FILE - This March 20, 2018 file photo shows the YouTube app on an iPad in Baltimore. YouTube is updating its hate speech policies to prohibit videos with white supremacist and neo-Nazi content. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
The chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission asked children’s privacy advocates whether having video creators on YouTube disable ads could resolve concerns the site is violating laws to protect kids, according to a person familiar with the conversation.
During a July 1 call, chairman Joseph Simons and fellow Republican Commissioner Noah Phillips suggested the world’s largest video site wouldn’t need to move all children’s content to a separate platform as advocates have proposed, according to the person. Instead, individual channels could disable advertising to bring the site into line with a US law’s ban on collecting information on children under age 13 without parental permission.
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