YouTube said it will disable the ability for viewers to leave comments on most videos featuring minors, as it tries to contain the damage from a scandal involving child predators leaving coded sexual comments on the site.
YouTube said in a blog post Thursday that over the past week it had already shut off comments for “tens of millions of videos” that could be subject to predatory behaviour.
Now, it will expand that to suspend comments on virtually all videos featuring young minors, as well as videos featuring older children that “could be at risk of attracting predatory behaviour.”
According to YouTube, a “small number of creators” with videos featuring children will be able to keep comments enabled.
However, YouTube said, it will require those channels to actively moderate their comments and “demonstrate a low risk of predatory behaviour.”
