In a recent post a visitor to both my YouTube Channel and this web site asked a very reasonable question:

“Why don’t you (i.e me) allow comments on your YouTube Channel?”

This is an EXTREMELY reasonable question. Here was my answer, and how it pertains to protecting children …

That is a great question. I do not allow comments on my YouTube Channel because I have personally certified to Google / YouTube that my channel is “child friendly”. Google in turn does not then allow comments on such a “certified channel” because unfortunately there are some nasty people in this world who write bad stuff. My YouTube channel is found via many “child friendly’ search engines. In addition I allow free downloads of my owl children’s books from my web site, and my images are utilized in various elementary text books. Hopefully you see the pattern of my actions. I wish I could allow comments via YouTube, but Unfortunately our world is not perfect.

Following up on the same frame of thought … notice how I do NOT take advertising, sponsors or any kind of pay for this web site. It has been my pleasure over the past 12 years to serve up safe, not commercial content about birding … and thus it shall continue. I am a FAILURE as a paid influencer!