Site announces measures to flag,review and restrict content that is inappropriate for children but doesnt breach wider guidelinesYouTube has announced a clampdown on disturbing and inappropriate children’s videos, following accusations that the site enabled “infrastructural violence” through the long-sprint effects of its content recommendation system.
The new policy, and announced on Thursday evening,will see age restrictions apply on content featuring “inappropriate exhaust of family entertainment characters” like unofficial videos depicting Peppa Pig “basically tortured” at the dentist. The company already had a policy that rendered such videos ineligible for advertising revenue, in the hope that doing would reduce the motivation to create them in the first place.
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Source: theguardian.com