YouTube has decided to remove 'violent' and 'mature' videos targeting children. As first spotted by The Verge, YouTube will monitor video titles, tags and description to pull the plug on such videos. Up until now, YouTube would only age-restrict videos deemed violent or unsafe for minors. However, this could change pretty soon since YouTube already announced the news via YouTube Help Community Forum a couple of days ago. Here's what we know:

Child safety on YouTube

Announcing these changes, here is what YouTube had to say on its Help Community Forum:

"On August 21, we expanded our child safety policies to better protect the family experience on YouTube. Content that targets young minors and families but contains sexual themes, violence, obscene, or other mature themes not suitable for young audiences, is not allowed on YouTube."

YouTube also uploaded a video explaining what it means. Watch the video below:

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Types of videos that are no longer allowed on YouTube

YouTube has made it clear that sexually explicit content featuring minors and content that sexually exploits minors is no longer allowed on YouTube.

"We report content containing child sexual abuse imagery to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who work with global law enforcement agencies," said YouTube.

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In addition to videos showing dangerous acts involving minors or infliction of emotional distress on minors, YouTube also warned against uploading misleading family content. For example, adult cartoons.

"This includes family-friendly cartoons that target young minors and contain adult or age-inappropriate themes such as violence, sex, death, drugs etc," YouTube added.

30-day grace period

YouTube's decision to weed out violent and mature videos pretending to be kid-friendly comes amid mounting pressure on Google-owned video platform to create a safe environment for minors. YouTube has allowed offenders a 30-day grace period to learn from their mistakes and stop repeating the same mistakes again and again. Following a grace period, YouTube will start banning offenders. YouTube will remove videos that include sex, death or violence. In short, YouTube will remove any video that is deemed inappropriate for youngsters.