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YouTube is updating its policies to more strictly age-restrict videos featuring realistic human violence in gaming, online gambling, and social casino content, starting November 17, to better align with industry standards and protect younger audiences.
YouTube has decided to keep the graphic police body camera video of the Nashville school shooting online, despite its policy against violent content. The company stated that the video is in the public interest and can educate people about the incident. However, the video has been age-restricted and comes with a warning interstitial. YouTube is also monitoring its platform for videos, livestreams, and comments that glorify violence. Other social media platforms, such as Facebook, have presented the video in a similarly restricted way. Videos of mass shootings have been a tricky problem for tech platforms, which have banned the reposting of videos created by shooters themselves.
YouTube has decided to keep the graphic police body camera video of the Nashville school shooting online, despite its policy against violent content. The company said the video was in the public interest as it can educate people about what happened during the shooting incident. The video has been age-restricted with a warning interstitial and will remain on YouTube. Facebook presented the video in a similarly restricted way. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department posted about six minutes of footage on the department's YouTube and Facebook pages Tuesday morning, combining views from two officers' body cameras.