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Thoughts on YouTube disabling comments on videos featuring young children?

I support the idea

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VERY good idea. There was an active pedophilia problem on those videos.

The ban was likely the result of this video going viral (warning - it goes into how pedophiles work online and it's pretty horrifying)

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O13G5A5w5P0]

JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F

@CountScrofula I had to stop watching. This is why I won't let my daughter make YouTube videos. She keeps asking me to do this with her and I am glad I have refrained.

SW-User

@CountScrofula OMF, Thanks for posting, I'm never letting my daughter on the internet, OMG omg omg

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@JaggedLittlePill @SW-User The banning comments on videos will hopefully go a long way to keeping this stuff out of spaces kids inhabit.

SW-User

@CountScrofula I hope so, I'm so worried about the internet with the kids.. I want them to be able to do what their friends do... but also am scared

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@SW-User The solution to fear is knowledge. Like, figure out what kids are doing online and then try to puzzle out the risks associated and then just, well, look them up. It's when you aren't sure that it gets the scariest.