Status of Women committee  Yes, there are a lot of self-directed portions of Applejacks that we have made open source. They are in our Google Safety Center, if you google it. I think it has a 45-minute click-through that you can do as a parent with your child. Applejacks is something we would obviously l

Status of Women committee  I can speak to that. On a Chrome browser, we have something called “managed users”. You can basically create a different user for each member of your family and create settings based on that person's age. You can choose level of appropriateness. You can turn on safety settings f

Status of Women committee  I think in developing digital skills, we have a talent angle to this as well. We need to hire a lot of people to do the work we do. Currently there is a talent shortage of people with these skills. That would be our self-interested perspective, but I will say that we have a stron

Status of Women committee  I think that the most important thing is to be as specific as possible, because when you come out with.... Using the example of no nudity on the Internet, the examples that I just gave you about health education or artistic nudity or something like that, we would be limiting ours

Status of Women committee  I think it starts in the schools. Organizations like MediaSmarts, people who are doing things on the coding and programming skills side, are wonderful organizations and very important, but it does have to start in the classroom. I think it starts with curriculum. I understand obv

Status of Women committee  With regard to revenge porn, once we get a flag from a user that says their image has been shared without their consent, we take it down, but we also provide them instructions on how to contact a webmaster to get it taken off the Internet.

Status of Women committee  I'm not familiar with this part of the law in depth, and I don't really feel that I'd be comfortable in making a comparison. Malika, do you have any insight into the Canadian law?

Status of Women committee  One other way that I think we can counterbalance this is with the use of counterspeech. It's by encouraging these organizations to flood these places with counterspeech to hate and violence. We've done some things with our YouTube creators called Creators for Change. We created

Status of Women committee  Malika, maybe you can speak, since you were in one of these organizations until recently, and I can talk to the Canadian context.

Status of Women committee  I completely agree with what Malika said, and we've heard that from our partners here as well. There comes some weight with brands like Google, Twitter, and Facebook that I think give viability to a lot of these organizations. Obviously the funding is very, very important, but we

Status of Women committee  Yes, but it has to be very narrowly based, because if you think about content, say, like breastfeeding, if you just take down all images with breasts, we're going to miss out on all of those educational resources. It's like a race to the bottom; it's a very slippery slope. With

Status of Women committee  On YouTube specifically, we do not allow violence on the platform whatsoever. Those are against our community guidelines, and they are taken down. That is done by user flagging. If someone flags the video as inappropriate, we have a team that reviews them 24/7. Malika, do you kn

Status of Women committee  We do not service pornography, unless you're explicitly searching for it. There are obviously some terms where there is some overlap, for example, like “cougar”. We make sure to demote the pornographic sites on that term so that you don't stumble upon it without having intended t

Status of Women committee  I'm not familiar with an e-safety commissioner in Australia. I think any work that the government can do to promote education amongst children, because I think that's probably the biggest key here, and having someone to coordinate with industry, would be welcome. Malika, do yo

Status of Women committee  I think that tech companies writ large have to step up to these things together. There are obviously areas in which we compete, but this is not one of them. We all have a best interest in keeping our children and families safe online. I think a more coordinated effort on our part