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YouTube announced Wednesday that it will allow tweens or teens to open their accounts within guidelines set by their parents to restrict inappropriate content.
“We’ve heard from parents and older kids that tweens and teens have different needs, which our products didn’t fully meet,” YouTube’s director of product management for kids and families, James Beser, was quoted as saying by the news agency. AFP.
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“We are announcing a new option for parents who have decided that their tweens and teens are ready to explore YouTube with a supervised account.”
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Beser said an initial version of such accounts will be launched in the coming months and will allow parents to use their Google accounts to give their children access to YouTube with content and feature restrictions.
The service will have a “browse” option for parental control settings that will have videos deemed appropriate for children nine years and older, for example, tutorials, game videos, music clips, educational and news content.
A second setting will allow children to watch videos that are suitable for ages 13 and older and will include live broadcasts.
For most content on the platform, there will be a “most of YouTube” setting, which will block only sensitive or age-restricted topics that are only suitable for adults.
The YouTube official said the new service is “designed for parents” who want to give their children access to the platform, but with “limits.”
“We will use a combination of user input, machine learning and human review to determine which videos are included,” said Beser.
“We know that our systems will make mistakes and continue to evolve over time.”
