Why COPPA and the FTC Are Doomed to Failure
Channel: Video Game Story Time
Date: 2019-11-20

Well, you asked for it, so we delivered: a video on the Financial Trading Commission (FTC) and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

Shout out to Arlo, by the way, whose video on this subject is probably a lot more useful if you want to gauge what's really going on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNzimCH4e_k.

This video might upset a lot of people because we're not actively panicking about the future. A lot of noise is being made about this issue, and people are rightly very worried. At the same time, we'd recommend exercising caution and adopting a wait-and-see approach until we find out just how bad things are going to get.

YouTube seems to fall apart every other week. What is with this place?

Anyway, this video featured a lot more of Mrs Field's Cookies than we were expecting, we promise we're not being sponsored. On the other hand, if you want to help us keep the lights on, a donation to our Patreon would be greatly appreciated!

http://patreon.com/videogamestorytime

Anyway, we're interested to see what reaction this video gets. We're going back to something a little more typical next time. Honestly if this weren't a bit of a slow news week, we'd have been inclined to do something else anyway!

Lots of love,
BretonStripes (http://twitter.com/bretonstriped) and Kotor (http://twitter.com/kotorcomics)

Sources:
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2003/02/ftc-receives-largest-coppa-civil-penalties-date-settlements-mrs
https://www.tubefilter.com/2019/05/07/number-hours-video-uploaded-to-youtube-per-minute/