Over eight in ten Chileans consider that online content regulation is needed as internet viewing grows across the country.
According to the first public survey about content and TV on the Internet, carried out by the Consejo Nacional de Televisión (CNTV), 84% of Chileans would like a regulation that limited access to inappropriate content on the Internet.
Most of the respondents consider videos with violence and racial incitement as not appropriate, especially for younger audiences, with 39% saying they had watched this type of content at least once online. Half of them accessed such content through social media, while 29% found it via Google.
The survey also found that 55% of Chileans use YouTube to watch online content and 49% have social networks as their second most important source of video. In addition, Netflix (36%) and free-to-air TV (FTA) online platforms (35%) are also popular places to watch content.
“Digital TV, technological convergence and platform variety ... are challenging Latin America in terms of regulation,” said Óscar Reyes, president, CNTV. “For instance, we don’t have any kind of children protection on the Internet. This is a shared concern and we have decided to work on this topic in the coming months.”
