[kmeisthax]

The FTC is going after what is made available to them, and the privacy watchdogs said "hey YouTube Kids still has cookies and behavioral ads on it" so they're going to look into that.

My understanding was that age gating was a purely voluntary practice and that the 1st Amendment bars government enforcement of age gating on media. Almost two decades ago California tried to enforce age gating on video games and got shot down by SCOTUS[0]. I am aware that several deep-red states (e.g. Utah) are trying the same thing for porn. I doubt such a thing will get by SCOTUS, not even today's right-leaning court that's in a 'overturn precedent the liberals like' mood. So if the FTC were to start going after YouTube for Pregnant Elsa Spiderman videos they're likely to have a huge legal battle on their hands.

Let's be perfectly clear: if social media companies are required to ensure a 100% success rate with your kids not seeing garbage on YouTube, then they're going to start requiring age verification for any use of their service. Age verification companies are very scummy and, even if they weren't, requiring you to deal with such a company in order to watch a YouTube video is unnecessarily invasive. Practically speaking, if you want everyone to be able to upload video, then the best you can do for keeping kids out of the gore and porn videos is a series of 'good enough' educated guesses. YouTube is not a babysitter.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Entertainment_Merchan...