Youtube said on Tuesday, March 4, announced that content that directs users to “unapproved” gambling sites will no longer be allowed.
This includes directions made through connections, pictures, texts, logos or oral references.
Youtube defines unapproved gambling sites as sites that do not meet local legal requirements and have not been examined by Youtube or their parent company Google.
This update is recorded as a step that strengthens Youtube’s current policy that prohibits connection to external sites that violate the rules.
Age Restrictions and New Rules
Youtube spokesman Boot Bullwinkle, CNN’e said in a statement, “Unapproved gambling sites or applications that prohibit the content that prohibited the content. In addition, we will bring age limit to content introducing online casinos,” he said.
With the new arrangement, users under the age of 18 and users who do not log in, will not be able to view content introducing online betting sites.
In 2018, the Supreme Court gave the US states the authority to legalize sports betting and made online sports betting into a huge business. With this increase, other types of online betting, such as the election results, became popular.
On YouTube, videos that teach users about how to start making money in online sports betting and prediction markets have been watched hundreds of thousands of times.
However, since online betting arrangements differ locally, experts point out that millions of Americans have the risk of having serious gambling problems.
Youtube has long been forbidding “guaranteed earnings” or gambling content that promises to compensate for loss.
However, he announced that the content related to guaranteed earnings from approved sites will be removed.
What was changed?
Tuesday’s announcement has been another regulation in Youtube’s content moderation policies in recent years.
The platform had adopted an targeted approach by removing videos containing eating disorder behaviors such as incorrect vaccine and abortion information or excessive calorie counts.
In addition, in 2023, it made users to make a statement about misleading artificial intelligence content.
Youtube announced that it will start implementing its new policy as of March 19th. However, the biggest challenge for social media platforms was to implement content moderation policies. Technology giants were criticized for not applying their own rules.
