This is youtube trying to cover their own arse. COPPA is supposed to prevent the collection, use, and distribution of personal information of children. If you're reviewing statues, what part of that law are you breaking? By trying to cover themselves, youtube has caused this mess and made things confusing and uncertain for content creators. Youtube intentionally broke the law and outed themselves by sharing data they had collected on children with potential advertisers. And now they're trying to wash their hands of this and put in on the content creators.
The FTC will not go after creators except in the most blatant cases where they do in fact break that law. This situation reminds me of people pirating movies who would receive warnings / notices from their service provider that they were risking being fined by the FTC. The service providers sent these to cover themselves. And the only people who were fined were those who were distributing and profiting from the pirated movies.
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