YouTube Expands Topics of Teen Binge-Watching Limits
Pointing to feedback from a committee of child development and digital media experts it convened, YouTube said Monday it's widening the set of video categories where it controls teens' binge-watching. Content featuring "get rich quick" schemes or about buying products…
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that show how to buy lottery tickets to get rich will have viewership dispersed, so teens are less able to binge-watch such videos, it said. So too will content that portrays "delinquency or negative behaviors" like cheating on a test or taking part in pranks that negatively affect others, blogged Garth Graham, director-YouTube Health, and James Beser, director-product management for YouTube Youth. They said YouTube will also limit binging content that encourages teens to ridicule others, and it will activate bedtime and "take a break" reminders by default for users younger than 18.