QUOTE(SubRosa @ Nov 20 2019, 06:36 PM)

So why is it that collecting information about children's online habits is bad (which I am not arguing), but collecting information on adults is good? Should not the law protect everyone of all ages from mega-corporations spying on us and selling our information to the highest bidder?
Because children cannot legally give consent.
As an adult, you presumably are intelligent enough to know what you're getting into when you sign up.
But most people don't read user agreements, just click okay, and go with that.
Not that it's good, but that's just how it is.
Companies are out to make money. They're not going to do something like host youtube out of the goodness of their hearts. That's why Google bought it. Because they thought it'd be a great money maker. It's running at a loss every year and they're trying to reverse that.
Making it so that creators can't make money on kids videos is going to drive off a lot of creators. As it is, if you get falsely copyright striken you can't even contest it because the accuser is the one that gets to approve or deny your appeal.
Youtube is NOT creator friendly and hasn't been for a very long time. This is why I'm thinking of just moving to bitchute for my video hosting. I'll still use youtube, because I watch other stuff like instructional videos, and a lot of twitch streamers host their streams on it(being in Europe, I miss the streams of all my favorites), but I won't host anything new there.
Bitchute requires you to be 16 to make an account, or did when I signed up. It's not really for kids. It'll probably have to adapt a bit, but I'm not sure how much information they actually collect on people. It's still relatively new.