FTC COPPA CONCERNS for channel IMPORTANT

Steven Dorsey

This whole situation is blowing out of proportion, and I believe this will eventually blow back on the FTC when the negative opinion knocks back. Until then, do what you gotta do, and we'll be rooting for you!

Just give a person options for each individual video like the TV Guide....D for suggestive dialogue (usually means talks about sex), L for coarse or crude language, S for sexual situations, V for violence. If your video contains one or more of those things, just select which ones apply. If not, then just say "General Audiences". That should put you in the clear, no matter what. But the same channel should be able to have videos like both "Paddington" and "Peaky Blinders". Make a rating system like YT, YT+, YT-13, YT-17. If a video is rated YT, it should be suitable for all audiences. YT-17 would be the equivalent of an R-rating. Just referencing "Paddington" again, it's rated PG. The Hunchback of Notre Dame is rated G and SPOILERS starts with the villain breaking a new mother's neck on church steps as she pleads for sanctuary, then gets ready to chuck the baby down a well because of its appearance. He's also a sexual predator who restrains a woman, sniffing her hair, before giving her an ultimatum between either sharing his bed or being burned at the stake. He also burns down an entire city in an attempt to find this woman, on top of condemning a family with children to death by barricading the entrance to their house and commanding one of his subordinates to set fire to it. Now that's considered "Made for Kids" and it's G. Paddington apparently has more adult content. |:o

I think that the content creators should put their own rating or warning on videos without having to change anything drastic about their channel. Just like "Warning: This video contains adult content. Viewer discretion advised. DLSV.

Opti_Frog

I don't know why the word "family" would be kid friendly. What about videos about the Manson family?

wroot

Every day i watch or read something about US even crazier. Well, i guess you can just post a notice that you posted something in Patreon, filmed in a dimmed dark room with black clothes and hope noone will find it appealing to kids.. Btw, i'm not a creator, but i had a few videos in my account. I went and made them all private. You should look through your old videos and maybe also do something about them.

Rafael Benedicto

That law is stupid. YouTube content creators come from all over the world. What about content creators not in the US? How are they going to sue someone that's outside of US jurisdiction?

Namey Namerson

I understand the fear, but you should understand something. The FTC themselves have stated that they cannot reasonably go after every single COPPA 'violator' especially on YouTube. NO you will not be found and fined by the FTC because they don't care about your channel or my channel or ANYONE'S channel. What has changed and what will be atrocious to deal with is YouTube. As always, because they're YouTube and refuse to actually fix problems they've created new ones. Their bots to find 'kid friendly' channels that are not kid friendly is likely to be broken for at least half a year. As always. Many channels that advertise as kid friendly to YouTube will possibly get attacked by YouTube not the FTC. This is not a matter of you dealing with the government, no matter what number of the copious amount of fear mongers across YouTube say, this is a matter of you or me vs YouTube...Again. I'd say to not worry as much, but be prepared to have YouTube tell you that you can't post this or that, this way or that way. Oh, and just to try and calm you down some, there are lots of people fear mongering on YouTube right now just as there are plenty of people explaining how it will not affect most channels. Those with specific kid bends, yes. Does your channel promote kid material? Not really. Depends on what your view of a 'reaction' is. Anyways, that's what I have to say on the matter. Hopefully it isn't as bad as everyone thinks, and in like half a year's time I genuinely believe we'll be past the COPPApocalypse onto the next terrible thing YouTube tries to implement. YouTube, whose placement of ads on kid video material caused all of this. YouTube, the one who is at fault.

zammmerjammer

Wow. Awful. That legislation as written is soooooo vague and absurdly broad that normally I'd say it would never survive scrutiny or a legal challenge... but the USA seems to be the breeding ground for terrible laws, so... How stupid.

Les Reece

No matter what happens on YouTube, I'll continue to support you on here

benjamin freeman

shit nothing till the weekend?!?!?!

America and their dumb laws that affects EVERYONE.

Bryan-P

You've probably seen this but it's pretty good information: vidiq.com/blog/post/coppa-ftc-youtube-everything-you-need-to-know/ Seems to me that stuff that already has a rating (eg. PG-13, R) would already be enough explanation as to what audience is appropriate. Can you just make the rating known in the description? Like Daredevil is NOT for kids and I'm sure Netflix has rated it as such.

Michael Skyum Andersen

What idiot law makers made that law... geez. Just incredibly lazy and sloppy. I wonder how they plan to enforce it outside the US. If the law stands for long it'll be the death of Youtube.

zaandarbrow

I clicked on not kid friendly for my videos and adult humor but we do do cosplay so i hope they dont think we are for kids

WastedPo

I've only just learned of the details of this COPPA stuff myself, and it's absolutely insane. If this actually goes ahead in a "worst case scenario" type of way, I genuinely think this could spell the end of Youtube, and not just for a select portion of "kid friendly" channels. It seems like a *major* portion of all content creators will be handicapped and penalized to such a degree that they'll be forced off the platform. And if/when that happens, it won't just be them and their fanbases that gets affected. Youtube as a platform will have greatly diminished traffic, which would affect any remaining channels that were lucky enough to be initially spared.

Well, that’s bullshit. I hope you know, Dawn, that you and your family will ALWAYS have my, and I’m sure many others’, support. 💛

Ren

This is so ridiculous! Not only does it make ‘Youtube Kids’ (or whatever its called) pointless, but you essentially can’t have a full control over you channel. If you say its kids friendly - you don’t make any money and comments are disabled. If you say its technically not ‘kids friendly’ - you can be fined thousands of dollars if you use bright colours or say certain words that we all just tend to use in our day to day lives. Especially for you guys as you are reacting. Its a lose-lose situation for all creators. This is so stupid.

☆C~H~A~N~D~L~E~R☆

Wow... that IS kinda scary..AND crazy..