This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition To prevent children accessing inappropriate material on YouTube.
At present there are an ever increasing number of videos on YouTube that show favorite children’s characters with voice-overs that contain very strong language often of a sexual nature. Further many videos on YouTube contain material that is very inappropriate for children.
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To oblige the video sharing platform to insist that any person uploading any video categories it as being suitable:
(a) for all children:
(b) for children over 5 years old;
(c) for children over 10 years old;
(d) for children over 15 years old; and
(e) for adults over the age of 18 years only.
The video sharing platform shall use voice technology to determine where expletives are being used within the dialogue of categorized videos and ensure the use of words is age appropriate.
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