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DS has gotten himself into a sticky spot with YouTube

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Linus33 · 16/05/2014 07:36

My 12yo DS has gotten himself into a situation with YouTube. We've given him a pretty free rein with the internet but have monitored his viewing and relied quite heavily on family safety settings with our ISP. This seems to have failed pretty catastrophically as I noticed last night that on his YouTube channel he's like some pretty inappropriate stuff (I.e. porn).

He's been doing some creative uploads with his brother which includes quite a lot of video editing and the like which I haven't discouraged. Of course, these were nice to share with family and he's now hyperventilating realising that 'granny' can see what he's liked. Blush

Does anyone have any ideas how I can unstick from the mess he's gotten himself into? Can you remove a YouTube channel completely? How can we remove a like from a video? Un liking it will give us the same problem! Any suggestions for family protection for his laptop and tablet?

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Linus33 · 16/05/2014 07:40

Just realised that's there not a huge amount of traffic on this board so I'll repost. I'll update this thread with any advice I receive. Smile

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Linus33 · 16/05/2014 18:11

Following my initial panic, I calmed down and set up family safety everywhere on the browser on YouTube and set up a child's account on his laptop which he'll use from now on!

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