According to Pew Research Center, 81 percent of American parents let their children watch YouTube.
that"tens of millions of videos" that are"subject to predatory behavior" had their comment sections disabled.
, the YouTube algorithm, which analyzes a user's search history to recommend new videos, is still pushing content featuring minors.reports that"a user who watches erotic videos might be recommended videos of women who become conspicuously younger, and then women who pose provocatively in children's clothes." As you click, you might be"presented with videos of girls as young as five or six wearing bathing suits, or getting dressed or doing a split.
Sharer believes that"with YouTube being so new, there were a lot of policies that were left up in the air." For the first time in world history, kids are growing up with access to unlimited information on the internet and smartphones and there's still a lot of uncertainty out there. Those children that"are not in compliance with this policy may lose their ability to live stream." Channels who receive a single community guidelines strikes for breaking YouTube's rules are unable to stream, though it is unclear if that punishment will be given to those unaccompanied minor streamers. Machine learning tools that can detect younger users have also been implemented to remove some of this content.
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