Re:YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Priva...
by DanBC on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:44AM
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Yes.
I've complained to the UK regulator about gambling ads placed in children's content and they are paying attention.
They say it's hard because YouTube forbids (because COPPA) anyone under 13 from having an account, which means those children use their parent's accounts, and so the demographics used by the advertisers are skewed.
However, they did take action against every single gambling company I complained about because the ads were placed against children's content.
Re:YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Priva...
by izacus on Saturday August 31, 2019 @04:55AM
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> Cartoon nursery rhymes directed at as low as even 1 year olds will sometimes have ads popup for a tv show containing drugs and guns. Completely inappropriate!
Does that still happen if you actually pay for the service via Prermium subscription? Or only if you want to use it completely free and paying nothing?
EVERYTHING that deals with children whether directly or indirectly is strictly regulated, and rightly so.
Television programming as an example, for 70 years only permits certain ads to be displayed on children's shows.
YouTube should be regulated by the FCC in regards to this and very easily can have a checkbox for advertisers and providers to check that says the content is for under 13 or not.