YouTube will identify and restrict minors' accounts with AI (opens in new tab)

I wish we had a content rating system built into the HTTP protocol (via headers that say this page has an R rating, contains nudity, etc).

Like X-Minimum-Recommended-Age or X-Contains-Content-Themes: violence, nudity

Then website authors could flag those things and leave it at that. And parents could actually tell the browser to set allowed content ratings and just refuse to load a page if it gets a header that doesn't match.

That would preserve privacy and all websites would have to do would be to implement a few headers.

I think YT already makes you specify the audience for a video. that would allow us to block certain content without having to block youtube altogether, for example.

Sounds a bit dystopian given the rep YT has regarding support. Good, maybe this will finally be the first blow to youtube and creators will look at better alternatives. It's really about time that the monopoly they created will be challenged. I wish peertube would be any good.

I assume this is in response to that Supreme Court ruling? Is there any pathway to having that ruling thrown out? Like by passing a new federal law?