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Re:Nestle, Disney Pull YouTube Ads, Joining Furor Over Child... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @05:34PM (#19212762)
> Given everything else YouTube already does, I seriously, no sarcasm, don't see this as a particularly problematic solution.

Isn't this punishing the users more than punishing YouTube? I get how these kind of videos would be banned in a country like Saudi Arabia, but in the USA, or much of Europe? Yes, CP should be disallowed, but kids playing in a pool adequately covered?

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Re:Nestle, Disney Pull YouTube Ads, Joining Furor Over Child... by jerf on Thursday February 21, 2019 @10:30AM (#19217493)
"Punishing" is kind of a loaded term though, isn't it? "Not hosting your video for free because of concerns about risk to YouTube" isn't really a "punishment".

As I sort of alluded to already, giving other services an incentive to exist, or incentivizating more self-hosting, I see as a virtue anyhow. YouTube shouldn't be The Video Site On The Internet.

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Re:Nestle, Disney Pull YouTube Ads, Joining Furor Over Child... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday February 21, 2019 @12:04PM (#19218311)
It really is, if you could post videos for free before, but now some people in parliament have made it so you can’t anymore.

Other services may or may not fill the huge created gap, but what’s to say they won’t be subject to the same regulations as YouTube? Anyways, the politicians would probably take a huge fall if they did this, voters don’t often buy “its for your own good” arguments.

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