A pedophilia scandal compelled YouTube to vow to suspend comments on videos with kids age 13 and younger. Six months later, comments are still easy to find. From a report: YouTube is about to reposition how its massive online video service treats clips for children. Following a record $170 million penalty, announced Wednesday, for violating kids’ data privacy, Google’s YouTube pledged to disable comments, notifications and personalized ads on all videos directed at children. And its machine learning will police YouTube’s sprawling catalog to keep kids videos in line, the company said. One problem: YouTube’s machine learning was supposed to be suspending comments on videos featuring young minors already. It hasn’t.
Comment-enabled videos prominently depicting young kids are still easy to find on YouTube. A single YouTube search for one kids-focused subject — “pretend play” — returned more than 100 videos with comments enabled, all prominently featuring infants, preschoolers and other children young enough to still have their baby teeth. After CNET contacted YouTube with a list of these videos, comments were disabled on nearly half of them.
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