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- YouTube’s child video cleanse is way too little, way too late
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Monday, 11 December 2017
Recently, YouTube has been removing or demonetizing large swathes of content featuring young children, in videos that could be seen as abusive or exploitative. These include videos as seemingly harmless as parents pranking or scaring their children, and as disturbing as children being apparently tied up and gagged. This would be great, if it didn’t come across as nothing so noble as the site cleaning up its own mess. Buzzfeed spoke with several YouTubers children appeared in these types of channels, most of whom were dismayed at the loss of their revenue stream. None seemed to find what they did problematic,…
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