Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-100.14.50.30-20200409221158/@comment-9605025-20200412192626

reply to #10 As I said in my post, 13 comes from COPPA but additional legislation increases the required age under certain circumstances. It doesn't matter whether or not it "makes sense". The law is the law. Companies don't get to disregard the law simply because they want to. YouTube recently ran into huge trouble with the US government over this very issue. The government decided that even the anonymous collection of viewing patterns for the purpose of targetted advertising violates COPPA. As such, many kid-focused channels have been demonitized. YouTubers who wish to maintain monetization of their channels need to identify their channels as targetting adults. To justify this, they have started intentionally leaving in language that they may have otherwise removed. Even with all of this, if the US government decides they didn't do enough, the individuals who own the channels could be fined over $10,000 per video on their channel each time the government decides to prosecute them. This is a huge issue for older/popular channels which, under these cases, could be looking at millions of dollars in fines. - reply to #11 Have you tried here on Community Central? Does your avatar meet the requirements?