YouTube is ‘actively enabling’ the spread of exploitative content, report finds

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Videos featuring exposed genitals and other body parts of children as young as five are pervasive on YouTube and watched and commented on in huge numbers, a Wired report has found.

The videos, some of which generate millions of views, are often accompanied by predatory comments from people sharing the timestamps of when genitals are exposed or when a child does the splits.

Per Wired, some of the videos in question are exploitative in nature, while others are videos of children — sometimes uploaded by the children themselves — doing regular activities such as yoga and gymnastics. Read more…

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