Stop COPPA and the FTC from ruining youtube

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OK,

  1. please link to the actual ruling as well as linking to any additional sources of your liking. I know we live in a “all you need to know about X in 60 seconds” culture, but some of us are interested in the full source.

Rule Summary:
COPPA imposes certain requirements on operators of websites or online services directed to children under 13 years of age, and on operators of other websites or online services that have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information online from a child under 13 years of age.

  1. I don’t believe in signing petitions online so I won’t. That’s my personal stance. All those who can and want to support what OP is linking to should write to the FTC directly, as you should with any other issue when you have access to legal representatives or a direct channel to voice your opinion about any sort of ruling in your city, state, country or others.

Here be cursing, kids

  1. YouTube is, and I have absolutely no other, more child-friendly word for this, a clusterfuck and a legal mess. Their terms of service are unclear and full of double-standards, aggravated since Alphabet’s (then Google) acquisition in 2006. We have a saying in Brazil that goes “it’s like trying to cover the sun with the sieve.” As to say, you’re not being effective in stopping/preventing something. That’s what I think of trying to stop the enforcement of COPPA.

  2. Being fined U$170 millions is, at best, a tickle in Alphabet’s 30.74 billion dollars of income in the last fiscal year. It’s literally less than 1% of their income in that period. Now they want to push creators to ban ads because they can’t cope with fines and content monitoring themselves. Worse, instead of rising up against Alphabet and telling them to up it up their gold-filled ass, we’re signing pointless petitions to “stop the FTC from ruining YouTube”?

  3. Yes, YouTube is big and convenient, but it’s bound to break eventually because it’s an empire built on sand. Instead of rising the debate of “are there good YouTube alternatives?” “how can we port our viewers and videos from the platform?” we’re all bending over backwards to Alpabeth because it’s more convenient to keep up with their shit.

TL;DR

  1. This whole thing is ridiculous and I’m done. COPPA will pass because YouTube execs need 2-dollar bills to wipe their mouths with since they can’t stop from pouring shit from them while pretending to care about the environment by tossing their pennies at a 20-million dollar initiative to plant trees and look good when the time for PR comes. And when it passes we won’t have an alternative ready or an escape route, because we wasted our time trying to find a reason to support a platform that has routinely and excessively abused our privacy and our rights in order to make a profit out of its content creators and users.

  2. I’m furious. Change my bloody mind, I dare you all.

EDIT, oh yeah, I can’t wait for someone like SidAlpha (dunno if he makes videos about these things too, but boy do I like his channel) to make a video in this that explains this to those of us who don’t want to read through the whole rulling.

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