18 Apr. (Portaltic/EP) –
Youtube has updated its content policies related to eating disorders, now prohibiting videos about imitable behaviors or that may pose risks for the integrity of users.
The company has recalled that for a long time it has had community rules aimed at removing content that glorifies or promote these types of problems with foodsuch as anorexia or bulimia.
Now, in a joint effort with associations dedicated to the fight against these disorders -such as the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA)-, it has created a new framework with which it has expanded the scope of its community guidelines and age restrictions. for certain videos of this type.
Thanks to this “close collaboration”, it has managed to improve the understanding “of what imitable behavior means, how it can appear in the content and how it can affect the users.” vulnerable bystanders“, as stated in a statement.
Therefore, from now on it will eliminate those contents that present eating disorders and actions such as vomiting after eating or “severely” restricting calories.
Likewise, the platform has ensured that it will not allow videos in which psychological harassment based on weight is promoted in the context of eating disorders.
youtube too age restrictions will apply in certain videos about these food issues and, as a result, some of these will no longer be available to viewers under the age of 18 if they are not signed in to this Google service.
To exemplify this action, he has commented that he will be able to apply age restrictions to the videos in which a content creator details problems with food while sharing your recovery process.
YouTube is aware that these and other community guidelines are not immediate, so it will take “a while to be fully implemented”, although it has not specified when. such limitations will be available.
SPACES FOR INFORMATION
YouTube has also commented that so-called crisis resource panels are already available in countries such as the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Canada and Germany.
These “provide resources and information from global mental health support organizations,” as the company has explained in this text. Panels appear in the display pages of these countriesunder the videos related to these eating disorders.
These panels, which have not yet reached their users, will be available in each of the official languages of these countries, although Google hopes to launch them both in more countries and with a greater variety of languages.
