YouTube gives creators tools to moderate their own comment sections, including filtering comments, blocking users, and assigning moderators — effectively making creators responsible for their community's conduct.
Viewers interacting in YouTube comment sections are subject to moderation decisions by both YouTube and individual channel creators, who can hide, block, or filter their comments using YouTube-provided tools.
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Compare across platforms →By providing these tools, YouTube shifts a degree of content moderation responsibility onto individual creators, which could have legal implications for creators who fail to moderate harmful content on their channels.
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision implicates EU DSA Articles 22-23 regarding additional moderation obligations for VLOPs; potential GDPR Article 6 lawful basis considerations for processing user data in comment moderation workflows; and US Communications Decency Act Section 230 which provides immunity for good-faith content moderation decisions by both platforms and users acting as moderators. GDPR enforcement is by national DPAs; CDA 230 is relevant to US federal litigation.
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