"YouTube is updating its policy to age-restrict more content containing video game scenes with "graphic violence," the company announced on Tuesday. The update will go into effect on November 17th and will prevent accounts under 18 and signed-out users from watching videos with games focused on showing "realistic human characters" involved in scenes of "mass violence against non-combatants" or torture. When choosing whether to restrict a video, YouTube says it will take the length of the graphic scene into account, as well as whether it's zoomed in or the main focus of a scene."
"It will also evaluate whether the video shows violence targeted at a character "that looks like a real human." YouTube's post doesn't clarify if this applies to the violence seen in games like Grand Theft Auto, a Call of Duty sequence like the infamous "No Russian" mission, or other kinds of realistically rendered scenes."
YouTube will begin age-restricting additional video game footage that contains graphic violence starting November 17. Accounts under 18 and signed-out users will be prevented from viewing games that focus on realistic human characters involved in mass violence against non-combatants or torture. The company will consider factors such as the length of the graphic scene, whether the imagery is zoomed in or the main focus, and whether the targeted character looks like a real human when deciding restrictions. The policy does not explicitly clarify how it applies to specific realistically rendered game sequences like those in Grand Theft Auto or Call of Duty.
Read at The Verge
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]