Sources: earlier this year, YouTube considered screening all videos for kids under 8 in YouTube Kids but dropped the idea to avoid looking like a media company
every step toward “responsibility” smacked into its third rail of being an open platform (w @Lucas_Shaw) https://www.bloomberg.com/... Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp : Having just 500 guaranteed safe videos would be better than 50,000 potentially risky ones. Parents would see that curation as a selling point! https://twitter.com/... Ken Yeung / @thekenyeung : A YouTube team codenamed Crosswalk proposed screening every video aimed at kids under 8 for the YouTube Kids app. Executives rejected the plan https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @technology See also Mediagazer
Two things: 1) not a bad idea morally but 2) imagine your pitch to executives being, “what if we acted like a media company and took responsibility for content” when YouTube execs have spent years yelling at everyone, “we're not a media company.” https://twitter.com/...
YouTube spent the year trying to nurture a growing community of demanding creators, while pledging to police troubling videos and protect millions of underage users who officially shouldn't even be watching. The efforts pleased almost no one. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
The floodgates have opened for YouTube. If it can check, block or demonetize X, it will be asked to do the same for Y, Z, A, B, C... https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @mhbergen @Lucas_Shaw @technology
“What is the mission of this company? People don't even know. YouTube is so ill-equipped to manage these massive challenges.” ~ @clairewaves https://www.bloomberg.com/...
This is a good read. For me, this is the leading edge of the wave: The internet will be domesticated within the next 10 years. The wild west hellscape of UGC will become as regulated as print, radio and TV. It's already starting. https://twitter.com/...
An existential quandary defined YouTube's year. It wants to make its website safer for advertisers, kids and society. But it doesn't want to screen videos before they go up. @mhbergen with a small assist from me. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
A look back at YouTube's impossible balancing act in 2019 — every step toward “responsibility” smacked into its third rail of being an open platform (w @Lucas_Shaw) https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Having just 500 guaranteed safe videos would be better than 50,000 potentially risky ones. Parents would see that curation as a selling point! https://twitter.com/...
A YouTube team codenamed Crosswalk proposed screening every video aimed at kids under 8 for the YouTube Kids app. Executives rejected the plan https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @technology