Children's popular characters in inappropriate videos to be banned: YouTube

YouTube is a place where all sorts of content exist — positive, encouraging, funny and disturbing as well. The Google-owned company has been on its toes to filter content on the platform and it is making sure that the young generation also gets to enjoy quality content without any sort of negative vibes.

In the coming days, YouTube will be flagging content that shows popular children’s characters in disturbing ways. They said that "inappropriate use of family entertainment characters" would be restricted to adult accounts, i.e. accounts belonging to users aged 18+ when they are reported by users.

Such content will also be removed from the YouTube Kids app, which caters to children with a limited collection of suitable content. YouTube will also block such videos for those users using YouTube without logging in.

"Earlier this year, we updated our policies to make content featuring the inappropriate use of family entertainment characters ineligible for monetisation,” YouTube's director of policy Juniper Downs said in an interview with The Telegraph. "We’re in the process of implementing a new policy that age restricts this content in the YouTube main app when flagged. Age-restricted content is automatically not allowed in YouTube Kids. The YouTube team is made up of parents who are committed to improving our apps and getting this right."

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