Ohoy, I'm Luna and I have a very special message before we get started. If you are a child under the age of 13, hit pause and navigate away. I don't have the money for a lawsuit. Okay? Now. Let's begin. What do we do now? What do we do now? What do we do now? What do we do now? So like we have to talk about copper. I originally passed the story by because I didn't think I would be affected and I would likely will not be affected but I might have a video coming up that would be affected because everything is terrible and YouTube is dying. Let's not start there. We'll get to that at the end. First up, copper is the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. It exists to keep companies from tracking identifiable information on children. I definitely get why it exists and I agree with the stated goal of keeping children safe but I believe they've gotten some things wrong in implementation and the responsibility has been shifted into some dangerous areas. YouTube slash Google or Google Tube, as I will say for the rest of this, was using advertisement algorithms to collect personal information on children as well as the recommendation algorithms. Keep that in mind. The problem here is that Gook Tube has been collecting data on children and using it to sell ads for children to see. That's the issue at the core of all of the rest of this. So do not lose sight of it. The FTC has identified child directed content as being problematic when it comes to the data collection and if it's directed at children explicitly, I would agree. I mean, I would agree with data collection being kind of problematic overall but with the privacy implications suggested by the ruling but I agree that there is a priority on child intended content. However, what is happening here is not based on the explicit wishes of a creator. If you do not make child directed content and you say you do not make child directed content but they determine otherwise, you'll be treated as someone who does make child directed content but does not correctly identify it. If your content looks child directed, it could be under scrutiny and if you're a cartoonist or a gamer, I think you may find yourself all pulling the short stick on this one. Let's say for the sake of argument, one were to make a ton of videos about revisiting animated movies with adult lens and you are intent on your videos only reaching people who are above the age of 13 but you are afraid you will get fined. Don't worry, there's an option for you. It's actually a really simple option that nobody's really talking about. If you don't want your videos picking up bad data on kids, just mark your videos as being made for kids. No problem. Well, actually big problem. Not only will they stop picking up ad data but they will stop allowing comments, channel branding, watermark, donate button, cards or end screens, live chat or live chat donations, notification bill, playback in the many players, super chat or super stickers, save to playlists and then if your channel is marked as made for kids, you lose access to story, community tab, notification bell and channel membership options entirely. If you are unsure, feel free to leave your content however you want. At best, you are golden. Second best, you get goob dube corrected you with an automated system with which one must disagree through a manual process. At worst, the FDC will hit you with a fine for goob data collection. Scary, but you know, it's not all bad. It's just mostly bad. Ultimately, the liability rests with the content creator, not goob tube. If their bot doesn't detect something, the FUC would describe as child directed, your ass is still on the line. I keep referring to this term child directed. So let's see what the FTC means by child directed. Child directed in our usage today will be determined by the commission based on its subject matter, visual content, use of animated characters or child oriented activities and incentives, music or other audio content, age of models, presence of child celebrities or celebrities who appeal to children language or other characteristics of the channel itself as well as whether or not the advertising on it is directed at children. They will also consider reliable and empirical data on intended and actual audience to be evidence. So that's an upsettingly large umbrella that includes a lot of things my colleagues make. Delt's like things that kids like because age is a friggin binary. We don't just suddenly shift what we like when we get older. It should evolve over time and talking about childhood is how we keep that alive. It shouldn't be on us who are actual audiences. It should be on the website serving those videos and ads to children. Goob-Dub is pushing the blame on us while making it very clear where the buck stops. Us creators are not entrepreneurs but the FTC has made it clear in their ruling that we are to be considered as such. Even though we have no say over whether or not ad data is collected on our content without burying it, if we continue to post here it is going to be construed as agreeing with this ludicrous premise and we will bear legal responsibility. What this means right now is that a lot of people need to start seeking alternatives and if not alternatives, a lawyer. I'm not kidding. If you are intending on staying and getting anywhere near the gray areas, get a lawyer. You are now a business. Right now I've migrated my YouTube channel delivery, a decentralized or distributed version of something like YouTube. There's also peer-to before federated versions of something like YouTube, but that requires servers and that's pricey at the moment. Only real danger of moving somewhere else is pro-tform instability but the Titanic is sinking and we can't sit around rearranging the deck chairs forever. We either have to fix this boat or abandon ship and we don't have the power to fix it ourselves unless we take over and that's let's just not go there to add. I believe a link to the Creator Migration Program. If you qualify or videos will be re-hosted by Liberty. I may do a video on Liberty and how it works later, but right now I'm just worried about y'all out there getting fine for some grade A nonsense. Find a new home for this place is for us no longer. We, the sailors of these seas, the builders of movements on not-but-words-inspired-it-at-doby products. We, the workers in the cities, the foundations of media big and small but mostly small, no doubt. We, the content creators who run this town, who are being given the choice between taking over someone else's legal responsibility and just moving somewhere else will move somewhere else. Thus continues capitalism's cannibalization of its own fed-in corpse. As entrepreneurship slides into the mall, reduced to independent contractor as another name for employee. For us there is no home here so let's find a new one. I would appreciate feedback and comments though if you are abusive I've all deleted. Sources and Patreon is always on the description. I've been Luna. See you later.