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Re: YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children

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Post by needz »

porfirium wrote: post #81
reustle wrote: post #23

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Here are a few from my subscriptions page: ElectroBoom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjN3j0jZirs Abroad In Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5lMM160etI AvE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSxgn0_yU-8 Neistat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZakJFqdpRY Philip DeFranco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOa6PA8XQtQ

ReviewBrah: https://twitter.com/TROTWOfficial/status/920395476209471489 https://twitter.com/TROTWOfficial/status/925346887753969664 https://twitter.com/TROTWOfficial/status/926838929751465984

This guy is as wholesome as wholesome can possibly be and he was still demonetized. Wears suits, is cordial with his viewers, doesn't curse... what more could YT want?

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Post by rrhd »

justaman wrote: post #113
rrhd wrote: post #102

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> it seems like the prevailing opinion is that YouTube is specifically targeting them based on political bias That's because they like to be victims. It's all about the narrative. If you look around you see this happening broadly. You see a lot of people concerned about it who don't even mention politics.

Generally its the left that tends to play the victim card for sympathy points. Clearly both sides do this however because its(unfortunately) a powerful card to play. If you look at independent conservative youtubers such as Lauren Southern in particular you'll see the clear bias YT has.

The left likes to play victim about other things.

Conservatives love to push the idea that they were targeted purely for being conservative. Look at the reaction around Damore, for example. It's all about how conservatives are being oppressed, how you can't trust the media and tech because they hate conservatives.

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Post by matt4077 »

Feniks wrote: post #61
watwut wrote: post #44

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Advertisers from France will never agree with advertisers from America on what is controversial. Not even speaking about advertisers from Saudi Arabia.

Excellent point. Saying vagina in the Netherlands isn't a big deal, in the US the FCC would be calling your boss.

"Vagina" is actually allowed. Also, this is among the gems of the google infobox: https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=fcc+forbidden+words

Re: YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children

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Post by rhizome »

louprado wrote: post #106
teddyh wrote: post #95

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Sweden, but on closer inspection it seems I was mistaken. There are, however, very strict rules: • No junk mail addressed to anyone under 16 years of age. • No TV advertisements directed towards, or meant to catch the attention of, anyone under 12 years of age. Additionally, in TV shows aimed at children below 12, there can be: 1. No commercials preceding or following the program, nor any commercial breaks in the pro…

>> People or characters from TV shows aimed at children below 12 are not allowed to do any product endorsements, in any context. I wonder how this is handled when the ad context is implicit. Isn't Spiderman's image, for example, always an implied advertisement for Marvel, his movies, action figures, and whatever cereal box he is appearing on this month.

It's not implicit, cobranding just usually doesn't use words.

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Post by ascorbic »

blattimwind wrote: post #97
fapjacks wrote: post #68

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RIGHT. People complaining about these bizarre violent videos but they'll sit their kids in front of mind control all day.

"I cannot be bothered to look after my offspring therefore I will downvote whomever doubts that education-by-internet for two year olds is appropiate"

I'll go out on a limb and guess you don't have kids, right?

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Post by ceejayoz »

blattimwind wrote: post #97
fapjacks wrote: post #68

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RIGHT. People complaining about these bizarre violent videos but they'll sit their kids in front of mind control all day.

"I cannot be bothered to look after my offspring therefore I will downvote whomever doubts that education-by-internet for two year olds is appropiate"

It's more "I haven't been able to do laundry/dishes in days and 30 minutes of Sesame Street videos won't hurt".

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Post by watwut »

microcolonel wrote: post #107
sbjustin wrote: post #75

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Yeah. She's only allowed on Netflix now. I've seen Sofia 10,000 times.

I never understood how it was possible for little girls to watch the same movie literally hundreds of times, sometimes twice in one day. Some day science will get around to the real mysteries like this. I think I've tried to erase the memories of torture I survived, hearing Horton Hears a Who played most days for almost a year.

Little kids have bad memory. That is factor too - it is more interesting to them cause they see something "new" they don't remember each time.

Re: YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children

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Post by drdeca »

blattimwind wrote: post #97
fapjacks wrote: post #68

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RIGHT. People complaining about these bizarre violent videos but they'll sit their kids in front of mind control all day.

"I cannot be bothered to look after my offspring therefore I will downvote whomever doubts that education-by-internet for two year olds is appropiate"

I don't remember seeing "whomever" before, so I hope you don't mind me trying to understand where it is used.

I see that it is used for the object of a verb, and whoever for the subject of a verb, but I am a bit confused here, because here it is the object of "downvote", but the subject of "doubts", so I am confused.

In the sentence "I will look at whomever Bob greets.", I think I understand why it is "whomever", and in the sentence "Whoever enters the room next, they will encounter a surprise.", I think I understand why it is "whoever" and not "whomever", but in the case of your sentence, I don't know what the rule is.

Could you (or anyone else) please explain it to me?

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Post by ascorbic »

richmarr wrote: post #25
tmaly wrote: post #8

What I find interesting is when you have parental controls on, and your playing a kids video, the advertisements are not something a kid should be shown.

It reminds me of the surprisingly-high proportion of content available without subtitles/captions. It's 2017 and plenty of people are deaf, and yet the BBC, Netflix, Amazon, etc. regularly pretend this section of their audience doesn't exist. My guess is that is an instance of poor diversity within the team that set the early direction for YouTube. Maybe a team with a higher proportion of parents respresented might h…

Not sure where you get the information about the BBC, but all of the shows on its main channels are available with subtitles.

Re: YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children

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Post by [deleted] »

ascorbic wrote: post #125
blattimwind wrote: post #97

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"I cannot be bothered to look after my offspring therefore I will downvote whomever doubts that education-by-internet for two year olds is appropiate"

I'll go out on a limb and guess you don't have kids, right?

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