The real question, though, is why would YouTube age-restrict a video just because it contains the word "murder"? I mean, this is completely insane. I've never heard of such a thing, and I'm pretty sure it's something very recent. Is this everywhere on YouTube?
And are the algorithms really so stupid that they would age-restrict a video that contains the word "murder", and they wouldn't age-restrict one that says "ended his life"?
The answer to all your questions is YES.
There’s an extensive list of algorithm triggering no-no words on YT.
abuse, sɛҳuąƖ, sex, ѕυιcιdє, kill, murder, dead, ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ, anything to do with slavery, Jews, h0Ɩ0cαųst, Islam, certain body parts, rape, Hitler, nαzι, abortion.......
You must come up with creative euphemisms or disguise the words with symbols. You must not use certain words in combination or in the same comment.
I made the mistake of combining the wrong words in a comment and got kicked off for a week. They told me it was hate speech. It was most definitely not hateful if properly read for meaning. The algorithm detected certain words and automatically assumed they were hate speech. There wasn’t ample time for real people to read the comment and register a complaint before it was taken down and a warning issued to my account! It was literally a few seconds!
Even if you do NOT have any filters on your YT, you are censored and so are all the videos. It’s not just words, spoken and written, also visuals. I’ve given up on some docuмentaries because more than half of them were blurred out! The things blurred were not what one might expect, like the faces of children for privacy, but anything that someone might find “triggering.” A few examples, historic battlefield footage in a docuмentary, a real surgeon’s educational channel, two lions battling for charge of the pride in a nature docuмentary, all blurred out in case someone gets upset. The surgeon gave up on YT. If you want to learn about his procedures, you have to view it on his professional website. No, I don’t think porn should be allowed anywhere, but that often slips through. If people don’t want to see surgery or blood or certain topics, that’s what filters are for! (Remember the TV series in the 1980’s, The Operation”?) If I had a child or a child had access to my YT, you can bet I’d have filters, however, I'm an adult senior woman. I am not tempted by porn and if I do not want to view something, I delete it. YT “knows” my preferences so getting sent any indecent “Suggested For You” videos is very rare. If something looks off-putting, I just delete the channel. Other platforms are out there that will allow the politically incorrect and show unfiltered war docuмentaries, but they are pricey or have less variety and are more difficult to use.