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Bill Mick
The Internet's a largely unregulated digital wild west, presenting a potentially dangerous playground, especially for children. Florida has taken steps designed to protect kids from the online environment. How successful those steps are remains to be seen. Joining us today, Dr. Garth Graham, head of YouTube Health, to talk about measures developed by YouTube that promote both flexibility and control to parents looking to provide for their kids digital well being. I'm Bill. Mick. Thanks for joining us this week on the Florida Roundtable. You can catch up with me and our podcasts@billmick.com your kids and online safety. Our focus this weekend on the Florida Roundtable as We talk with Dr. Garth Graham here on the Florida News Network. We started off in moments. Glad you're with us this weekend on the Florida Roundtable.
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Bill Mick
Nice to have you with us this weekend on the Florida Roundtable. I'm Bill. Mick. Dr. Garth Graham is with us. He's the head of YouTube Health. And we're talking Internet safety and your kids. Before we get into all of that, let's talk to Dr. Graham. Tell us about your background. You're here in Florida with the rest of us. So it's good to have a Floridian here.
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Dr. Garth Graham
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I am. I'm very much Floridian. You know, I went to college at Florida International University and then went on to medical school. And so I'm a clinician by training. I still practice and spent a time at the University of Florida, where I was on faculty there for a little while and then went on to work on in the government and in the other parts of the private sector, you know, all while still seeing patients. And then Bill, you know, came to YouTube in the last couple of years really to advance what we're doing around health and getting out good health information. And also the topic we're going to talk a little bit about today in terms of, you know, how we keep our community safe and particularly the younger folks in our community.
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Bill Mick
Sure, big dangers there. And I do want to get into that in a bit. The Internet itself, it's an unregulated wild west and there's just anything out there. Florida legislature recently took some action trying to regulate these Internet providers and how their content is managed. In the name of protecting kids, they put a law into play. If you're under 16, you can't have Internet or social media accounts and the like, some leeway with parental permission for some kids. But it is still an unregulated environment out there and there are some dangers that are there. What are the biggest problems you're seeing online as you took over this YouTube health role?
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Dr. Garth Graham
Yeah, Bill, the thing is, particularly for young people, they're digital natives. Right. They think digital first. You know, my kids are savvier than me with technology. And so we have to really think about how we protect, you know, Young people, not from the digital world, but within the digital world. How do we teach them the skills and the mechanisms to be able to navigate safely? Because, Bill, the other thing is there's a lot of learning and there's a lot of great experiences. You know, my son and I, you know, he's a math. A math kid. I don't know what you call that, but he's just really heavily into math, and I've forgotten a lot about math. Let me just be quite honest. We watch YouTube videos and go through a lot of math, which is good for me and him, but there's just so much to learn. And so we have to think about all of the pluses that come with the digital environment, as well as the challenges. And then, you know, help our kids navigate appropriately so they can get all that information and learn and, you know, the whole world that they can learn about, from, you know, math to music to all kinds of things to history. But it'll help them to navigate through some of the challenges and so, you know, help parents in terms of protecting them as well. So that's really a lot of what our team works on is, you know, how do we help create some of the protections while allowing kids to learn and grow and, you know, again, because they function in a digital first world right now.
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Bill Mick
How does YouTube look at this when you're talking about. We're going to talk about the tools a little bit later, but they're developing tools to help parents. What is YouTube as an entity looking at as they provide what they see as protection for these kids, or at least tools for the parents? What are you looking at there?
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Dr. Garth Graham
Yeah, exactly. So we look at it. So we look at it as safety first. We call it responsibility. So how do we operate as a very responsible, responsible platform? And Bill, I'll tell you, that is our number one priority. This idea of, you know, making sure that we are setting up the platform in a way that, particularly for younger viewers, is responsible. And so beyond. So in terms of operationalizing that, we have a number of features and tools and things that we've been developing over the years. Bill, YouTube is the only platform that has a specific app for kids. It's called YouTube Kids.
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Bill Mick
All right, we'll talk about that some more. We're have to pause for a moment. Dr. Garth Graham is with us. Safety for your kids online in focus this weekend on the Florida Roundtable.
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Bill Mick
Back on the Florida Roundtable as we discuss Internet safety predominantly for your kids, but it wouldn't hurt for the rest of us either. Dr. Garth Graham is with us. He is the head of YouTube Health. And Dr. Graham, again, thanks for taking the time. Let's talk about kids for a minute. How much time are they spending online? This was an unknown world to me as a kid and my kids started there but it was severely limited. Now it's like all the time.
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Dr. Garth Graham
Yeah. And the thing, Bill, we did a report not too long ago with the American Psychology Association. And the real crux here, Bill, is quality time. Because, you know, there's a big difference between time where you're spending learning and having active information sharing versus time that's not that quality. And so we really emphasize, and you see in a lot of the clinical data is this idea of quality time, intentional engagement, educational information, or even the kinds of things around entertainment fund that it will help build up your child. So this idea of quality is really what's more significant, particularly Bill, as kids are continuing again, leading a digital first life and just kind of growing up in this world. So the real concept is again, how do you shift and continue not how do you shift, but how do you emphasize quality experiences, uplifting experiences, educational experiences, learning experiences, all of those kinds of things. In terms of their time online, I
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Bill Mick
would venture to say most people would suspect that the kids spend the most majority of their time on some type of social media with each other. Is that accurate? Where are kids spending their time predominantly?
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Dr. Garth Graham
Well, you know, it's hard to tell I think because at different stages as kids evolve, they interact with the digital environment in a variety of different ways. So you certainly have kids who spend a lot of times on a video platform like ours. And then you have kids as they're growing up and being more in the teenage experience where they may spend more time in also not just a video platform, social media and all those different aspects. So it really is part Bill of the evolution. And Bill, one of the things that, you know, peers and I'm a parent of four, so I am knee deep in this right now, not just from what we do in my work life, but also my personal life. And the real concept here as a parent is, and we'll talk some more about this, is to set a plan and set boundaries. And so you help guide them through that digital experience because they are going to be experiencing the world in that format. So the concept here is both around quality intentional viewing and the kinds of things that will grow their minds, grow their experiences and then engaging with them so that you are setting appropriate boundaries. And we'll talk a little bit more about this later on about age appropriate experiences and how they actually set those things. But really the focus has to be on again, quality time and setting boundaries, having a plan as a family, having a plan for that child. And Bill, last thing I'll say, having four of my own. Not every kid is the same. So you have to even get to understand your child and you know, what are the dynamics, experiences his and her doing. You Know, I do a lot of co viewing with my kids, so I'll be like, I'll sit down and be like, what are you doing? And you know, I'll just kind of watch what they're doing. So I get a sense of their digital world and that helps me set their boundaries better and understand a better part of their life. So again, it's, it's, it's how we evolve with them, Bill, as both as parents and caregivers. But again, understanding that's the world that they live in now. So how do we help them navigate that world?
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Bill Mick
Very good. Well, while we're there, let's talk about the threats, the dangers that are out there for kids. First and foremost, there's content out there they shouldn't be accessing. And if they do get access to it, it can present problems. What kind of content issues are you seeing?
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Dr. Garth Graham
Yeah, so definitely content that is not age appropriate. So certainly mature content just at baseline is, you know, is going to be challenging for their developmental experience. And that's why you really want to as a parent, emphasize age appropriate experiences online for your child. So making sure that you know, and we'll talk a bit more about that. Like on YouTube, you go into the parental settings and that you're setting for your supervised experience, age appropriate content. So for instance, Bill, again using the YouTube example, you know, again you go into the settings, you go into the family center and then you pick based on your child's age what kind of viewing experience they should have. And so for instance, if the child like you know, my 11 year old, he has a viewing experience that is within that age group setting.
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Child 1
Okay.
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Dr. Garth Graham
And so for instance, it, you know, it's more tutorials and you know, he watches a lot more sports content. It, you know, it doesn't in his age group, you know, live streaming and those kinds of things would be less frequent and the ability around comments and so forth and then mature, mature content wouldn't even, would not surface for him. And it's similar to, for my teenager as well. And so being able to set these age appropriate experiences are really important for again allowing your child to develop. Bill, because they're going to grow. And so as they grow more and their developmental stages allow them to make more again age appropriate decisions, that's when you kind of guide them through their process. So Bill, just as how we as parents guide them through other decisions in life, guiding their digital journey is particularly important.
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Bill Mick
Makes a lot of sense. Something I think especially the younger kids need to realize is the lack of Reality in many ways online that predators are out there. They may be telling you they're an 11 year old girl, but it could be a 37 year old guy. And that reality distinction for kids could be tough. And that would assume predominantly comes through the social media apps, but also through gaming. They might be involved when they're messaging during games. So what are you thinking about in that?
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Dr. Garth Graham
Yeah, so that again, just like how we teach our kids. You know, I remember back in the day, back in the day, you know, my mom would teach me about the stranger danger.
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Dr. Garth Graham
And the kinds of things to look out for and you know, you know, not interacting and talking with strangers or people I don't know and how to engage in that. We have to teach our kids this, the same things through their online experience. So you know, understanding, just as you said, teaching them and being very concrete, the person communicating to you on the other end may not be in their, in their best interest. And so this is why you keep your communication loop small to trusted people, people that you know and, and making sure that they understand that. So at Zimbabwe, the same kinds of techniques we use to guide them, you know, in terms of navigating the, the, the, the streets and the, the world we have, we have to give them those tools to navigate the online world. Because again, Bill, again this is just the world they're living in. It's, it's, it's a combination of online, offline, et cetera. And you know, you teach them things like, you know, you know, someone's communicating with you and trying to meet you in person, what are the dangers and making sure that they understand how dangerous that concept is. Just like how they would be, you know, worried about a stranger in real life. So Bill, the thing here, again going back to my first part is have these family conversations, have a family plan, set the boundaries, understand in terms of what they're doing and we'll talk a little bit more about some of the tools and age appropriate experiences and how to help set those.
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Bill Mick
Staying on the reality front. More recently on the Internet world, the development and rapid advancement of what we're calling artificial intelligence. And we've seen stories where kids or even adults develop relationship with an artificial intelligence intelligence entity. And those can be malevolent at times. We had a sad case in central Florida where a kid took his own life over the threatening and bad behavior of an AI chatbot that was talking to this kid. We've got to really express to them reality is something different than what you're experiencing online. Even though That's a real part of their world.
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Dr. Garth Graham
That's right. Path. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, you know, there. There are tools. There's two ways to look at it, and there's. There is the responsibility that many of us who work on these tools have to continue to develop. And we'll talk more about some of the safety things that we're developing. That's one part. But then also. Also acknowledging as well. Again, Bill, as you just said, teaching our kids how to understand technology, the dangers of technology, and to be able to differentiate the real versus unreal experiences. And, Bill, that's the muscle that as parents, we have for other things when we're teaching our kids about bullying and other experiences that we migrate into these digital concepts as well. So, again, understanding and teaching them about navigating their online world, setting a plan, setting boundaries, understanding red flags, understanding things that are concerning, just like they would in the real world. I think all of those things still
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Bill Mick
very much apply in today's world. Communication for these kids is instant. When I was a kid, if I was calling a friend to arrange to go play basketball, if his mom was on the phone, I wasn't getting through. I either had to go to his house and find him, but now it's instant. And there's an expectation of instant gratification that comes with that too, I think.
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Dr. Garth Graham
Yeah, yeah. And again, you know, you know, giving them the tools as kids and as teenagers to really develop appropriately, Bill, is really important. And thinking through, again, you know, how at, you know, seven or eight is one age and stage of development. 10 and 11, 14, 15, and then how do you kind of grade their experiences? So they're able to develop a lot of the. The emotional regulatory concepts and tools that you're articulating. That is very much needed. But, you know, we, you know, this next generation is amazing. And, you know, what we have to do, again, is to continue to give them the skills and tools to continue to learn from. Because there's so much information out there in the digital sphere. Right. There's so much they can learn. Right. You can access the best of all kinds of information, allowing them to get the best while understanding some of the challenges.
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Bill Mick
We've got about a minute left in this segment. Let me hit you with a fairly straightforward question. Are parents today good online supervisors, or do they have a lot to learn to be able to be good at this?
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Dr. Garth Graham
You know, parenting is hard. I'm just gonna tell you, living my life, I never, you know, we struggle through this. It's a day by day My wife likes to say it's like hand to hand managing these four kids. So it's a challenge and so it's a hard job. We have to think through how we empower parents to be able to do the best because they love their kids and they want the best. So I think empowering parents is the
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Bill Mick
key and we're going to go there because you folks at YouTube have developed tools to help parents do this and do it better than maybe they've been doing it already. We do that as we continue the Florida Roundtable right here on the Florida News Network. Catch our podcast@billmick.com
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Bill Mick
Back on the Florida Roundtable with Dr. Garth Graham. He's the head of YouTube Health as we're talking your kids or grandkids and online safety. And Dr. Graham, again, appreciate you being here important because these kids are living in an online world a lot of the time spending a lot of their day online, whether it's education or entertainment or just connection and communication with their friends. You guys have developed at YouTube some tools to help parents better manage this and protect their kids. Let's talk about some of those, the tools that are available, the problems you see and the solution you've got.
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Dr. Garth Graham
Yep, yep, yep. So I was mentioning before, Bill, this idea of setting boundaries for, for kids. And so depending on your child's age, we offer a lot of different environments from YouTube kids to teen accounts that allow you to set what experience you want your child to go through. And so for instance, for younger kids, you know, less than 9, there is YouTube kids and that's where you can tailor your child's experience by hand picking videos for your little ones to watch. And then for teens and the preteens, the supervised accounts. And then you can go in and choose a time management and then from there you can do, you know, something as much as even limit how much shorts or short storm video the team can scroll through on YouTube, YouTube shorts being the again, a short form video. So you can even limit the amount of short form video your teenager or pre teen experiences.
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Bill Mick
So these are parental controls that the parents set and they have a password to get to so the kids don't change them. Mom and dad change them and set up the parameters.
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Dr. Garth Graham
That's right. So you go in actually through the parents account and you click on your name and then you go down to send it to the family center and there you're able to manage each of the experiences that you have for your kids. And Bill, that leads to kind of one other thing that we've done and this idea of prioritizing age appropriate content. So I have kids who span the spectrum from 3 to 13. And so there are different experiences I would want for my kids. So for instance my 7, 8 year old, she would be more on YouTube kids. And you know, my 11 year old, I would want, I would set his supervised experience for kind of the, you know, preteen, you know, where he'd have more music, educational content, you know, arts and crafts. And it would exclude things like live streams. But then for my older kid, you know, I would give him set my experience to this explore more setting which would give them a broader range of videos but still exclude, you know, things like, you know, you know, anything that's more adult or more mature content in general. So this idea of age appropriate experience is really important and something we take very seriously. And it goes back, Bill, to this concept of realizing kids are all at the different developmental stages and they're in an online environment. So then how can we set, have parents set those overall experiences so that they're able to have that? And then the last thing that we've done is we made it a lot easier to create accounts for parents to put their kids into these age experiences from the start. So this is going to be like how you have your Netflix or something else where you have able to sag these separate accounts. So this who's Watching feature, it allows you to switch between account instantly. So if you want, your teens are going to be viewing it versus in an adult. So it ensures that every family lands in their own age appropriate experience. And so all of this allows you to kind of manage your kids account and your supervised accounts for your kids and teens. And it allows you to easily create new accounts. So what we're trying to do, Bill, is knowing that parents are busy, knowing that there's a lot going on, you know, create these simplified experiences that Allow you parents to set age appropriate experience, you know, toggle between some of that viewing, but then within these age appropriate experience, have the safeguards so that kids are able to, you know, experience the, the kind of either music, entertainment or learning, but have all these additional protections around that.
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Bill Mick
Very good. I talked to several legislators during the time that Florida was crafting the legislation to protect kids in an online environment. And they said their concern were things that were designed into some of these apps that were addictive features, they had addictive qualities and ends up with kids just scrolling all day on that type of thing. I can imagine parents walking into this new, not necessarily understanding what's happening. What are some of the signs they're looking for in their kids that there's a problem with what's going on online.
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Dr. Garth Graham
Yeah. You know, in any behavior pattern with children, whether that has to do with online dynamics, offline dynamics, you know, anything that would make you, anything that looks like it's interfering with your child's normal activity is always something that should make you a concern. So I think, you know, again, in the spectrum of anything that kids experience, if you start to notice that there are things that are getting the way of their friendships and they're building, building, continuing to build and enjoy their life and navigate school appropriately, that's when you always start to want to look at whatever that experience is and how it's interacting and interfering with your child's growth. So that's the kind of way I think about it and I think that's the way a lot of the kind of clinical concepts around parenting point towards.
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Bill Mick
I would almost imagine that if a parent has questions, they could go to YouTube and find a video to help them go through this.
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Dr. Garth Graham
That's right. Well, you know, that's the funny thing
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Bill Mick
is you're going to be starring in the next one because I expect you to have one done next week.
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Dr. Garth Graham
No, no, it's true. I mean, that's one of the main things about YouTube. You know, my son had all these questions the other day about Madagascar. I have no idea. Madagascar. I don't know where this added. Yeah, so we thought of it to give us everything to do. But you can. But, but, but, but, but in all seriousness, there is a lot of. We have a lot of pointers and tutorials and teaching about understanding with how to use these parental settings. And then there's a lot of our partners who have, including folks from, you know, Doctors and Psychology association, et cetera, who have put out information. In fact, Bill, the American Psychological association, we work with to put out a guide around healthy viewing habits and how to do that. And that's on our YouTube health site as well. So all of these resources we have are really around trying to help parents navigate this digital time period.
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Bill Mick
Are you seeing other corporations that have these Internet applications? Are they stepping up in a similar way to YouTube or we've got areas where we've really got to work on this?
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Dr. Garth Graham
Well, I know I'll say that we were the first platform to create this YouTube and the only one that's created this YouTube kids experience specific for little children and then the only one who most recently have set this limit around parents along their limits around scrolling short form videos. So there's a lot that we've done, Bill, and part of it is just we've been in this space a long time around kids and teens and so and we work a lot with psychologists and developmental folks and a lot of experts. So we're able to learn and iterate over the, you know, over, you know, going on 10 plus years now that we've had this YouTube Kids app. So that's allowed us to really kind of develop these tools. And then the other thing, Bill, is it's allowed us to understand how we help parents navigate the trajectory of the development of your child. And so, you know, watching them going from kind of the YouTube kids to the more teenage experience and creating those tools, I think so you've got kind
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Bill Mick
of a baseline of how these kids advance from one area to another. Then you've got an arc of how that occurs.
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Dr. Garth Graham
Exactly. Right, right. Because of particular we've created this environment specifically for kids that allow parents to very much tailor that young kid experience. And with all these safety dynamics around it, it's given us a lot of learnings. And so that's what's been special about the kind of YouTube journey around this. And then Bill, you know, we're continuing to evolve. You know, there is nothing static in this process. We're going to grow and you know, we're going to hear a lot more from parents, hear a lot more from people as we have conversations with you and others, you know, learn a lot about, you know, how we continue to improve.
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Bill Mick
Very, very good. As we continue this morning, I want to see some of the corporate angle on what corporations perceive their responsibilities to be. We tend to frame these things in discussion as first amendment rights, but rights also carry responsibilities with them. And where is that line drawn, how corporations are reacting to this and things that parents can be aware of as to what's reasonable. What's not. We will move forward that as we talk to Dr. Garth Graham, head of YouTube Health, this morning on the Florida Round. Well, it might not be morning when you're listening today on the Florida Roundtable, and we'll pick it up in just moments here on the Florida News Network.
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Dr. Garth Graham
Yep, Yep. So let me walk through how a parent would do this, just even by setting it up so, you know, say you're signed into YouTube from your computer. You would click on your profile picture, then you would click on Settings and then go into the family center. So much like you do with most of your other apps or devices, where you click on your name and then you go into Settings. But what you find unique in this YouTube experiences will be the family center area. There you can kind of manage the kids profiles and the features for teens. So you click invite a teen or you'll create an invite so that you can link their account, and then your teen teenager will go on the opposite end and do the same. It's important for parents. And then we're going to make it even easier now with being able to kind of create these accounts that you can toggle between. But the thing is, all of these tools that we have created come to life within these supervised teen experiences. So being able to make sure that you've created these, the linkage between the, you know, your account and the teen account allows us to then be able to make sure all of these safeguards are in place. So, Bill, I'll tell you another safeguard that's in place, particularly for teens. What are logged in there might be, for instance, Bill, a video that you as a teenager or as an adult, let me say an adult may view multiple times, may not be dangerous like a video on social aggression, but a teenager, in viewing it just one time, may not be a problem. But if they start to view it multiple times, might be more of a problem, particularly things around like maybe social aggression or eating disorders or things along those lines.
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Bill Mick
Sure.
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Dr. Garth Graham
And so within the supervised experience, we limit the amount of times a teen may view that. Certainly if there we have strict policies around eating disorder, anything that may expose a teen to anything around eating disorders, where we take that off the platform or limit that. But the kinds of things that may even be higher risk for a teenager, were you able to limit the amount of times a teen would view that within these supervised experiences?
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Bill Mick
Are the parents able to go see how many times a child has viewed a particular video as a hint for that kind of time?
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Dr. Garth Graham
Yeah. So one of the things they can be able to see on the younger side for kids is that viewing experience in general. And so I'm being able to be able to kind of set some of the parameters around that, particularly for younger children. Okay. And so all of this allows us to kind of function within this protected environment and have your kids function within this more protected environment and grow at the same time. So that's why it's really important. That's why, Bill, I'm glad you're taking the time to talk today because it's really important for parents to know that the tools are there, activate them, and then it's important for us to make the tools easier to activate, as we're working on and continuing to do.
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Bill Mick
Now we've got states working to regulate this, and I'm a big free enterprise guy, and the business ought to run their business, and government needs to stay as far out of it as it can. But rights and responsibilities go hand in hand. How is YouTube seeing their responsibility here? What's their goal as they look at these things?
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Dr. Garth Graham
Yeah, I mean, responsibility first. I mean, we see, you know, we're in general, YouTube is a platform, the biggest platform, largest video platform around the world. But we view responsibility as the number one priority, particularly when it comes to our younger viewers. So from our perspective, we view responsibility as good business. And we view just, you know, we put a lot of time and effort, a lot of time and effort working with these experts, developing these tools, you know, iterating them, you know, bringing them, improving them, coming, you know, you know, making multiple changes as we continue to grow. So I would say from YouTube's perspective, just like you said, you know, we, you know, as a platform that allows people to express themselves, give them a voice, is particularly important. But we also balance this with responsibility we have for younger viewers.
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Bill Mick
As we look at the federal government and the state governments are now battling about regulation of artificial intelligence, I think it would be very difficult for a company like YouTube to tackle 50 different sets of rules if they can tackle it with just one. That's gotta be a difficult hurdle to climb. Are you seeing difficulties there? And I got about 30 seconds for you here.
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Dr. Garth Graham
Oh, yeah, yeah. I'll say. I think everyone's trying to get to the same goal, Bill, which is create a safer environment. So for us, we're just really focused on managing these tools to make it that way and get it safer. So I think we all share the same goal of trying to make this safer for kids.
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Bill Mick
And we'll be back in just moments with Dr. Garth Graham, head of YouTube Health, as we wrap up the Internet safety and your kids this weekend on the Florida Roundtable. Nice to have you spending time with US on the Florida News Network.
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Dr. Garth Graham
It does, and I would say one is, you know, we have to help our kids navigate again within the digital world, not from the digital world just because they are digital natives first. So three points I'd want to leave parents with is one, set boundaries that work for your family. Whatever your, whatever you want to have work, but set those boundaries and you know, teach the kids how to consume content responsibly and while keeping the final say on what's appropriate. So again, being able to really set those boundaries and understanding, you know, the differences in your child. The other thing is again prioritizing age appropriate content, you know, understanding that for younger audiences things are different than for older as your kids grow. So understanding that, you know, how you set that journey and then, you know, spend the time, you know, trying to set up the systems that help your kids benefit from the online protection and the things that are there. And the last thing I'll end with, Bill. And again, as a, you know, as a parent, I face this all the time is, you know, when you set those boundaries, have a plan, just like how you have a plan for other components of your, you know, kids lives and development, have a plan for how you want them to be experiencing and evolving within this digital world. And then, you know, spend some time also looking at the kinds of things they consume so that you have a, you have a sense and within that shared viewing experience what, what, what they enjoy and things along those lines. So I would say that that would be the kinds of advice I would have for parents. But again, we all have to work hard to help our younger population navigate, you know, within this digital world.
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Bill Mick
Now let's close it with signs parents can look for with their children. Whether it's the amount of time they're spending online or how they're reacting after they're using this content or interacting with friends or others. What do parents need to look for to say, oh, my kid may be in trouble?
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Dr. Garth Graham
Yeah, I would say a couple of things. A change in behavior that seems uncharacteristic of how they were before. The second would be obviously, you know, things that are interfering with a school or the kinds of activities that outside of their online experiencing was allowing them to grow. And then I would say, you know, as parents, we always want to have a sense, just like how we have a sense of who their friends are in real life and, you know, we have a sense of who their good friends are and, you know, what things are going on. We all want that sense of who they're interacting with in terms of their digital life so that the same conceptual protections and thinking and watch outs you'd give them in an offline world, you want to give them that online world as well.
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Bill Mick
That's fantastic. Dr. Garth Graham, appreciate your time today. I wish we had more time because it's flown by, but invaluable information for parents and for these kids as this digital world is going to continue to grow, it's going to consume their working lives. If you can help them manage it now, they're going to be better off down the road. So thank you again. I look forward to us talking again.
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Dr. Garth Graham
Thank you, Bill.
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Bill Mick
All right. And that's going to do it for this edition of the Florida Roundtable. Thanks for joining us. We'll meet you back here next week on the Florida News Network. Go enjoy your week, everybody. We'll see you then.
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Dr. Garth Graham
Thanks, bill. I'm out.
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Bill Mick
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