New YouTube policy tackles disturbing videos aimed at children
by Michelle Stein posted in Parenting
Following a swarm of negative attention, YouTube is taking another step toward preventing disturbing content from reaching children.
In August, YouTube stopped allowing creators to monetize videos that "made inappropriate use of family friendly characters," according to The Verge. But that still didn't stop some creators from continuing to target kids with disturbing content. And, unfortunately, violent videos have still managed to make it past automated YouTube filters and to unsuspecting children.
Now, the company has announced a new policy that will put age restrictions on videos featuring "inappropriate use of family entertainment characters," reports The Guardian." Videos targeted by these policies likely include  the one below -- which features disturbing/violent scenes of Elsa, Spiderman, the Joker and more familiar characters beating each other up and engaging in a shoot-off with automatic weapons. Yeah. Inappropriate is putting it mildly.
There's also a particularly worrisome video in which Peppa Pig is essentially tortured at the dentist office. (Which seems to have been removed. Thank. God.) But the list of disturbing content goes on. And on.
This new age restriction policy prevents users from watching if a) They aren't logged in, or b) If anyone who is registered as younger than 18 attempts to view it, reports The Guardian. Additionally, age-restricted videos are automatically blocked from Y...
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