Before I begin, I must point out that a previous user here urged for COPPA restrictions to be removed from YouTube and when he talked about bots uploading videos of adult-oriented popular culture and marking them as kids' content, he used South Park (TV-MA), Goodfellas (R), Family Guy (TV-14), and Robot Chicken (TV-MA) which makes sense as they are not for kids, but he also used Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me despite being rated PG-13 which is unrestricted so kids of any age could see it on their own when it came out, but if he had used NYPD Blue instead, it would've made more sense because it's rated TV-14 as it was immediately controversial when it premiered on ABC on September 21, 1993 because it broke TV barriers with its adult content (eg. partial nudity, violence, sexually suggestive content, and adult language) as it was touted as TV's first R-rated series which caused religious groups and concentered parents often protesting the series and many ABC stations refused to air it, much like what South Park did when it premiered on Comedy Central four years later with a TV-MA rating. In fact, all three Austin Powers films are rated PG-13 and there are so many other film series where one or more films are rated PG-13 or ones that were rated PG and would likely have a PG-13 rating today and there were ones in a LEGO video game where they toned down on the adult content to make it kid-friendly which you can research yourself such as with the toned-down violence, censored language and themes and the cultural sensitivity. There are even other licensed kids' products based on those movies and there's nothing wrong with that. It's too painful to think about and I hate looking at it and the picture for it so the picture you see for this petition was created with Animal Crossing: New Horizons which is an example of what happens when children get exposed to adult content from watching videos of inappropriate popular culture with technology. He didn't even explain in-detail about specific popular culture that's inappropriate for kids which is important. Remember, the rule of a K-8 school district for students with popular culture is PG-13 and under for movies, TV-PG and under for TV stuff and T and under for video games.

Thus he should've said:

These include South Park, Goodfellas, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, NYPD Blue.

That sentence works so much better as he would've pointed out five different examples of popular culture that would never be shown to elementary and middle school students anywhere or a K-8 school district in shorter terms. The five different examples are an animated show that uses cutout animation with computers which is rated TV-MA, a live-action movie that's rated R, a traditional animated show that's rated TV-14, a stop-motion animated show that's rated TV-MA and a live-action TV show that's rated TV-14.

Now onto what I have to say:

We MUST remove COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) restrictions on YouTube once and for all since having them there is ridiculous as they are super ineffective and border on censorship which is the real problem with R & NC-17 movies, M & Adults Only video games & TV-14 & TV-MA programs which I'll go into later. When it comes to "for kids" videos which set by either the uploader or bot, they have several features disabled like the miniplayer being turned off, not allowing likes, dislikes and comments, not being able to add them to a playlist which forces you to do so through other means, even if the YouTuber has playlists of their own, you can't see a preview for them in the user's account or in the search results, you can't download them and not showing up in the results while watching other videos and elsewhere around YouTube, all of which are ridiculous. Likewise, for YouTubers who are like that, there is no three vertical dots next to their videos which allows you to share them, save to Watch later or to a playlist, add to queue and download them or if you're using a mobile device, you can only share them while you can't search for videos and their account and if you subscribe to them, you cannot get notifications whether none, personalized or all as they are disabled so your only other option is to unsubscribe which really hurt me so much with Wilmette District 39's YouTube account that I hid it from my account and I took a break from using a computer for about two weeks. There are even college, school, sports and other types of accounts with organizations of a variety of topics that are like that when they should NEVER be like that since those videos are not just for kids, but for everyone else. Imagine how controversial it would be if they wanted kids to see any adult-oriented media that's beyond the TV-PG rating for TV, the PG-13 rating for movies and T rating for video games. What's worse is that there a lot of YouTubers who've been inactive for a long time and their videos were forcibly recategorized as being "for kids" and they got messages telling them that, but they never responded which is very bad for obvious reasons. For Rboffill, a YouTuber who made videos of Thomas Wooden Railway stuff like unboxing videos, remakes, layouts and others while also playing with model trains, if that had happened to him, had he been on YouTube much longer or he had been inactive forever, it would've been to painful since he used profanity and did videos related to adult-oriented media which would've been comparable to what happens when children are tricked into seeing popular culture that they're not age-appropriate for so he did the right thing by closing his account on his sixth anniversary on YouTube of April 13, 2014.

What's really worse however about having COPPA restrictions on YouTube is that there are videos, both by uploaders and bots of adult-oriented media (both animated and live-action), even though they are rife with adult content like swearing, drug abuse, porn, murder, sexual assault, child abuse sexually suggestive content, graphic violence, alcohol, morally ambiguous characters, blood, and other traumatic situations, but they are marked as kids' content which is a case of false advertising and you cannot share your thoughts or comment on them at all which is not cool. Among those include South Park, Robot Chicken, Family Guy, R-rated movies, X and NC-17 movies, TV-14 & TV-MA programs and M-rated and Adults Only video games. TV-14 programs besides Family Guy include The Closer, NYPD Blue (as mentioned above), the Law & Order franchise, Homicide: Life on the Street, ER, 24, the CSI franchise and Without a Trace, among so many others. Likewise, TV-MA programs besides South Park include Jackass (MTV), Nip/Tuck, The Bear (FX), The Sopranos, The Penguin, Preacher, Ren & Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon, Dexter (Showtime), Robot Chicken, The Boondocks, Metalocalypse, The Boys, Invincible and Game of Thrones.

Here are three things related to live-action TV shows and one live-action movie featuring kids I will go in detail about why they are inappropriate for kids and would never be shown in elementary and middle schools:

1. The first is Cold Case since it should've been rated TV-MA and not TV-14 since it's way too mature for kids with a notable example being that Lilly Rush who is so tough and traumatized as a detective where she has an alcoholic mother, having difficult relationships with and a difficult childhood with a dark backstory that makes no sense since it's illegal for a child to purchase alcohol, but one way you could fix it without alcohol is by having it be more like Daniel LaRusso from The Karate Kid (which unlike Cold Case is appropriate for children). Due to her past, she is often emotionally closed off and has trouble forming healthy relationships which can trick children into learning unhealthy ways of dealing with their emotions, particularly for older students who may be exploring complex character traits. Thus, she doesn't model the healthy communication and emotional resilience skills that children need. The look of the flashback scenes would scare children too much where they used however footage looked at the time as much as possible, although there has been kids' stuff that also did that with a notable example being the diary scene in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, although in that scene, Harry is in full color while the rest of the footage is in black and white while using generic music which really shows how you can do a flashback scene in popular culture without using licensed music and that film came out a year before Cold Case premiered and that film is okay for kids. The episodes of Cold Case would scare children too much from start to finish and cause trauma, nightmare, fear, anxiety or other potential side effects, due to the frightening stories and images such as the graphic depictions of injuries, and while murders are often shown in flashbacks rather than graphically, the series explores how victims died in detail which would be highly disturbing and psychologically damaging for children. Other adult content for the show and other stuff that would be considered too edgy for kids include the blood and gore, sexual themes, graphic violence, terrible wigs, drugs, smoking, alcohol, profanity (not excessive though), a woman screaming in the intro, how everyone is a stereotype, flashing back and forth between the past and the present which could cause younger viewers to have a jump scare. Kids would have no way of watching an episode of the show from start to finish because of all that.
2. The second is The Closer which is about the LAPD Major Crimes division and it's centered on murder investigations as it frequently deals with mature and disturbing subject matter, such as murder, discussions of weapons and murders, intense emotional interrogations, complex situations, computer recreations of crime scenes, rape, prostitution, explicit depiction of violence, strong language and sex. It even has complex, gritty and dark storylines that involve murder investigations, mature dialogue, and depictions of dead bodies and other disturbing crime scenes. Plus, it delves into the psychological aspects of criminal investigations, which may be difficult for children to process. The adult situations in the show include complex adult relationships, power dynamics, and ethical dilemmas that are too edgy for a younger audience. It handles adult themes like murder, prostitution, rape, and drug & alcohol use while exploring the darker aspects of human nature and criminal activity. Examples of scenes that can scare kids include a lingering, detailed scene of a decomposing body in one episode, a gruesome death scene with a decomposing naked female shot in the face in the pilot episode, a dialogue exchange in the pilot episode which is "No need to be a bitch about it." to which Brenda replies "If I liked being called a bitch to my face, I'd still be married.", Brenda saying "Who's the bitch now?" in another episode, the episode "Problem Child" which features a violent, troubled 13-year old who is found murdered, and even a scene in another episode where a woman gets stabbed several times and falls into her pool as she dies. Brenda Leigh Johnson who is the main character, can even negatively impact kids, due to how unethical and unprofessional she is as a deputy chief which could cause them to think of what Brenda would be like as their teacher in school and they would get the wrong message since she's an example of what a teacher or administrator cannot be like in any school or college and she's like the Joker from the Batman Arkham video game series (which is appropriate for kids unlike The Closer). Due to her extreme work addiction, it leads to her having a bad personal life with a most notable one being her mother dying tragically because of Brenda constantly putting her off so the lack of presence could cause deep-seated issues for a child, making them feel abandoned and unimportant. They would even get annoyed by her fake Southern accent since Kyra Sedgwick was actually born and raised in New York City. All of that can cause kids to have fear, emotional distress, nightmares, trauma, anxiety, depression, and confusion, due to them not being developmentally equipped to understand mature and violent subject matter and may desensitize them to the suffering of others or even damage their minds which is why it has the TV-14 rating. Imagine a child having a nightmare of Brenda arresting them and being interrogated or of her being a teacher or administrator. It would be too mature for obvious reasons if you put her in a kids' show or anything else where the intended audience is children. The show's logo and DVD covers can even scare them too much with one showing Brenda wearing police tarp clothing and another which shows her sitting on one side of a giant handcuff. As with Cold Case, they would have a bad experience watching the series as they would be unable to watch an episode from start to finish.
3. For the third TV series I'm going to talk about, it'll be ER because even though it's a great show that was popular during its original run on NBC and it won a lot of awards, it's rated TV-14 (as mentioned above), due to the adult content on the show like almost every episode involving a character dying (onscreen or offscreen), it has alcohol, drugs and smoking that’s seen and mentioned on the series, there is mild profanity, sexual content, nudity, violence & gore, and moderately graphic medical detail, resulting in the series being inappropriate for kids and it's too scary for them. Another way you can put it is that it contains graphic content and mature themes. More specifically, the episodes often contain realistic, bloody and upsetting images of injuries and surgical procedures, the storylines are intense as the series deals with heavy and mature plots like abuse, drug addiction, suicide, mental illness, racism and domestic violence with a perfect example being the episode "Time of Death" where Ray Liotta played an ex-con and alcoholic named Charlie Metcalf who dies in real time which would cause children to have really bad side effects like the scene where Metcalf hallucinates that he's in a train station, when he says "I never believed in God. That might bite me in the ass now, huh?" and they could have nightmares from seeing him die at the end of the episode. Likewise, Nurse Carol Hathaway's attempted suicide in the pilot episode is a major plot point in the pilot episode which would be too mature for a kids' show. Plus, the show contains a depiction of substance abuse as the characters on it regularly struggle with drug and alcohol addiction in both their personal and professional lives. As for the sexual content, while it's not explicit, the show often features romantic and sexual relationships between characters (eg. affairs and suggested sex) and sexual stuff that is too edgy for kids. 
4. A notable live-action movie featuring kids that's not for them is the 1993 movie The Good Son which features kids with Macaulay Culkin & Elijah Wood when they were kids, but it's rated R for acts of violence and terror involving a disturbed child, thus making it very inappropriate for kids as you see a psychopath kid named Henry Evans who is so malevolent, uses the f-word on his own cousin, smokes and forces his own cousin to do it, and he tries to kill someone about seven times throughout the film. This includes drowning his baby brother in the bathtub, shoots at a cat and misses with a nail gun, but he later kills a dog with it, drops a dummy off a bridge that causes a car pile-up on the highway, tries drowning his little sister by making her fall through the ice, but she is saved and is hospitalized in a coma, he pushes his mother off a cliff, and he tries to kill his own cousin as well. The film even has two uses of "goddamn", a few uses of milder terms and a couple of s-words. Roger Ebert does a great job explaining in his half-star review of the film as to why it’s inappropriate for kids. He even got letters from parents that asked him if it was okay for their kids and his answer was no.

Even worse, there are YouTube videos of children's popular culture that are marked as kids' content when they shouldn't be since they actually have content that's inappropriate for kids and thus they shouldn't see them.

Here are many examples of what I'm talking about which will be theatrical movies:

1.  The 1992 movie Frozen Assets which should've been rated R and not PG-13 which you know if you read Roger Ebert's review.
2. The 1994 movie North which Roger Ebert hated so much is rated PG, but it's actually inappropriate for kids as noted in Roger Ebert's review where he explains very strongly as to how abysmal it is and why it's not for kids, as it has content that's not okay for them like pedophilia references, how the premise of a boy dumping his parents in response to them not paying attention to them makes no sense, profanity (although there are better kids' movies with profanity), sexual jokes (eg. a drink called Sex on the Beach and a joke involving testicles which is "Your balls stick to your leg like Krazy Glue!"), the Borscht Soup on North's hat looking more like blood and the starling stupidity and offensive caricature in the scenes where North auditions new parents and both Ebert and Gene Siskel both picked it as the worst movie of 1994.
3. The Ant Bully movie which is rated PG, but it actually has toilet humor, nudity and most parts of the humor being unfunny and cringeworthy which are too edgy for kids so I can easily Roger Ebert disliking it, finding it to be inappropriate for kids and advising them to watch both Antz and A Bug's Life instead since he gave both films three-and-a-half stars out of four.
4. The abysmal animated movie Foodfight! which has content inappropriate for its intended audience of children like the animation, humor, using product placement as a central theme and targeting it towards them and references to Nazism and sexual innuendo so it easily feels like a film that Roger Ebert  would've gave zero stars.
5. The Garbage Pail Kids Movie which was marketed towards children, but it's actually completely inappropriate for them.
6. The 2006 animated movie Everyone's Hero which is rated G, but it has an annoying, over-the-top acting style that's not suitable for its target audience of children. In contrast, The Incredibles has a PG rating and it does a much better job with an acting style that's suitable for children which is the right thing as it's the intended audience.

What's really worse as well is that there are sports videos that are marked as kids' content when they shouldn't be since they're not just for kids, but everyone else and there are ones that are actually too edgy for kids with a notable one being of Salt Walther's fiery crash in the aborted start in the 1973 Indianapolis 500 on Monday, May 28, 1973, although children who witnessed the crash while in attendance at the race or saw it on the tape-delayed telecast on ABC were so scared and the same goes with the accidents in the 1998 Michigan 500 CART race and the canceled 1999 Visionaire 500K IRL race, both of which involved three spectators killed and several others were injured with two of the injured spectators in the latter being children while none of the injured spectators in the former were children. Likewise, there are YouTube videos of kids' popular culture that parody adult popular culture that would never be shown in a K-8 school district like The Sopranos, Law & Order, South Park, Robot Chicken or Family Guy when they shouldn't be, although kids themselves likely had no problem with those references while acknowledging that they must avoid the adult stuff. Similarly, there are videos of Roger Ebert reviewing movies on TV via the At the Movies program which are marked as kids' content when they shouldn't be. I even found a video of the 2009 Final Destination film which was marked as kids' content when it's actually rated R, meaning kids under 17 could not see it unless they had an adult with them.

When I attended elementary school, I got into trouble for talking about Family Guy at the start of 4th Grade which made me realize that it's inappropriate for kids with the TV-14 rating and I shouldn't have talked about and watched it at all during 2nd & 3rd Grade and during the 2009 Summer Enrichment Program at the same school. You can easily imagine how worse it could've been if I had talked about South Park instead as the reactions would've been much more negative. It got worse throughout 4th Grade as I ended up having to thwart attempts by kids who tried to talk about it and when they asked me "Do you like Family Guy?" as I began phasing out of the series in my personal life and I completely forgot about it by the end of the school year which was the right thing. It was my fault because I should've known better that Family Guy is not for kids. After that, I avoided the series until I was done with 8th Grade to the point that during my freshman year in high school, but during the time in between, I witnessed a staff member mentioning Family Guy directly when he shouldn't have which was in 8th Grade social studies when he criticized the series for being gross when wasting time by monologuing over Adam West's birthday which was unethical and unprofessional since the rule for K-8 staff members regarding TV-14 & TV-MA programs, R & NC-17 movies & M & Adults Only video games is that they can ONLY talk about them with staff as long as there are no students nearby and the only time they should mention it to a student is if they reference them in any capacity which all the other staff members I worked in the K-8 school district I attended did so, most notably when I got into trouble for talking about Family Guy in 4th Grade (as mentioned above). As a result, when the 8th Grade teacher criticized Family Guy for being gross, it violated professional boundaries, it could've created a hostile environment, it misused a position of power, and it modeled unprofessional communication. None of the other staff I worked with in school did that or even made racist and rapist jokes, snapped at students, talked too much about politics and monologued which are not okay in any teaching position so I'm so thankful for them and I give them a big thumbs up as those are things that you must avoid doing in any teaching or administration position.

During my time in the K-8 school district I attended, they never showed any movies above the PG-13 rating, TV stuff above the TV-PG rating and video games above the M rating, although one exception was when they showed footage of the first three Child's Play movies for the Read 180 topic that was related to the horror genre and I can see why they did that since they're a notable example of one which was the right thing. I remember being in science class in 8th Grade and they showed a clip from the 1993 movie Jurassic Park which was okay because of the PG-13 rating. There were plenty of PG-rated movies that they showed to me and other students during middle school like the first Shrek film, the 2013 animated movie Turbo, Over the Hedge, Bee Movie and the 2010 version of The Karate Kid.

Having new features to comply with COPPA restrictions like a "general audience" setting for videos so it's not directed towards children, nor adults alone, COPPA restrictions applying to parents and children accounts only and allowing users to flag videos for being mislabeled as "for kids" where they would write the review ensure accuracy and if the reviewer (who cannot be a bot agrees), the video is changed to "not for kids" would be ineffective. A perfect example of the latter is having to flag and report so many videos based on specific popular culture that's inappropriate for kids and another situation being too many sports videos that are marked as kids' content and getting so exhausted from doing all that and/or prioritizing that over other things like work or other commitments which would be so bad. Imagine getting so stressed out from having to flag so many South Park videos that are mislabeled as "for kids" since it's rated TV-MA, the theatrical movie South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is rated R and the video games based on the series are rated M.

If we act quickly and sign this petition, we'll be able to increase attention a lot and realize how implementing COPPA restrictions on YouTube or "for kids" videos in other words was a big mistake in the first place because after all, YouTube was never meant to be for children and based on what I mentioned earlier which is super strong and how important it is to help kids avoid stuff that they are not age-appropriate for. Removing COPPA restrictions from YouTube for good would be the right thing and everyone would feel so much better and YouTube is related to social media. When I was a kid, they usually blocked YouTube in elementary and middle schools in an effort to prevent students from seeing inappropriate material which was the right thing and not having COPPA restrictions on YouTube made more sense so it should be like that like beforehand and it would feel a lot better since they're so ridiculous. As I said at the start of this petition, the rule about what popular culture would be shown to K-8 students is TV programs with a TV-PG & under, video games with a T rating and under, and movies with a PG-13 rating and under so keep that in mind.