Youtube why comments disabled

And while the company acknowledged the severity of the changes and the impact it may have on YouTubers, it said it was taking action to prevent the exploitation of minors on the platform. YouTube also is speeding up the launch of a new classification tool that can detect and remove twice as many individual comments as in the past — accelerating the automation of content moderation which could, itself, have unintended consequences.

In a related move designed to protect children from abhorrent content, YouTube has terminated the channel FilthyFrankClips and several other channels that were reportedly instructing children on how to slash their wrists. Dear Creators, We know that many of you have been closely following the actions we're taking to protect young people on YouTube and are as deeply concerned as we are that we get this right.

We want to update you on some additional changes we're making, particularly in regards to comments, building on the efforts we shared last week. We recognize that comments are a core part of the YouTube experience and how you connect with and grow your audience. At the same time, the important steps we're sharing today are critical for keeping young people safe.

Thank you for your understanding and feedback as we continue our work to protect the YouTube community. Below is a summary of the main steps we've taken to improve child safety on YouTube since our update last Friday:. Over the past week, we disabled comments from tens of millions of videos that could be subject to predatory behavior.

These efforts are focused on videos featuring young minors and we will continue to identify videos at risk over the next few months. Over the next few months, we will be broadening this action to suspend comments on videos featuring young minors and videos featuring older minors that could be at risk of attracting predatory behavior.

A small number of creators will be able to keep comments enabled on these types of videos. These channels will be required to actively moderate their comments, beyond just using our moderation tools, and demonstrate a low risk of predatory behavior. To that end, the company terminated channels of FilthyFrankClips and other users who were found to be splicing in self-harm clips into longer videos featuring cartoons.

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