Post by Belchic on Nov 24, 2019 0:45:48 GMT -5
Okay, I feel I really need to talk about this here, because nobody else is talking about it here, and this story is all over the Internet, and it’s very serious, and it could affect most if not all of us here. I am talking, of course, about COPPA and how they are planning to change YouTube.
From what I understand, COPPA is forcing some changes to all the content on YouTube to see what will be appropriate for kids to watch and what would not be. Now, this is something I have known about since September, and at first, I thought it wasn’t that big of a deal, but recently, I have gotten more information on it, and now, it’s sounding a lot worse!
Based on what I know, the government is going to look at every single video on YouTube and see what videos are appropriate for kids or not. If a video is flagged as kid friendly, then comments will be disabled from it, and it will be unsearchable on YouTube. To me, this isn’t too much of a big deal. After all, it’ll save me a headache of having to put up with constantly getting comment notifications in my inbox. Being someone who has a YouTube account, I was planning on just marking my content as not kid friendly, which a lot of it is since I have videos that contain profanity and risqué content. However, I heard someone say it won’t work that way. If they see any videos that have something that would be considered kids content like cartoons or video games, they will flag it as kid friendly. But this is the part I’m most worried about: if you mark your videos as not friendly for kids, and the government disagrees with you, then you will be fined $45 MILLION PER VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If that is true, then that means I will have to go to jail for not being able to pay the fine!
Before you guys jump to any conclusions saying this is just SOPA, or the FCC, or Net Neutrality all over again, it’s not! This is for real! This is being organized by our actual government! I know this for a fact because I’ve been getting emails from the YouTube staff about this, and I’ve been hearing it on the news, so I know it’s for real this time!
This was originally going to take affect on December 10, but they’ve postponed it to January 1.
I am extremely worried about this not because of the whole changes being made for YouTube Kids. What I’m worried about is being forced to pay the fines. Though even if my videos do get marked as kid friendly, I could still get in trouble for them because of the profanity and risqué content like in my YouTube Poops or my MLP reviews or my rants. What am I supposed to do? Just delete all my content entirely? I’m not going to go through the effort of moving to another website like Dailymotion because I don’t have the time, and I already have enough things going on in my life stressing me out as it is!
If anyone has any more information on this COPPA thing and how it could affect people like me, please discuss it here!
From what I understand, COPPA is forcing some changes to all the content on YouTube to see what will be appropriate for kids to watch and what would not be. Now, this is something I have known about since September, and at first, I thought it wasn’t that big of a deal, but recently, I have gotten more information on it, and now, it’s sounding a lot worse!
Based on what I know, the government is going to look at every single video on YouTube and see what videos are appropriate for kids or not. If a video is flagged as kid friendly, then comments will be disabled from it, and it will be unsearchable on YouTube. To me, this isn’t too much of a big deal. After all, it’ll save me a headache of having to put up with constantly getting comment notifications in my inbox. Being someone who has a YouTube account, I was planning on just marking my content as not kid friendly, which a lot of it is since I have videos that contain profanity and risqué content. However, I heard someone say it won’t work that way. If they see any videos that have something that would be considered kids content like cartoons or video games, they will flag it as kid friendly. But this is the part I’m most worried about: if you mark your videos as not friendly for kids, and the government disagrees with you, then you will be fined $45 MILLION PER VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If that is true, then that means I will have to go to jail for not being able to pay the fine!
Before you guys jump to any conclusions saying this is just SOPA, or the FCC, or Net Neutrality all over again, it’s not! This is for real! This is being organized by our actual government! I know this for a fact because I’ve been getting emails from the YouTube staff about this, and I’ve been hearing it on the news, so I know it’s for real this time!
This was originally going to take affect on December 10, but they’ve postponed it to January 1.
I am extremely worried about this not because of the whole changes being made for YouTube Kids. What I’m worried about is being forced to pay the fines. Though even if my videos do get marked as kid friendly, I could still get in trouble for them because of the profanity and risqué content like in my YouTube Poops or my MLP reviews or my rants. What am I supposed to do? Just delete all my content entirely? I’m not going to go through the effort of moving to another website like Dailymotion because I don’t have the time, and I already have enough things going on in my life stressing me out as it is!
If anyone has any more information on this COPPA thing and how it could affect people like me, please discuss it here!