YouTubes supervised experienceshelp parents choose what content their kids can see
b'help parents choose what content their kids can see\\n\\nYouTube is announcing \\u201csupervised experiences,\\u201d a new set of restrictions that allows parents to better control what content their children can access on the streaming video platform. According to a blog post, YouTube hopes the filters will help parents slowly introduce their older children to age-appropriate content and features outside of the YouTube Kids app. The program will launch first with an early beta, with a wider beta rolling out \\u201cin the coming months.\\u201dParents have three levels of strictness to choose from, which determines the content a child is allowed to view on their account. There\\u2019s the \\u201cExplore\\u201d level, which YouTube says is \\u201cgenerally suitable\\u201d for kids nine and up\\u2019 \\u201cExplore More,\\u201d which is meant for kids 13 and up; and \\u201cMost of YouTube,\\u201d which is pretty much everything except age-restricted content. In the US, and most other countries, people over the age of 13 can make their own unsupervised YouTube accounts. isn\\u2019t clear exactly what content will be allowed at which levels, but YouTube says the \\u201cExplore\\u201d level will have \\u201cvlogs, tutorials, gaming videos, music clips, news, educational content and more.\\u201d As the name suggests, the \\u201cExplore More\\u201d level will have a wider range of videos, as well as live streams for the aforementioned \\u201cExplore\\u201d categories. The company says that \\u201cMost of YouTube\\u201d will contain \\u201csensitive topics that may only be appropriate for older teens.\\u201d\\n\\nFor all its promise, YouTube\\u2019s supervised experiences is still a system that relies on user input, human review, and machine learning. YouTube knows it won\\u2019t be perfect, admitting that it \\u201cwill make mistakes,\\u201d which we\\u2019ve seen happen with the Kids app. As such, parents shouldn\\u2019t think of it as a \\u201cset it and forget it\\u201d solution. They\\u2019ll still need to remain vigilant.\\n\\nNevertheless, the new content options should help parents with children who feel too confined by the Kids app (which YouTube still recommends for younger kids) but are too impressionable to be exposed to the full YouTube experience. YouTube can be a dangerous place full of misinformation and conspiracy, so it\\u2019s good to see Google giving parents tools to help ease their children into it.'