For those of you are unaware, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently discovered that YouTube was in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act (COPPA), a law that is meant to keep companies from gathering data on children under 13.

Of course every child lies about their age online.

Now this wouldn’t be such a problem if it weren’t for the settlement that the FTC and YouTube came to over the violation.

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This video clears up the misunderstandings of the COPPA-imposed fines and apparently, it will only affect big/major/monetized creators or those who are members of the YouTube Partner Program.

Does this give you a sense of relief?

The worst part of COPPA regulations?

YouTube passive-aggressively judging me for being a grown-up watching a kids' show.

Does anyone know a good way to get screenshots on here? I went from print screen to powerpoint to JPEG to imgBB. Yuck.

Before anyone panics anymore, here is a video that makes a lot of sense and before you judge it, watch it to find out.

Hello MetaVerse fans! 

As we were recently startled by COPPA and its wider implications starting at the 1st of the year when it encompasses all websites, we have taken EquestrianCity.Com offline. 

At the advice of our webmasters we will remain offline until we can afford a lawyer as the FCC guidelines recommend to scan each and every item constantly. As they do not typically come cheap, this may be a dealbreaker. 

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It finally bit me. I finally found it. I finally found a COPPA attack. And its JoJo.

A lovely channel has compiled all of Jonathan Young's JoJo OP covers and put them over their respective footage of each OP from the Anime. Now, before this COPPA bull, he had a thousand ish subscribers and quite a few comments.

Know how many he has now? 929. Including me.

Check it out yerself!

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ProMonarchyGenius is no more, Brony God lives. I decided to change my name and avatar in both here in Fimfiction and Youtube today and I made all of my Youtube videos Private until forther notice because of the COPPA Scandal that is threatening to ruin the lives of millions of Youtube users. I am still called ProMonarchyGenius in Deviantart soley because I don't want to pay money for Core Membership just to change my name in there. Let's hope and pray that the COPPA debacle does not affect the

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Okay, okay. I honestly do not see why so many people are up in arms about this. Like, I don't.

Hell, even the video itself at 1:30 explains that you can just set your channel via advanced settings to 'not for kids' and that really should be the end of it right?

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Hello MetaVerse fans,

Recently our former web hosts decided that it was in both our best interests to move to a new set of maintainers. We wish them their best as changes in their lives and careers have been bumpy at times.

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Now that YouTube has started complying with COPPA on January 6, videos of cartoons such as Steven Universe and Infinity Train, as well as some fan-made MLP content have all their comments turned off. Also, whenever I stream YouTube on my phone, it shows a heads up saying, "Miniplayer is off for videos made for kids. Tap play to resume." It means that I can't play kid-friendly videos whilst searching for other videos to watch. That's just great. YouTube viewing experience is now being restricted

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My friend Hollywood God speaks the truth about Google Stadia a gaming service that deserves to fail especially after the COPPA scandal broke out that is threatening to destroy millions of Youtube channel.

Hi everybody, and good morning. So, if you haven't heard, there's this thing with YouTube lately and COPPA (Child Online Privacy Protection Act). COPPA is a good law which prevents the collection of data on children under 13 years old. And, well, YouTube broke that law. So they got sued by the FTC. $170 million, a pittance, really.

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