What's Gone Wrong With the FTC's COPPA Agreement With YouTube

Sources:

Commissioner Slaughter's Statement [PDF]
Chairman Simon & Commissioner Wilson's Statement [PDF]

While voluntary content flagging is useful and a good measure, and some measure of automated detection is likely necessary, YouTube’s response has been deliberately broad, utilizing their status as a monopoly in online video to force creators to bear the burdens of compliance without providing them with the tools and data to do so in a meaningful, educated manner.
Written and performed by Dan Olson

[grfrjiglstan]

The new scariest five words you'll ever hear: "Introducing Youtube's new automated system".

[samsonfgc]

I love how the YouTube game is now "be advertiser friendly or be demonotized but not too friendly or else you're now kid friendly and now you're suuuuper demonotized."

[timothymclean]

I'm impressed by how YouTube has weaponized it's history of infamously bad communication.

[nope]

This is extremely insidious and disgusting.
The moment I heard about this case I immediately thought about how YouTube could easily stop targeting children with ads.

[reaganbartels]

It was a wise man who once said: "Platforms aren't your friends".

[LimeyLassen]

Everyone: The algorithm is the problem, not the creators
Youtube: *More algorithm? Well if you insist*

[Rainbow-Reilly]

What really gets me is that YouTube has spent the past few years discouraging creators from producing anything but all-ages content through the threat of demonitization. Now that same content might put them at risk, if the lack of swearing and adult humor allow it to be construed as specifically for children.

[ramengirll]

This is like a bad horror movie where the monster kills everybody and then itself

[emagotis]

All these efforts let me think that YouTube actually doesn't like YouTube.

[happi-entity]

Youtube then: "broadcast yourself"
Youtube now: "abandon hope all ye who enter"

[wadespencer]

Clickbait title: Legal Failure Spiderman Elsa FTC COPPA For Kids

[dpprofessor]

10:30 : "YouTube is, in effect, trying to build a scenario where they are still allowed to gather and utilize children's data in serving targeted behavioral ads with the blame falling on channel owner for allowing them to gather that information and serve those ads."


Dang.

[CaptainGreenHawk]

Clickbait title: Youtube sells broken glass to kids and YOU have to clean it up!

[TacticusPrime]

The FTC should multiply the payment required by YouTube tenfold for their malicious compliance. This is a bad faith effort, through and through.

[ndv]

So to sum up, YouTube lied to us about what was actually made necessary by their settlement. I already suggested this on a different video too, but tweet this at YouTube, and you know, ask them why they lied to us!

[vnceigz]

This is probably one of the only proper, researched, level-headed videos on the topic on all of YouTube. 👍 But even then, it only tangentially stated that this is specifically protecting the _privacy_ of children rather than their innocence. This isn't about protecting children from nasty content that could traumatize them, it's _only_ about data-collection. I have yet to see any videos pointing out that distinction. :-\ Also, Google believes in having _all_ the informations, but only giving out a bit. 😒

[KingsandGenerals]

This does feel like a bad movie, so no surprise you decided to make a video on the topic.

[fredrikolsson]

I'm commenting to increase engagement so more people see this

[booklover]

Thank you for helping setting the record straight and reaffirming that YouTube is a garbage website

[rachelb]

You are the first person that has pointed out the reality that YouTube wants to be able to keep tracking data above all else and wants to shift onus of compliance to creators just to cover their own butts.