BEING AN ONLINE CONTENT CREATOR FOR “KIDS” IN YOUTUBE APPARENTLY IS NOT A GOOD IDEA.
Read if you want to know more WHY WE QUIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELS. "Being an online content creator for 'KIDS' in YouTube apparently is not a good idea." This is according to a good friend of ours who just told us about the implications of this “COPPA” rule (applicable to US companies like Facebook, Google, YouTube, etc). We’re unaware about this until it was recently mentioned to us. To those who don’t know “COPPA or the “U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act” by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the United States, you may read more about it here . YouTube has been fined by FTC amounting to $170M USD because of violations of COPPA. Content creators who fail to properly identify any child-directed content on the platform will be fined a maximum of $42,000 USD per video. HOW COPPA APPLIES TO CHANNEL OWNERS? So how does COPPA apply to channel owners who upload their content to YouTube or another third-party platform? COPPA applies in...