Most societies have an expectation that some content isn't shown to, for example a 13 year old person. In the US you have content ratings like NC-17, don't you? In the UK we have 15 and 18 rated content. So I guess content like that, some people would filter for teenagers.
There are very few videos with age restriction and most of them have to do with sexually suggestive content, which doesn't make much sense because teenagers (at least male teens) consume porn anyways.
What kind of unrestricted videos are inappropiate for teens?
Age restriction is sort of a self imposed thing. But on youtube you only have "18+" or "all".
Youtube expects you to rate your videos yourself, or you can get reported and they will do it for you.
Basically content that contains one of the following is supposed to be 18+ [1]:
* Vulgar language
* Violence and disturbing imagery
* Nudity and sexually suggestive content
* Portrayal of harmful or dangerous activities
Personally I put restriction when I upload game videos with graphic violence as that is not really suited for non adults imho. I'm less likely to put restriction on nudity and vulgar language although I don't swear myself in my videos.
Does anyone actually care about that? If anything, a filtering mechanism would backfire because kids & teens would be exclusively seeking out that content because that’s where the “good stuff” would be.
OK but then we're not talking about the real world where teenagers are able to access anything on the internet (regardless of filtering), but a hypothetical world where adults have total control over teenagers.
I guess what I'm saying is that the premise is false.
Most societies have an expectation that some content isn't shown to, for example a 13 year old person. In the US you have content ratings like NC-17, don't you? In the UK we have 15 and 18 rated content. So I guess content like that, some people would filter for teenagers.