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by ballenf 586 days ago
I'm skeptical unless the company has promised its shows to be safe for epileptics. Is this because it's for kids?

Anyone have a source for this?

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> unless the company has promised its shows to be safe for epileptics

Many jurisdictions have regulations requiring this. It’s also not a tough criteria to fulfill. Most of the things you need to avoid are pretty obvious, and the less obvious things can be caught by automated tools. The blowback for creating or hosting epilepsy-triggering content is pretty intense. It’s not something most companies want to play around with.

I don’t get why people want CrunchyRoll to host this content so bad. It feels like people demanding to be able to set off firecrackers on a wheelchair ramp. Sure it probably won’t hurt anyone most of the time, but why do people want this one specific thing so badly when they can get it somewhere else?

If you host (and charge for access to) content that causes a seizure and don't have warnings & stuff then there's a good argument to be made that your negligence caused any seizures that may arise.

Especially if there's a perfectly good non-seizure causing version right there.

Promising that content won't cause seizures is one thing, knowing that it already has is another.