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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by zbentley on Thursday February 28, 2019 @09:02PM (#19277360)
> In reality, if they wanted to fix comments, they could easily do it without any high-tech stuff, through basic UI redesign.

Do tell.

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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by spookthesunset on Thursday February 28, 2019 @10:03PM (#19277610)
They won’t. You can’t fix it through UX or algorithms. Honestly why allow comments on kids videos at all? What value do they deliver over the risk of abuse? None.

This is a step in the right direction for google.

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