{"id":372436,"date":"2017-11-11T09:10:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T09:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=372436"},"modified":"2017-11-11T09:10:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T09:10:02","slug":"youtube-to-restrict-disturbing-childrens-videos-if-flagged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/youtube-to-restrict-disturbing-childrens-videos-if-flagged\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube to restrict ‘disturbing’ children’s videos, if flagged"},"content":{"rendered":"

YouTube is to restrict the availability of videos showing children’s characters in violent or sexual scenes if they are reported by viewers.<\/p>\n

Last week, a blog post by writer James Bridle highlighted how YouTube was still being swamped by bizarre and indecent videos aimed at children.<\/p>\n

The site says it already stops such videos earning advertising revenue.<\/p>\n

YouTube said its team was “made up of parents who are committed to improving our apps and getting this right”.<\/p>\n

But critics say YouTube is not taking enough action by waiting for viewers to report inappropriate videos.<\/p>\n

‘Something’s wrong’<\/strong><\/p>\n

The problem of video-makers using popular characters such as Peppa Pig in violent or sexual videos, to frighten children, has been\u00a0widely reported.<\/p>\n

However,\u00a0Mr Bridle’s blog post\u00a0went deeper into what he called the rabbit hole of children’s content on YouTube.<\/p>\n

He gave examples of videos aimed at children that were not necessarily violent or sexual but were sinister, “disturbing” or otherwise inappropriate.<\/p>\n

Often it appeared that the videos had been algorithmically generated to capitalise on popular trends.<\/p>\n

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In one clip, Spiderman and Elsa, from Frozen, fire machine guns<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n

“Stock animations, audio tracks, and lists of keywords being assembled in their thousands to produce an endless stream of videos,” he said.<\/p>\n

Many used popular family entertainment characters such as Spiderman, and Elsa from Frozen, and had been viewed millions of times.<\/p>\n

“Someone or something or some combination of people and things is using YouTube to systematically frighten, traumatise, and abuse children, automatically and at scale,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

YouTube says it has already barred such videos from earning advertising money when they are reported by viewers, to try to remove the incentive to produce them.<\/p>\n

However, many of the videos do not get reported by viewers and continue to carry advertisements.<\/p>\n

YouTube has now said it will give such videos an age restriction if they are reported by viewers, so they cannot be viewed by people under 18.<\/p>\n

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Some of the videos are not rude or violent but use Disney characters in odd situations<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n

Age-restricted videos are blocked from appearing in the YouTube Kids app, which is primarily curated by algorithms.<\/p>\n

They also cannot be viewed on the YouTube website unless people are logged in with an adult’s account.<\/p>\n

However, a\u00a0report in the New York Times\u00a0found that inappropriate videos have previously slipped through the net.<\/p>\n

YouTube says it uses human reviewers to evaluate whether flagged videos are appropriate for a family audience.<\/p>\n

In his blog post, Mr Bridle said he did not know how YouTube could stamp out the problem.<\/p>\n

“We have built a world which operates at scale, where human oversight is simply impossible, and no manner of inhuman oversight will counter most of the examples I’ve used in this essay,” he said.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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