First, the hero of the occasion is the so-called Online "Safety" Act in the UK, which was supposedly created to protect children from dangerous content (on paper). In reality, it means that sites with an active user base of more than or equal to 34,000,000 must take their personal data to verify their age. But the thing is that there are lesser-known sites with fewer active users and not so strong moderation, which does not prevent anyone from accidentally or not so accidentally finding such content THERE, but this law does not take this into account. It is clear that this already contradicts the laws on privacy and storage of personal data of minors (we will talk about this in more detail later). But why did this trigger others, including me, is because, for some reason, it spreads to the rest of the world too.

Some social networks around the world have introduced an "age check" that prevents people from simply being on them. Not only does this category include content that is not necessarily children's content (animation and games), but it also affects videos in which these changes are directly criticized (YouTube has an ego, you see, it doesn't want to be talked about badly, which is why they removed dislikes at one point and are now limiting videos to people who are suspected of being underage.)

But a few days after this madness began, Google was fined $30,000,000 for collecting and storing personal data of minors, which also violates the COPPA law, which is a sore point for YouTube.

Also, obviously humorous videos have started appearing on YouTube, which are created in order to confuse this AI, which monitors what videos you watch. On the one hand, haha, we laughed a little, but on the other hand, the same jokes, as we know, get on your nerves, and no one in their right mind would want to bother turning on some really serious videos that will be played purely for show, so that they can then continue watching for fun content.

It is also clear that not all social networks have decided to implement this function, for example 4chan, which, by the way, I respect for this. They, in any case, are one of the few who do not suck up to who knows what authorities. And here, by the way, I myself cannot understand why other services that were NOT created in the UK still decided to suck up to the UK authorities, although they have nothing to do with them. Well, just imagine that some other country that had no real deal with you before approaches you with a request to adapt to it, you must agree, this is just kinda stupid.

And a few words about the hypocrisy of the English laws themselves in this regard, which supposedly prohibit people under 18 from watching bad content online, but at the same time, from 16 onwards, they quite calmly allow drinking, smoking, playing casinos, doing drugs and fucking in real life. No comments.

In general, no one is going to fix this crap yet, but that doesn’t mean that we will tolerate it. I have said this and will continue to say it, it is not the government or YouTube that should monitor children, although in reality they don’t even do THAT. Each of us has a full right to personal space, so let's not tolerate this and sit on YouTube while such nonsense is happening there (My advice, if absolutely necessary, there is a service FreeTube, where you can watch videos from YouTube without an account and even customize the platform for yourself in many ways.)

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