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YOUTUBE AND COPPA

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(Children’s Online Privacy Protection) was announced and is going to make drastic changes on Youtube’s platform next year.

Originally, it was planned that these guidelines would be applied on YouTube Kids to prevent children from sharing their information, however, it has ended up being imposed on the entire platform. YouTube users received a notification through an email where they should be responsible for the audience to which their videos are aimed for. Currently these guidelines the FTC has released so far are pretty vague, and there’s a lot of concern in a huge part of YouTube community, not only in the United States but globally, since the users would be getting a fine of approximately $40000 dollars for incorrectly setting the video to the wrong audience (by them or the Youtube automated systems), even if we are not living in the United States. Users that have created content aimed for children -anybody under 13-  will lose some functions in their videos/channels: -Notifications will be deactivated. -Comments will be deactivated. -Videos will no longer appear in the search engines. -Videos won’t be recommended -Ads will be reduced by 90% -Live functions like Super Chat will be deactivated.

Channels that set their content as NOT aimed for children under 13, will also be affected in terms of decreasing their income, and basically being censored since it’s supposed to be “mature” content.

Channels which content is aimed for teenagers or young adults -from 13 to 28 and more- will be affected unfairly, since this law considers “only for kids” videos that contain animations, cartoonish characters, colorful pictures/sequences or toys, as well as videos using slang words or pop culture terms like “fun” “free gifts” “duh” “whatever”, etc.

As for animation channels using the words  “animation” or “animated” in the titles, descriptions or tags will also be flagged as content made for kids even if the topics of the videos are aimed for teenagers or adults. The animators would be affected by losing the channel functions mentioned before, getting a huge decrease in their revenue and the risk of being fined for making inappropriate content disguised as “flashy videos for kids.”

The FTC is still open to comments until December 9th. If you want to help, here’s the link to send them a comment about this situation. PLEASE DON’T SEND HATE OR TREATS. We must let them know these changes are very aggressive with a huge part of Youtube Content Creators.

https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=FTC-2019-0054-0001

There’s also a petition you can sign to save Youtube’s Family Friendly content, and prevent this affect other internet platforms in the future.

https://www.change.org/p/youtubers-and-viewers-unite-against-ftc-regulation

Also, this is a video talking about this topic that is being a trend on Youtube. We gotta spread this thing, guys. Many artists, gamers and family friend content creators, new ones and popular ones are all in danger. 

The magic mirror

✊ Today is an Internet-wide day of action for net neutrality ✊

There’s been a major development over the past 24 hours: another member of Congress just came out in support of the House Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s net neutrality repeal.

This is a big deal and could help push other lawmakers do the same, but we have to act fast because the deadline is just over a week away.

Today is a massive day of action to show lawmakers that people still care about net neutrality so we’re asking everyone to click here and tell Congress not to let their chance to save net neutrality slip away.

We’ve been fighting for months without seeing any movement in Congress, watching the clock ticking down to the deadline. But Rep Joe Morelle (NY-25) his support for the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution could change that.

If we act fast, we can leverage this new momentum to unleash a small landslide of other representatives coming out for net neutrality before the December 10th deadline, which will make a huge difference in the battles ahead.

Today we’re asking the entire Internet to sign this open letter to Congress telling them to do the right thing and support net neutrality before it’s too late.

Your voice matters. As part of today’s Internet-wide day of action, thousands of others are speaking out, along with celebrities, musicians, and websites like Tumblr, Postmates and Etsy.

You can join them and show your support for net neutrality by submitting an ‘I support net neutrality’ photo. We will be flooding lawmakers’ social media feeds with pictures, so if they decide to vote against the open Internet we will make them look us in the eye as they do it.

Click here to sign our open letter and then submit your ‘I support net neutrality’ photo into our gallery:

We can’t let this deadline come and go without making Congress remember that the whole Internet is watching. We’re still fighting for net neutrality. And we won’t forget if they betray us.

Tell everyone you know to take action at DeadlineForNetNeutrality.com and spread the word any way you can. Click here to find ideas on how you can use your slice of the Internet – whether that’s your Tumblr blog, a website you run, or any of your social media accounts – to help get the word out. We’re counting on you!

Short comic, while I work on something bigger on the side. It is nevertheless a very important topic. A lot of seabirds die because they eat plastic. They feed their chicks with the waste. It’s really tragic.

The never ending struggle

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