YouTube CEO Neal Mohan dismisses the idea of joining Meta's multistate child safety settlement, saying YouTube already has measures to protect young users
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Platform child-safety regimes are diverging instead of converging on a common baseline. If your product touches under-18s, you can’t just “follow the big platforms” anymore—document your own standard and assume state AGs will compare you against the strictest model, not the loosest.
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