YouTube bans comments on all videos of children

Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by commandlinefan on Thursday February 28, 2019 @04:45PM (#19275540)

Gab just released a tool that permits anybody (with a browser plugin) to comment on any web page, so this will probably not only hurt legitimate users, it will not do what it's intended to either. Just like every other moral panic in history.

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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by krapp on Thursday February 28, 2019 @04:50PM (#19275580)

This isn't a moral panic, I don't know why people push that line anytime racists or pedophiles are even mildly inconvenienced.

Advertisers left Youtube because people left creepy and sexually suggestive comments on some videos, and Youtube responded to preserve ad revenue. No one was clutching their pearls over this.

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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by bilbo0s on Thursday February 28, 2019 @05:32PM (#19275978)

yep.

This is pretty much raw, uncensored, money grubbing, greed.

Racists and pedophiles are bad for the bottom line because advertisers refuse to pay to have their ads next to such content. So unless we're willing to start paying to use YT so that YT can get off the ad supported model, then we'd better get used to moves like this one.

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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by empath75 on Thursday February 28, 2019 @04:50PM (#19275582)

I don’t think it’s YouTube’s responsibility to moderate what happens on nazi pedophile sites that they don’t own.

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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by gowld on Thursday February 28, 2019 @05:01PM (#19275692)

Google runs Chrome and its extension store

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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by busterarm on Thursday February 28, 2019 @05:25PM (#19275902)

This is basically the same as Genius' old mission to annotate the web.

Except it's Gab.

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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by mc32 on Thursday February 28, 2019 @08:00PM (#19277058)

Or ThirdVoice back a couple decades ago.

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