YouTube Will Disable Comments on Nearly All Videos With Kids

YouTube said today it will disable the ability for viewers to leave comments on most videos featuring minors, as it tries to contain the damage from a scandal involving child predators leaving coded sexual comments on the site. From a report: YouTube said in a blog post Thursday that over the past week it had already disabled comments from 'tens of millions of videos' that could be subject to predatory behavior. Now, it will expand that to suspend comments on virtually all videos featuring young minors, as well as videos featuring older kids that 'could be at risk of attracting predatory behavior.' In a tweet, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki linked to the update and explained the change: 'Recently, there have been some deeply concerning incidents regarding child safety on YouTube. Nothing is more important to us than ensuring the safety of young people on the platform.'

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