YouTube Finally Bans Dangerous Pranks

According to Gizmodo, YouTube has changed its policies in an attempt to cut down on potentially dangerous challenges and pranks, updating its rules to explicitly ban them from the site. In a thread on the YouTube Help Community, a Google employee wrote that while the site already has rules banning “content that encourages violence or dangerous activities that may result in serious physical harm, distress or death,” it’s pushed out an update adding a section directly prohibiting challenges and pranks that could put people in serious danger or cause a child “to experience severe emotional distress”: