YouTube Takes Drastic Steps After Pedophile Controversy

The online video platform YouTube is taking drastic steps after reports that a pedophiles were using comments sections to target children caused advertisers to abandon the site in droves.

According to Ars Technica, some videos hosted on the website were discovered to contain highly questionable and predatory images of children that pedophiles were linking to each other. . .

The company has also permanently banned comments from channels that were caught with a history of “predatory comments.”

“Based on our review of historical comments, a small number of channels that we have identified as having a high level of risk for predatory comments will not be able to re-enable comments, even with moderation,” the statement from the company read. . .

YouTube has also been criticized by parents who have discovered videos meant to be viewed by children that had secret messages encouraging suicide.