YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify the age in EU (2020)

Re:YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify t... by eptcyka on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @09:59AM (#28379897)

Yes, but where's the real, proper evidence that shows that watching age restricted youtube videos is detrimental to children? I think unsupervised access to age restricted parts of youtube may well be detrimental too.

I feel like most of these changes are there only because troubled parents feel like they're powerless to control their children.

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Re:YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify t... by andrepd on Thursday September 02, 2021 @11:14AM (#28393062)

Oh absolutely. Here's an hypothesis: turbo-consumerist videos targeted at children are far more harmful that much of the "age restricted" content of nudity and profanity.

I just mean we should be careful and work in an evidence-based way rather than a moral panic-based way or a "I turned out fine"-based way (this latter, a common defense worldwide of child beating for instance)

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Re:YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify t... by eptcyka on Thursday September 02, 2021 @12:04PM (#28393772)

I do agree that anecdotes shouldn't inform policy.

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