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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by goshx on Thursday February 28, 2019 @03:48PM (#19275041)
Both of your statements.

It's probably out of their legal authority and the act of watching a video is obviously not illegal nor harmful to anyone.

But that's is a very simplistic view of the situation.

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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by dragonwriter on Thursday February 28, 2019 @04:01PM (#19275148)
> It's probably out of their legal authority

Probably? Is there an actual question about YouTube’s authority to order imprisonment? Because it seems to me that should be a bigger story than them cutting off comments on videos with kids in them.

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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by goshx on Thursday February 28, 2019 @04:11PM (#19275243)
Obviously, YouTube can't imprison anyone.

What I am saying "probably" is about what they could do to initiate an investigation on someone that might lead to imprisonment.

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