DPS minimizes access to potentially mature and/or objectionable content by enforcing YouTube Restricted Mode for all student accounts.
YouTube Restricted Mode filters out potentially mature content on YouTube by analyzing titles, descriptions, metadata, and age restrictions. Metadata refers to information about the video such as the upload date, creator, video description, and tagged keywords.
Strict Restricted Mode:
Student accounts are set at the Strict Restricted access level, the most restrictive. Videos containing potentially mature and/or objectionable content will not be available to student accounts with Strict Restricted mode enabled. This mode does not block all videos, but works as an automated filter to screen out questionable videos while leaving other videos available for viewing.
The following content is filtered out:
- Drugs and alcohol: Talking about drug use or abuse, or drinking alcohol in videos.
- Sexual situations: Overly detailed conversations about or depictions of sex or sexual activity. Some educational, straightforward content about sexual education, affection or identity may be included in Restricted mode, as well as kissing or affection that's not overly sexualised or the focal point of the video.
- Violence: Graphic descriptions of violence, violent acts, natural disasters and tragedies, or even violence in the news.
- Mature subjects: Videos that cover specific details about events related to terrorism, war, crime and political conflicts that resulted in death or serious injury, even if no graphic imagery is shown.
- Profane and mature language: Inappropriate language, including profanity.
- Incendiary and demeaning content: Video content that is gratuitously incendiary, inflammatory or demeaning towards an individual or group.
