On August the 13th, I will be leaving YouTube indefinitely until they finally decide to backtrack on this so called “Kids Online Safety Act” plan.
Tomorrow YouTube will launch an update that uses AI to track what videos you watch. This is to determine if you are a child. If the AI suspects that you are under the age of 18, your account will be locked off from any content that YouTube deems “mature”. And the only way to reverse this is to either provide a selfie, your driver’s license, your credit card or your government id.
This pisses me off for a million reasons. First of all, you have your own kids app, so why can’t the younglings have their own content while teens and adults can watch what they want?
What if you’re a parent who needs a quick break from all the hyperactivity of children, so give your kid your phone for a couple of minutes to rewind. When you get it back, you might want to search up a clip from an SNL episode or what not, but unfortunately, you can’t access it. Why? Because AI thinks you’re just another little kid.
Secondly, this could give a huge advantage to malicious hackers. Since the past month, Google has been victim to multiple hijackings, as well as other companies like Apple, so this is literally just a disaster waiting to happen. This is also gives major advantage to internet predators because they could possibly receive those images of children and use them for their own sick pleasures.
To make matters worse, neurodivergent people tend to take a liking towards media aimed at younger audiences. This is also very harmful or age regressors. I am in both of these categories.
So for example, one minute I might be in littlespace and I want to watch my favorite childhood show, but the next minute I want to hear some real life horror stories—however, the AI will probably already assumed I’m a kid after I watched the prior video, so they will automatically prohibit me from watching it unless I provide my own personal information…..WTF.
Don’t let them think that this KOSA bullshit is to ‘protect the children’. If they really did care about our children’s safety, the Epstein files would have been released by this point. This is all for the sake of censorship, and I will not stand for this. I will not tolerate this.
If you actually do give a damn, then I highly encourage you to completely boycott YouTube. Show them that you will not comply with censorship in any way, shape or form. Private any videos you have, spread awareness on the topic, change your profile picture on YouTube to Microsoft Clippy (check out Louis Rossmann’s video for more information). Find alternatives to YouTube that don’t require giving out your personal info. If possible, consider contacting YouTube and let them know how harmful this policy will be towards creators and minors themselves. Let’s stand together against YouTube’s harmful policies and make them fucking crumble!
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UPDATE!
On August the 13th, I will be leaving YouTube indefinitely until they finally decide to backtrack on this so called “Kids Online Safety Act” plan.
Tomorrow YouTube will launch an update that uses AI to track what videos you watch. This is to determine if you are a child. If the AI suspects that you are under the age of 18, your account will be locked off from any content that YouTube deems “mature”.
And the only way to reverse this is to either provide a selfie, your driver’s license, your credit card or your government id.
This pisses me off for a million reasons. First of all, you have your own kids app, so why can’t the younglings have their own content while teens and adults can watch what they want?
What if you’re a parent who needs a quick break from all the hyperactivity of children, so give your kid your phone for a couple of minutes to rewind. When you get it back, you might want to search up a clip from an SNL episode or what not, but unfortunately, you can’t access it. Why? Because AI thinks you’re just another little kid.
Secondly, this could give a huge advantage to malicious hackers. Since the past month, Google has been victim to multiple hijackings, as well as other companies like Apple, so this is literally just a disaster waiting to happen. This is also gives major advantage to internet predators because they could possibly receive those images of children and use them for their own sick pleasures.
To make matters worse, neurodivergent people tend to take a liking towards media aimed at younger audiences. This is also very harmful or age regressors. I am in both of these categories.
So for example, one minute I might be in littlespace and I want to watch my favorite childhood show, but the next minute I want to hear some real life horror stories—however, the AI will probably already assumed I’m a kid after I watched the prior video, so they will automatically prohibit me from watching it unless I provide my own personal information…..WTF.
Don’t let them think that this KOSA bullshit is to ‘protect the children’. If they really did care about our children’s safety, the Epstein files would have been released by this point. This is all for the sake of censorship, and I will not stand for this. I will not tolerate this.
If you actually do give a damn, then I highly encourage you to completely boycott YouTube. Show them that you will not comply with censorship in any way, shape or form. Private any videos you have, spread awareness on the topic, change your profile picture on YouTube to Microsoft Clippy (check out Louis Rossmann’s video for more information). Find alternatives to YouTube that don’t require giving out your personal info.
If possible, consider contacting YouTube and let them know how harmful this policy will be towards creators and minors themselves. Let’s stand together against YouTube’s harmful policies and make them fucking crumble!
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