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It’s obviously not the design spec to have to hand out tags randomly.

People monetize children's videos by saying they are not for children. Google have been in hot water for serving ads to children and the way around it is to remove ads (or classes of ads) from childrens videos.

Creators wants that extra money so they try to post children videos and calls them “for adult”.

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This still doesn’t follow. If it’s marked for adults and the kids watch it then it isn’t googles fault.

Yes, it is their fault. But it is not like they decided “let us push adult content to children”. Nor is it “let’s randomly decide between adult and childrens content as that might be a great idea”

Obviously a mistake was made. But let’s be real: it was made in an attempt to right wrongs, not in an attempt to wrong rights.

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