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Comment by ama5322

This is a big issue.

I don't have a youtube account, and likely never make one. I was bypassing the login wall as long as I could, but ever since login was enforced to watch age-restricted videos, I now simply skip the content.

You'd think this would be a non-issue: I'm mostly following retro-content of this kind. But the amount of age-restricted videos I'm hitting is just baffling. I was following summoning salt, and I was able to watch the video before it got age-restricted. Is there any profanity there? No. If you think there is, you should reconsider your moral views.

I've seen creators over-censor their videos for the same reason, to the point of absurdity. As in this one, I've seen as far as pixelating 8bit 8x8 "nudity" in 90ies games just to be on the safe-end side.

There's no question youtube serves as a big audience window for small content creators. Youtube is amazing for discovery due to the immense choice. However I do support and watch videos outside of youtube (and I'm more and more eager to do so).

I encourage all creators to post on youtube with this attitude in mind.

parent ama5322 4 years ago

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