Today YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok representatives are meeting with lawmakers in the United States. The reason for the meeting in question is consumer protection, product security and data security on social media platforms. Just before this meeting took place, the video content site, 7 million He said he removed the account. Meanwhile, YouTube’s total more than 2 billion It has active users.
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YouTube’s vice president of government and public policy Leslie Miller, will sweat in the US Congress today. MPs, especially data security and with publications for children The platforms, which will face difficult questions about the subject, have completed their preparations.
YouTube has declared that it belongs to young children and adolescents in the first nine months of this year. 7 million removed the account. Also, these removals 3 million occurred in the third quarter. This data is taken from an online child protection statement that company representatives will present to US attorneys today.
However, YouTube stated in its prepared statement that they are doing the video removal process quickly. The company said that 85 percent of the videos it removed for violating child safety rules in the second quarter didn’t reach 10 viewsNSladen stressed. Meanwhile, about 75 percent of all videos YouTube removes 10 people or less seen by
According to a 2019 study, content for children is often on YouTube. in the most watched video category is located. As such, there are so many issues that the company needs to pay particular attention to in this type of content. Children’s rate of watching video content is quite high.
To open an account in accordance with YouTube’s terms of service 13 years and older have to be. With this, kids There are also apps with limited access, such as However, many age-restricted online platforms, including YouTube, have been criticized for not enforcing age restrictions strictly enough.
A year ago, the platform introduced artificial intelligence into videos automatically. age restriction announced that he would. However, the algorithm only determines whether a video is suitable for people over the age of 18. Apart from that, it should be noted that YouTube has been hit many times before for publishing images containing child abuse.