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Always feel like a sucker reposting these bit the tubbs is too cute to deny xp

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WHY THE FUCK ARE THERE NO POSTS ON THE WHOLE COPPA AND YOUTUBE SITUATION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JzXiSkoFKw

Watch this video to understand what’s whappening, but as a general TLDR, if The Children’s online privacy protection act is inforced on Youtube, youtube content as we know it will change forever.

If you don’t have time to watch the video let me summarize it (and other videos on the topic) for you

One of the things COPPA prohibits is the use of personalized ads (Ads based on your location, age, sex, gender, interests, basically all the data that is collected through use of the internet) for children under the age of 13. For this, Youtube was fined and now they’re making changes to the way the platform works. 

One of these changes is making creators mark their content as “Meant for kids” or not. However there are a wide range of items that, on youtube’s eyes, classifies as children media. 

So basically if your video contains something that falls under any of these categories, even if its just one, and a minor thing, youtube can flag it as kids video and apply the new restrictions to this video or even your channel as a whole. And if youtube’s automated system finds any of these things in a video NOT catered for children, it can penalize you both by applying these restrictions anyways, striking you, or fining you for breaking the law

This is a snippet of a complaint made to be submitted to COPPAS’ feedback page, since they saw how problematic this act and laws can be. The whole complaint was written by a mexican youtube channel called Alfrely, and it reads:

YouTube viewers and creators petition the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to clarify and reconsider the new Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA Rule) regulations on YouTube creators. Shutting off personalized ads on creators’ content will cause more harm than good, especially for children. Quality family-friendly content will shrink, while more mature content will grow — yet kids will still be watching.   The FTC should not expand COPPA regulations for content creators. Broadening the definition of “child-directed” to include “child-attractive” would force many more creators to turn off personalized ads. As a result, even more quality content will dry up, and more mature and extreme content will fill the platform. The free YouTube Kids app is a better solution than regulation targeting family-friendly creators. YouTube Kids removes privacy concerns around personalized ads. Parents buy devices and allow their children to watch YouTube Main. Many parents prefer to use YouTube Main because it has more features and less barriers. Creators should not be punished when parents choose not to use YouTube Kids. COPPA is about putting parents in control of protecting their children’s personal information online. The FTC should not use COPPA to remove parents from the process in regulating content and online advertising. While large corporations will survive these changes, small business creators face terminating employees, changing their business model, or shutting down production altogether. These regulations will particularly hurt young underserved audiences who participate in YouTube communities on topics like special needs, faith, and minority groups. Limiting quality free content for kids expands the digital divide. Turning off personalized ads on kids’ content also encourages increased product placement and brand deals within kids’ content. Creators face COPPA fines up to $42,530 per video, yet the regulation and definition of “child-directed” is vague. The FTC needs to provide creators with enforcement clarity.  We ask the FTC to: 1. Provide an enforcement statement for creators 2. Clarify the definition of “child-directed,” and not expand it to cover “child-attractive” content  3. Delay enforcement against creators until the FTC concludes its review of COPPA 4. Allow parents to use YouTube Kids or YouTube Main, without forcing creators to turn off personalized ads when parents choose to use YouTube Main 

Now onto another point:

The woman from the video replies

“We will start limiting the data we collect from ‘Made for kids content’ to comply with the law.”

The changes that will be applied to these videos are:

Comments

Personalized ads

Info cards

End screens

Stories

Community tab

Notification bell

Ability to “Save to watch later” or add to playlists, just to name the ones listed.

You basically get stripped of everything that makes youtube, youtube.

This change basically encourages content creators that live off the platform to create content that DOESN’T cater to children, creating more mature content that is already frowned upon on youtube and by advertisers, and will inevitaly make kids continue to consume media that is not for them

Not to mention that things like cartoons and videogames will be among the things that people won’t talk about.

Big corporations will always find a way to make this work, and the people who depend on youtube for a living may also find a way to make this work, but at the end of the day, it will ruin the careers and possibly the lives of many many creators, maybe even creators that you enjoy.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS. THE MORE PEOPLE SUBMITTING FEEDBACK TO THE FTC, THE MORE CHANCES TO SAVE THIS WE HAVE. DON’T SLEEP ON THIS.

I’m not good at making any posts like these so I may be forgetting things or saying something wrong so please reblog and correct me or add to what I’m saying. Spread the word.

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Eh, just hit it’s weak point for massive damage. Usually the best way to get rid of those things.

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Dear People Who Smoke

I don’t know if you have considered this but stop smoking in areas where people are forced to wait at. Don’t smoke at crosswalks. Don’t smoke outside doorways. Don’t smoke at bus stops. People with asthma or other breathing conditions or people that idk DON’T WANT TO BREATHE IN YOUR CIGARETTE SMOKE are trying to get to places and need to be able to breathe. Stop smoking in crowded areas. stop smoking in crowded areas. STOP FORCING NONSMOKERS TO SECOND HAND SMOKE. 

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technology related sensory memories from my childhood

sliding the metal cover on floppy disks

the slight resistance of inserting cassette and video tapes

ripping off the strips of holed paper off of dot matrix printer paper 

rolling the wheel on a disposable camera to take another photo

#I can't say the VHS ones are lost on me #I still have a VCR #and I have no idea what kidpix was #but man #the rest of these...

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Fun fact: there is a film version of this amazing book. It was directed by David Cronenberg, who loved the book so much he basically used it like a script. Even better, it stars Robert Pattinson, and was pretty much his break away from the Twilight movies (it came out around the same time as the last one; he ditched that nonsense hardcore).

Fantastic book and a great movie. If you’re curious, I highly recommend checking them both out!

And because I can’t seem to embed it: https://gfycat.com/babyishmediumdotterel

Literally no one:

Not a single soul:

Male authors:

#Reminds me that I need to read more Don DeLillo #I have a copy of White Noise that's been sitting on my 'to read' pile for two years now #(p.s. it's been so long I forgot how broken tumblr's embedding system is)

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I swear, I love this series. These ads are a journey.

Please watch this series of Japanese gum commercials

You won’t regret it I promise

#Long #Looong #Maaaaaaaaaaaaaan #commercial #truly art

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Anti anxiety.

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This needs proper musical accompaniment.

#I'M NOT SORRY! #It was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this

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It’s not about bats. As far as I can tell, there are no vampire bats in Arizona. He ran on an actual ‘anti-Dracula’ campaign.

“The mines must be cleansed of dens — there’s no room for compromise here — No AZ Mine Draculas,”  Kobe explained without being prompted

Fun fact: Arizona is the only place in the country where the state mine inspector is an elected position

Another fun fact: this is one of my favorite political ads of all time, straight out of 2014

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Renown manga artist Monkey Punch (Kazuhiko Katou), best known for his series Lupin III, has passed away due to pneumonia. He was 81 years old.

[Source]

#Lupin III #Monkey Punch #RIP

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ToQer went as high as #4? It beat out Gokaiger? Wow! Very cool!

Ranking held a poll for “Favourite Heisei Super Sentai Ranking” involving 6753 participants across an age range of 10~50, as detailed in this article. Here’s the top ten results, as provided by Google Translate

Shinkenger (popular among women in their 40s)

LuPato (popular for men in their 20s and 40s)

Gaoranger

ToQger

Gokaiger

Hurricanger

Dekaranger

Timeranger

Kakuranger

GoGoFive

#No offense to Gokaiger fans #but ToQger was my first and favorite #and I see people gush about Gokaiger so much #and there's never enough love for the train crew!

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How could such a list be posted without the videos? Spider-Memes, as performed by Josh Keaton (an actual Spider-Man!)

#Actual Spider-Man #that's like totally a thing right?

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happy 1st day of spring!!

hey it’s 1st day of spring over here and it’s still friggin cold out. Persephone, would you please stop being irresponsible and get your butt up here???  

#Punderworld #Persephone #Hades #Linda Sejic

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I love a villain who respects their underlings.

#Monster High #Moanica D'kay #funny to say the villain was the best part of the reboot #(short lived as it was)

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#All canon is valid #even if its fanon or head-canon!

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#tokusatsu gagaga #the butt #it is important