Well, in theory that's wonderful, but big government also means a big jackboot. Like, say, chemically castrating someone for being gay.
Or fire bombing a building in a densely populated urban neighborhood.
What could go wrong there! 61 houses burned down? Oooops!
COPPA is a "for the children" law that in its face looks benevolent. But along comes youtube, and the government and Google got in to a dustup over COPPA.
So Google winds up having to shit out $170 million. But the people who are really going to get the screw from this are the youtube creators.
Google, not wanting to shit out more money to the government, is foisting the responsibility for this abortion on to the creators. Creators now have to try to figure out(and this is NOT clear cut) whether their content is for kids, kids and adults, or just adults. Kid content gets demonetized, no $$$ 4 U!! Oh but it gets even worse. Because if a creator's content they labeled as adult is deemed "kid directed" by the government, they can get slapped with a $42,530 fine, per video.
While obviously Thomas the Choo Choo train is "kid directed" it can get fuzzy. Is a video with some toys in the background "kid directed"?
Maybe the solution is for creators to begin every video by saying "Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck" to the sound of disco with animated dancing penises in the background.
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