This has been a very popular topic on youtube lately. One thing i have noticed about this is the extremely vague nature of what could constitute something as being appealing to children. Is that something that any one child could watch and find appealing? If that is the case than any video at all could be deemed appealing to children and the creator fined for not labeling it as such. This seems like something that could easily be challenged for being unconstitutionally vague, but as this is a guideline coming from the administrative state a successful challenge against it would likely have to work its way to the supreme court to be overturned. What do you think about this? Any monsterfishkeeping lawyers on here that would be willing to shine more light on the subject?
Youtube, COPPA and the adminstrative state
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All I can say is that it's going to be a huge mess if they go through with it. My fish videos for example, I don't make them for kids but they are child friendly. Does that mean I have to castrate my channel because kids can watch it? Just doesn't make sense 
I only have a channel for here anyway so I'll just make everything not child friendly that way no issues. I dont like kids anyhow!!!.....lol
All I can say is that it's going to be a huge mess if they go through with it. My fish videos for example, I don't make them for kids but they are child friendly. Does that mean I have to castrate my channel because kids can watch it? Just doesn't make sense
If you're from South Africa it shouldn't affect you much. The FTC is apart of the American government and so only has jurisdiction in America. That still sucks for all of the American youtubers.
Well it's not quite so easy as that unfortunately. While maybe not legally enforceable in every country, Google itself could still penalize a channel no matter where the YouTuber is posting from. When you go to edit a video you'll now see this:
But like you said it's going to be a mess and they'll have their hands full just going after the channels/videos that probably deserve such classification, let alone those that are ambiguous in this regard.
With my fish videos I haven't done anything yet; with my climbing sans protection videos I've complied and said they're not made for kids (or sane adults for that matter lol).
The ftc just made this rule up out of thin air one day. Going after Google is one thing, going after individual creators is just vile. They have no control over YouTube's cookie settings. The ftc has long outlived there original purpose and has been drunk on power for too long.
If you search through my posts for YouTube links, or "London zoo tour" if you search on YouTube. Just clips of my fish mostly with a handful of videos with effort
This is a symptom of people (google) who want government action/protection to absolve them from duty.
And they are filthy rich so of course they expect this is their boon as rich social aristocrats.
They will foster laws to keep their money/business safe.
It's up to me to protect my kids FROM the government and google.
YouTube needs to decide what video is adult or not. Not the courts.
Just like you would decide whether to publish photos I sent you, in your magazine for kids. Or adults.
It's the publisher's duty to run his business correctly and the public's business to shut it down otherwise.
But with so much influence peddling, Google has lots of govt supporters.
When this is over it will still be me who protects my kids. The government is too untrustworthy for such important things.
And they are filthy rich so of course they expect this is their boon as rich social aristocrats.
They will foster laws to keep their money/business safe.
It's up to me to protect my kids FROM the government and google.
YouTube needs to decide what video is adult or not. Not the courts.
Just like you would decide whether to publish photos I sent you, in your magazine for kids. Or adults.
It's the publisher's duty to run his business correctly and the public's business to shut it down otherwise.
But with so much influence peddling, Google has lots of govt supporters.
When this is over it will still be me who protects my kids. The government is too untrustworthy for such important things.