@alidan  
Are you serious man? First the changes with COPPA and now this? What’s next? Will YouTube end up shutting down because of all of this drama? I totally find this hard to believe. I seriously hope that YouTube doesn’t shut down.

somehow, youtube doing this across a large portion of content is going to push things like dissenter or whatever company does the ‘comment anywhere’ idea next. here’s hoping it won’t be full of morons smearing it so it actually has a chance to take off.

The reason why YouTube turned off comments on kids content is to completely comply with COPPA. They said they needed to do this to comply with the law. I too am somewhat uncomfortable with this new change with YouTube. Not only that, but they also disabled features such as post notifications, the mini player, and end screens for kids content as well.