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You Tube and rc trucks future

I think the worst part is the language defining this law is super ambiguous which has created a ton of uncertainty.

To violate it you only need to "appeal" to kids, which could involve something as simple as the word 'duh' or using primary colors among many other vague criteria.

I see this effecting many other adult videos too, like tech tubers who might not be able to show "all" the RGB stuffs because of the color language in the law.

Make a video about an adult toy, nope has the word toy in it.

Youtubers are in for a nightmarish future sadly.
 
The rules are so ridiculously ambiguous that it leaves us in a really bad position. I have to say if my content is for children or not, and while I don't think that the type of technical and fab content I make is that appealing to kids, if you just look at it from afar you could think that any "toy" could be appealing at that I am wrong for my classification.
 
It’s insane to see YouTube’s version of risk and liability management. Basically putting the risk on the very people who create the content that provides the traffic to the actual site .

Harley have you looked at twitch ? I am not sure if it’s streaming only or an upload videos kind of thing .
 
Who likes all this government control? I really can't believe people stand behind this. It's insane.

Force parents to be parents.
 
iplaywithrocks said:
It’s insane to see YouTube’s version of risk and liability management. Basically putting the risk on the very people who create the content that provides the traffic to the actual site .

Harley have you looked at twitch ? I am not sure if it’s streaming only or an upload videos kind of thing .
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Hard to imagine YouTube’s losses don’t become another sites successes in the event of an upheaval. I am sure both YouTube and everyone benefitting from it will figure something out. Likely google already has.

Perhaps the Berger Meister is bhind this:ror:
 
There are far too many government bureaucracies that abuse their authority in completely unconstitutional ways. Most of them use vaguely worded regulations and then apply massive fines arbitrarily while the people being victimized by this have only limited recourse to actual justice, usually at a very high cost in legal fees and time.

You don't need to look too far to see the deplorable excesses of the EPA enforcing the preservation of "wetlands" or "inland waterways" in a completely over-zealous way where farmers have been fined tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars for making use of seasonal damp spots on which they had been growing crops for years or even the case of a farmer being fined because of a beaver dam on his property. How about the children on the Homeland Security no-fly list because of having the wrong name?

This COPPA act is heading the same way by the looks of things with a cooking site that invited children to register their birthday and address so that they could be sent a free package of cookies on their birthday being fined $100,000 for "tracking children".

Our own hobby's online videos are under threat simply because they "may" be interesting to children. Who hasn't had kids come up to watch when crawling? My own children love to come along when I go to the gun range. Does that mean that videos about guns are in the same boat? How about nature videos?

One of our members has a tagline on his posts about more love and peace making the world a better place. I think that the only way to really make the world a better place is by having less government generosity (using our money) for what was traditionally unacceptable behavior and more personal and parental responsibility.

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Rules are for fools.

Sadly the number of rules in the world is only increasing. Frustrating to consider that public tax dollars are being funneled into the systems that justify their existence by treating us all like children...
 
This law Wil make a bunch of criminals currently and zero responsible adults from future stock...

It's probably my bad for not voting somewhere...

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This is stupid. You can’t stop drugs, you can’t stop guns, so let’s try to censor the internet. It can’t be done. They always find a way around. All this does is affect the innocent people

My son was in 5th grade and we got him an iPod that had internet. He found everything that he should not have. They don’t have any parental controls. Even if they did he would have found a way around. Oh my son is 22 years old now and he turned out just fine without any internet censorship
 
This is an issue with SO many problems. Youtube egregiously violated the FTCs rules with their data mining, but as part of their settlement, they, and the FTC, somehow, are putting this all on the creators. That's absurd. Secondly, Youtube is going way overboard with anything that does get labeled as having kid content. Rather than just stopping the tracking of data, they're effectively hiding that video from everybody. It won't show up in searches, it won't show up in recommended feeds, and it won't be in subscriber's notifications. It's effectively removing the video from anybody who doesn't actively go to that channel's page to find it. That's absurd.

This is going to completely ruin thousands of creators whose livelihood depends on their videos. Thousands of people are going to be ruined in January. How many kids have been "protected" by this law? And protected from what, exactly?

Lastly, the part that pisses me off the most, is that the goddamned Government has decided what my kids can and can't watch. Everything that my kids like to watch on Youtube is going to disappear in a month. It's complete bull that I, as a parent, can't decide what my kids can see and do because the Government knows better than I do. Stay out of my family!

And one more thing... how in the hell is this not a blatant violation of the 1st Amendment?
 
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And one more thing... how in the hell is this not a blatant violation of the 1st Amendment?
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Since they are still letting us post the video to the site, they say it's not any violation. They are just choosing not to spread it for us, how nice of them :ror:

The FTC has responded in some way to comments with messages about mixed audience exceptions, however YouTube has made no attempt at allowing us that designation. And even with that added it makes things difficult, as if you want to watch any video that falls in that area then you must be signed in. How many times do you click a link in an app like FB or IG and get pulled to a video in a built in browser rather than your app which is logged in?

So now you'll have to be logged in to see an RC video but if it were girls jumping on trampolines (man show classic) then you wouldn't need to be since that is clearly not "child appealing" :roll:

I can tell you what, at 12yo if I was given the choice between a grown man talking about technical info on a RC car vs chicks jumping on trampolines... you'd be seeing my eyeballs oscillate up and down like pogo stick.
 
Harley said:
Since they are still letting us post the video to the site, they say it's not any violation. They are just choosing not to spread it for us, how nice of them :ror:

The FTC has responded in some way to comments with messages about mixed audience exceptions, however YouTube has made no attempt at allowing us that designation. And even with that added it makes things difficult, as if you want to watch any video that falls in that area then you must be signed in. How many times do you click a link in an app like FB or IG and get pulled to a video in a built in browser rather than your app which is logged in?

So now you'll have to be logged in to see an RC video but if it were girls jumping on trampolines (man show classic) then you wouldn't need to be since that is clearly not "child appealing" :roll:

I can tell you what, at 12yo if I was given the choice between a grown man talking about technical info on a RC car vs chicks jumping on trampolines... you'd be seeing my eyeballs oscillate up and down like pogo stick.
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I think that the sudden lack of *anything* for kids to watch will immediately result in all those kids watching something else that they shouldn't be. Way to go COPPA! Instead of watching pokemon videos, on Jan 1 my kid will probably watch reruns of the Man Show.
 
Common sense. Such a rare thing these days...

Law is too ambiguous, and YouTube isn't helping any.

Parents also really need to be parents. Stop putting iPads/iPhones in front of your kids at the dinner table.
 
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Don't tell me how to parent my kids. Who do you think you are, the FTC?
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LOL! touche!


On another note, I wonder if some motorsports or motor related channels will get hit with "Content for kids".

I'm sure "Monster Jam" will appeal to kids no?
 
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