YouTube Takedown Response as Concerns about kids’ Videos Grow

YouTube Takedown Response as Concerns about kids’ Videos Grow: Several Tech giants including Facebook, and Twitter has drawn increasing scrutiny over the year as concerns were raised over their policy regarding protection of adult content from children. The latest of those criticism has been directed towards YouTube regarding its policy and how it has failed to protect children from adult content.
Over the past few weeks, concerns about children's videos on YouTube gained new force after reports in some blog posts pointed out questionable clips. Also a forum on the Reddit internet platform dubbed ElsaGate, based on the Walt Disney Co princess, also became a Storing place of problematic videos.

In response to this, the American video-sharing website has finally started actions to step up enforcement of its guidelines for videos aimed at children. YouTube explained that it would be taking a series of actions to crack down on a “growing trend around content on YouTube that attempts to pass as family-friendly, but is clearly not.” YouTube vice president Johanna Wright in a blog post, wrote that the actions taken in response to this criticism by the streaming video service includes the removal of more than 50 user channels featuring contents that may be endangering a child, even if that was not the uploader’s intent, deleting thousands of videos and they stopped running ads on over 3.5 million videos since the past few months starting from June.
The video sharing giant also claimed to be investing in machine learning and other filtering tools to take serious and intense actions on violations to human moderators.

YouTube also stated that another measure going forward is to demonetize all videos including family entertainment characters depicted in violent or offensive situations as well as disabling comment sections when its combination of machine and human moderators detects inappropriate, illegal behavior or contents violating it's revised policy and with regards to the long run in mind, he also stated that "Across the board, they have scaled up resources to ensure that thousands of people are working around the clock to monitor, review and make the right decisions across our ads and content policies, these latest enforcement changes will take shape over the weeks and months ahead as we work to tackle this evolving challenge."

Finally, he stated that clarifications on standards and guidelines for content creators we be worked on and more “experts” will be included in YouTube's policy formation and moderation processes.

All these are lot of talks and controversy, but with millions of videos already on the site, which is  probably impossible to eliminate all of them or even keeping it from children is easier said than done. The best that can be done is to personally  prevent your kids from watching YouTube videos unguided and on the developers side, disable the comment functionality on any of such videos. You can tell us your suggestion on the best way to go about this challenge and we promise to keep you informed on any new development.