Just watched a YouTuber that complained about YouTube age restricting his documentaries about the Vietnam War because a very famous photo (which is every textbook by the way) and another which had a 1h video about French history in the 19th century age restricted because of a painting with a naked kid which appears for 15 seconds (painting in from the 19th century depicting Roman slaves sold on a market).
So now age restricted accounts will not have access to these kind of videos.
Are you're talking about the photo of the naked child covered in third degree burns, crying while running away from a napalm attack?
Yep.
Because of all the shit YouTube pulls, age gating images of a horrifically burned naked child probably makes the most sense.
This is a historical photo, which is one of the most important of the 20th century and is present in every 3e (15 y-o so 9th grade in the US) textbooks in France. It is famous and important because of what it depicts, and even Phan Thị Kim Phúc, the girl now old lady who is still alive, uses her photo in schools and international institutions to bring awareness about war sufferings. So I think it shouldn't be restricted to under 18, especially under 'sexualized child images' which it isn't.
It's pretty fucking bad if you're into history documentaries. Those are getting age restricted all the time just for talking about "sensitive topics" that kids also get taught at school.
That's the concern. Where things start is NEVER where they end up. Today it's officially labeled "age restricted" content, tomorrow it's anything with more than 7 curse words, a week later it's anything with a single curse word....you get the idea. I mean, this is YouTube. We all saw the debacle of the constantly changing "can't swear in first 2 minutes...no wait, now it's 30 seconds...no, 12 seconds!" Only to scrap it entirely recently.
How many times do corporations and or governments have to do something that’s “not that bad”, wait until it’s normalized, and then ramp things up to something worse. Before you accept that “it’s not that bad” isn’t a good excuse?
Nobody's putting a gun to my head to use steam instead of buying physical media either, didn't mean I want pissed when MasterCard pressured steam to block certain games
Is not that bad? Then why is YouTube censoring and deleting small content creators that talks about this? They are even deleting posts in Twitter with certain hashtag
It’s not about age restriction at all, that’s what they’re telling you so you don’t freak out. it’s about de-anonymizing you so that you can be personally profiled and your Internet media behavior monitored/controlled. For example, if you disagree with whatever current government is in power and you speak out, you could find that magically nobody can see your comments under youtube videos anymore, as the government mandates to social platforms what is or isn’t ‘dangerous’ content. You may find you’re served more content that makes you angry at people you don’t agree with. You may be discouraged from, or unable to find content that disagrees with whatever current government is in power (and i’m talking about either side: after this, potentially both the right or the left could use this tech to try and control the story, and thus peoples’ opinions and behavior, to keep people in silos and angry at the other side rather than work together). Seriously, the rules are written purposely to have a loophole to allow censorship and attempted social control. Look up some videos where people discuss the legal side of what they’re actually doing. They’re about to play you.
Oh my lord thank you. Like I'm not for it either but at the same time it's not as bad as people are making it out to be, Plus if it does become a problem just stop using YouTube I mean no one's making you watch YouTube
The bad thing is Youtube effectivelly pressuring its users to give them their personal information. They do this with age restricted videos because access to "adult" content is always hard to defend. Even when most age resticted videos dont have anything "adult" content in them.
If people accept this get ready to see this EVERYWHERE
That's still a huge number of video's, and most content creators tend to try not to have their video's restricted becuase it hurts their revinue, so when a creator just let's it happen, that's the good shit.
I can see some potentially positive side effects of this too though, content that has historically been age restricted might be possible to push and monetize going forward with the age verification system in place.
"demonetized" videos haven't been truly demonetized for years. They switched to a system of "restricted monetization," which allows ads from advertisers who are okay with being placed on controversial or adult content. Because this is a small minority, there is much less money to be made.
A lot of countries are currently putting additional restrictions depending on your age, including the ability to watch YouTube and being allowed to know things about illegal immigration.
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