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rocktivity

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Thu Mar 14, 2019, 11:00 AM Mar 2019

Disability Video Channel Censored by YouTube Out Of Fear of Online Predation [View all]

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...(A) vlogger discovered that YouTube’s algorithms enabled child predators to secretly connect across a series of videos with young girls engaged in everyday activities…(S)exualized comments about the girls (are) tagged with timestamps identifying moments when the kids were in certain poses…

(M)arketers...(have) suspend(ed) their advertising on YouTube...In addition to…disabling comments on videos with kids, YouTube reiterated that it had terminated certain channels for predatory behavior...(But) YouTube has massacred an innocent bystander in the process...

(It) has disabled all the comments of Special Books By Special Kids (SBSK)...video interviews of people of all ages and nationalities with physical and developmental conditions (that has) earned...more than a million YouTube subscribers...

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