YouTube channel owners: Is your content directed to children?

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The FTC action against YouTube and Google


A COPPA recap




How COPPA applies to channel owners


How channel owners can determine if their content is directed to children



  • the subject matter,
  • visual content,
  • the kind of music or other audio content,
  • the age of models,
  • language or other characteristics of the site,





What are the possible penalties for violating COPPA?


Isn’t the FTC taking another look at the COPPA Rule?


Where can channel owners go for more information?










Question: What's are YouTube Kids Made for.

Question: Do we get fined if we violating COPPA Rules.

Question: How the COPPA Works?

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Watching TV is much more harmful than YouTube videos!











Do you know that youtube kids exist in the world.

My YouTube videos made for Adults! Not kids.

COPPA rules and FTC we can't do any videos at all





How is it governments job to regulate what our children watch and consume on the internet? That should fall under the parents jurisdiction.

I believe a specific age range would help a lot here. I looked through the legal links provided and it seems all examples used were for ages 3-7, so a age range would be quite helpful in making this easier to understand.

(not legal advice so don't quote me on this I'm just a normal dude this is not legal advice) It seems to be if It could air on nick jr or playhouse disney. it's probably coverd by COPPA.

good thing i don't plan to make that type of content.

Can Age Of 13 Or Above Can Run YouTube channels?? Pls confirm

YouTube has so many people making videos for a living. Does taking away innocent people's jobs sound okay to you? These innocent people will go into debt because of this. This is not okay.

As much as this tries to clear things up. It is still very vague. What about toy reviews that are aimed at an adult or older audience. These videos aren't or rather, the products/toys in the videos are not aimed at children, nor would children buy them. They even say on the box these products aren't for children ages 15 and under. Also for cartoons, what about anime? Anime isn't always aimed at children.


The language that defines content that falls under "Child Friendly" is far from specific enough and gives a massive grey area to whether a video is friendly or not, depending on the content. Lawmakers need to research the current state of social media and YouTube's platform to better understand how the current language of the law is causing mass panic and is not properly applying to the creators on the platform. Also, YouTube's "Terms of Service" does not allow anyone under the age of 13 to sign-up for the site, so how does this law apply to the individual creators in the first place?

Why is this being done like this, surely there are channels who abuse of their audience demographic but some who are just trying to make a living, this should be put upon the parents not you. Take out COPPA otherwise the consequences will show up

What if a kid is a youtuber and their content is not directed to children

Please Consider to change these rules as most of the youtubers make a living on this youtube platform only. And mention exactly what type of videos will come under made for kids category.

I don’t think the FTC knows that YouTube was never meant for kids because if you go App Store or google play, you’ll see it’s not meant for kids. There’s a thing called YouTube kids, a YouTube for kids. And it’s not YouTube’s fault that they are watching this stuff, it’s the parents fault because they should pay better attention to their children. So this coppa thing is really stupid and it cannot pass. This will wipe out 90% percent of content creators on YouTube. FTC, if you’re reading this, please get rid of this, it’s stupid!

"Appealing to children" could literally mean anything, Also I see no reason why YouTube can't just keep the site age restricted for Children of or below a certain age, it seems harsh punishing of age content creators for violations others have enacted. Please keep family friendly platforms like YouTube Kids as an alternative to punishing millions of YouTube content creators as this decision will also massively devastate YouTubes ability to profit and gain revenue from a slew of demographics above the age of 18.

YouTube videos express the ideas of the content creator. The vague language of COPPA doesn't fully explain what opinions and ideas are kid friendly. There is always a gray line in video content that one can't fully categorize. For example the satirazation of kids movies, adults playing games popular with every age, etc. The $42,530 per video fine will affect many creators that don't have a clear understanding what "child-directed content" is specifically. YouTube is where people go to show off ideas and that might be restricted due to the vagueness of COPPA.

So say one day you got bored and made a video that was targeting more towards 13+ but YouTube says it’s for children and you got fined the $42,530 but the video has really Mature content like Gore and Realistic violence. What if the game you upload of you playing is really not for kids. But you still might get fined? Do you see the problem? what if you don’t have the money? There won’t be any content for anyone to enjoy! It’s not YouTube’s fault for parents not monitoring what their kids watch! I read an article about a girl watching a dude kill himself on YT kids. Why are you focusing only on YouTube? What about disturbing content on YouTube kids?

If your videos are made for kids, transfer it to YouTube kids. If your videos are for teens/adults, no changes are to be added.

Hi, I have a child, he is ten years old, he use YouTube all the time, specially to study for the school, And as a mother I think that the full responsability of what my child do or doesn't do through Internet and specially on YouTube is mine. If parents can not to control their children that is not the creators or YouTube responsability.
The access to information shouldn't be regulated in any way.
YouTube already uses algoritms to target adds, they can use this algoritm to determine what the sponsors do, and not put adds not for children on children videos, and can prevent the recolection of information in those channels, but shouldn't stop a child to ask a teacher through the plataforms for information about a subject he or she is studying, or connect with others or create a comunity through the plataform.
This law should be canceled and teach the parents to be responsibles for their children.


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