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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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