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Inappropriate content is can take many forms, from inaccurate information, to content that may lead your child to unlawful behaviour. Children with unsupervised access to the internet can stumble across this content or it could even be sent to them directly by another child or adult.
Dec 11, 2023 · In the online world, they can be exposed to cyberbullying and hateful content. They can also be exposed to fake news or hoaxes. Some things also promote self-harm or suicide. Inappropriate content can cause mental health issues, give them nightmares, and even change their behavior.
Nov 17, 2020 · For kids who are watching videos on YouTube, one in five videos viewed by children age 8 and under contained ads that often included pervasive and inappropriate advertising, violence, and other questionable content. These are among the key findings in two new research reports published today by Common Sense:
May 8, 2018 · Almost all the parents said they use some form of parental controls on their computers and mobile devices to try to limit their children's exposure to inappropriate content. The kids we talked to were all ages 10 to 13 and said they know who's “kid-friendly“ on YouTube. Sam, 11, said SuperMarioLogan is “one of my favorite channels.
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The safety of our creators, viewers and partners is our highest priority. We look to each of you to help us protect this unique and vibrant community. It's important that you understand our Community Guidelines and the role that they play in our shared responsibility to keep YouTube safe. Take the time to carefully read the policy below. You can also take a look at this page for a full list of our guidelines.
Update: Content that targets young minors and families but contains sexual themes, violence, obscene or other mature themes that are not suitable for young audiences, is not allowed on YouTube. In addition to your titles, descriptions and tags, ensure that your audience selection matches the audience that your content is suitable for.
YouTube doesn't allow content that endangers the emotional and physical wellbeing of minors. A minor is someone under 18 years old.
If you find content that violates this policy, report it. If you believe that a child is in danger, you should get in touch with your local law enforcement to report the situation immediately.
If you're posting content
Don't post content on YouTube if it fits any of the descriptions noted below.
• Sexualisation of minors: Sexually explicit content featuring minors and content that sexually exploits minors, including minor nudity posted with comedic intent. We report content containing child sexual abuse imagery to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who work with global law enforcement agencies.
• Harmful or dangerous acts involving minors: Content showing a minor participating in dangerous activities or encouraging minors to perform dangerous activities. Never put minors in harmful situations that may lead to injury, including dangerous stunts, challenges, dares or pranks.
• Inflicting or advocating for the infliction of physical, sexual or emotional maltreatment or neglect of a child, including inflicting emotional distress on minors.
• Content that contains infliction of physical, sexual or emotional abuse on a child within an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic context and with blurring may receive an exception.
Here are some examples of content not allowed on YouTube.
• A video featuring minors involved in provocative, sexual or sexually suggestive activities, challenges and dares, such as kissing or groping.
• Showing minors who are involved in dangerous activities. For example, physical stunts, using weapons or explosives or using a controlled substance like alcohol or nicotine including use of vapes or e-cigarettes.
• A video with tags like 'for children' or whose audience is set to 'Yes, it's Made for Kids', featuring family-friendly cartoons engaging in inappropriate acts like injecting needles.
• Offering money, praise, likes or any other incentive to a minor to participate in physical contact with someone else.
• A video that advertises sexual content featuring minors or abusive content featuring minors.
• Predatory behaviour involving communications with or about minors.
• Aggregating innocent content of minors for the purposes of sexual gratification.
• Fight or bullying videos featuring children without educational, documentary, scientific or artistic context and blurring.
• Challenges, pranks or stunts that pose the risk of physical injury or serious emotional distress. You can learn more about what's not allowed in our policies around challenges and pranks.
If your content violates this policy, we will remove the content and send you an email to let you know. If we can't verify that a link that you post is safe, we may remove the link. Note that violative URLs posted within the video itself or in the video's metadata may result in the video being removed.
If this is the first time that you've violated our Community Guidelines, you'll most likely get a warning with no penalty to your channel. You will have the chance to take policy training to allow the warning to expire after 90 days. However, if the same policy is violated within that 90-day window, the warning will not expire and your channel will be given a strike. If you violate a different policy after completing the training, you will get another warning.
If you get three strikes within 90 days, your channel will be terminated.
We may terminate your channel or account for repeated violations of the Community Guidelines or Terms of Service. We may also terminate your channel or account after a single case of severe abuse, or when the channel is dedicated to a policy violation. We may prevent repeat offenders from taking policy training in the future.
Jul 22, 2021 · Inappropriate content is any media that negatively affects a child’s social, emotional, and physical development. Some examples of inappropriate content may include, but are not limited to: Pornography. Vulgar Language (Swearing, Racism, etc.) Depictions of Illegal Behavior (Crime, Terrorism, Vandalism, etc.)
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