content. Creators face COPPA fines up to $42,530 per video, yet the regulation and definition of “child-directed” is vague. The FTC needs to provide creators with enforcement clarity. We ask the FTC to:
1. Provide an enforcement statement for creators
2. Clarify the definition of “child-directed,” and not expand it to cover “child-attractive” content 3. Delay enforcement against creators until the FTC concludes its review of COPPA
4. Allow parents to use YouTube Kids or YouTube Main, without forcing creators to turn off personalized ads when parents choose to use YouTube Main
Now onto another point:
The woman from the video replies
“We will start limiting the data we collect from ‘Made for kids content’ to comply with the law.”
The changes that will be applied to these videos are:
Comments
Personalized ads
Info cards
End screens
Stories
Community tab
Notification bell
Ability to “Save to watch later” or add to playlists, just to name the ones listed.
You basically get stripped of everything that makes youtube, youtube.
This change basically encourages content creators that live off the platform to create content that DOESN’T cater to children, creating more mature content that is already frowned upon on youtube and by advertisers, and will inevitaly make kids continue to consume media that is not for them
Not to mention that things like cartoons and videogames will be among the things that people won’t talk about.
Big corporations will always find a way to make this work, and the people who depend on youtube for a living may also find a way to make this work, but at the end of the day, it will ruin the careers and possibly the lives of many many creators, maybe even creators that you enjoy.
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS. THE MORE PEOPLE SUBMITTING FEEDBACK TO THE FTC, THE MORE CHANCES TO SAVE THIS WE HAVE. DON’T SLEEP ON THIS.
I’m not good at making any posts like these so I may be forgetting things or saying something wrong so please reblog and correct me or add to what I’m saying. Spread the word.
TL;DR for what I’m about to say: YouTube is trying to avoid proper responsibility for children’s safety on their platform by severely restricting their content with criteria almost universally applicable to the content of their platform.
this is a bad and terrible take. Complain to YouTube itself and not the FTC, their proposed solution is lazy and ineffective. I cannot believe you’d argue this is the FTCs responsibility when youtube can quite literally just stop collecting unreasonable amounts of data on children. They are trying to make you angry at the wrong thing. YouTube made these changes, they are badly designed, nonspecific, and so broad as to be functionally meaninglessness, exactly like most youtube criteria. How are you going to consider the law literally called the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act to be the problem here? A law who’s stated purpose is to protect children from exposure to risky online situations via targeted advertising?
The role of the parent is clear and defined in COPPA. It is not absent.
YouTube is trying to escape a reasonable regulation by making its own solution absurd and harmful. Would it be too much to ask that companies comply with laws, again, designed to protect children.
Eh, just hit it’s weak point for massive damage. Usually the best way to get rid of those things.
I don’t know if you have considered this but stop smoking in areas where people are forced to wait at. Don’t smoke at crosswalks. Don’t smoke outside doorways. Don’t smoke at bus stops. People with asthma or other breathing conditions or people that idk DON’T WANT TO BREATHE IN YOUR CIGARETTE SMOKE are trying to get to places and need to be able to breathe. Stop smoking in crowded areas. stop smoking in crowded areas. STOP FORCING NONSMOKERS TO SECOND HAND SMOKE.
+ please don’t force your pets to be in a place where they have no choice but to inhale this smoke either.
I don’t know if u considered this but ppl who struggle with addiction don’t really respond well to rejection and isolation and condemnation but whatever your royal highness
People with severe lung disorders respond even worse to smoke inhalation and if you think that isn’t a priority then I don’t even know what to tell you..
“I want to live”
“Lol, ok princess”
Smoker here.
Yeah, heres the thing, yeah I’m an addict, but that’s literally no excuse to expose others to it.
The ONLY time I smoke at a cross walk, or any other public area is when I’m alone.
If I’m near people (more specifically, friends or a group of people I’m talking with) I stand downwind, I blow my smoke, downwind, I respect other people right to not get lung cancer.
If kids are able to see me, but not close enough to get exposed to smoke, I hide that shit, I’m not trying to make kids think it’s cool.
If a kid is close enough to get exp to smoke, that shit it get put out and hidden.
If I’m out in a public place (with no one around, as stated above) guess where I put the cigarette butt when I’m done with it (and theres no butt can) in my pocket, I dont want to litter or expose animals to the toxins that are in a used cigarette butt.
If I can put forth the minimal effort to not expose people to my cancer sticks, so can every other smoker.
Dont be a dick.
(P.S. that comment about isolation, there are smoking areas for a reason, and every smoking area I’ve ever been to is a social hotspot, you aren’t alone 99% of the time. And even if you were, too fucking bad, we’re choosing to expose ourselves to cigarette smoke, dont force it onto other people, especially if you consider them your friends.)
I had somebody who insisted on standing upwind of a bus stop and smoking. To get upwind of him I had to stand a LONG way away from the stop. I’m allergic to something in commercial cigarettes. Not life threatening epipen level allergic, but not slightly allergic either.
His response “You can stand in the shelter.”
It was 100 degrees. The shelter was glass. I anticipate it was about 120 degrees in the shelter.
And I spent several months working at a place with a very nice park outside. I had to stop going out there to eat lunch because every single day I would sit on a bench, start eating, and a smoker would sit right next to me without asking and light up. And expect me to move when I was there first.
Yes, you have an addiction, but it isn’t an excuse to be an asshole. I get that you may not be able to just quit, but if you are preventing people from eating their lunch in peace, you are an asshole.
technology related sensory memories from my childhood
sliding the metal cover on floppy disks
the slight resistance of inserting cassette and video tapes
ripping off the strips of holed paper off of dot matrix printer paper
rolling the wheel on a disposable camera to take another photo
The heaviness and rubber texture of the roller ball in a computer mouse, and the little ring of lint
Unkinking the curly cord of a telephone while you talked
The -peww sound and slowly fading image of a crt monitor turning off, and then running your finger through the static on the dusty glass
The crunch of opening or closing a plastic Disney vhs cover
The sound effects in kidpix
Extending and collapsing metal antennas and using them as magic wands
…God, it is so weird these things aren’t around any more. Cause it’s true, the sensations are so distinct. It’s bizarre to think about missing these tiny relics.
“I like your mother. You have your mother’s breasts.”
“Her breasts.”
“Great stand-up tits,” he said.]
sorry I think we’re sleeping on
This author is either writing a parody or they’re an alien
this is Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo. it’s a really weird novel about a man going to get a haircut that’s also a pretty explicit criticism of the 1%.
the main character is a multimillionaire who’s so fixated on money and materialism that he’s basically forgotten how to be a normal human being and connect with people. that conversation above is him talking to his new wife. at one point, he even says something like, “this is good. we are having a conversation. this is what people do.”
Fun fact: there is a film version of this amazing book. It was directed by David Cronenberg, who loved the book so much he basically used it like a script. Even better, it stars Robert Pattinson, and was pretty much his break away from the Twilight movies (it came out around the same time as the last one; he ditched that nonsense hardcore).
Fantastic book and a great movie. If you’re curious, I highly recommend checking them both out!
