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

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Post by gcgggfxsdg »

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…

Go away. I already have to endure having my ears blasted away at 6 in the morning by the self-checkout machine thanks to deaf people.

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

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Post by macspoofing »

keymone wrote: post #177
macspoofing wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not one of the cited videos in the article was a example of something that is 'designed to hurt and traumatise'

no, sorry, you've lost touch with reality or don't have kids you care about or both. if i read this stuff and my mind goes "holy crap this is just sick, the !@#$ who created that content has to be executed" - it is enough of an indication for me that no kid should ever be exposed to that. not only creators of such content should get jailtime, youtube has to pay fines for each child-minute streamed even if it drives a…

No. You lost touch with reality. None of the cited videos were traumatizing. It's an insane statement to make. Kids live through wars and horrific abuse or neglect. Those things are 'traumatic'. You're freaking out over YouTube videos that are kind of weird.

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

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Post by macspoofing »

gpetukhov wrote: post #190
macspoofing wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not one of the cited videos in the article was a example of something that is 'designed to hurt and traumatise'

I agree. They are designed to get as many views from kids. Them being traumatic may be a side effect, but not the goal.

'traumatic' is way overstating it.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

WalterBright wrote: post #253
socialist_coder wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/why-your-kid-cant-l...

Years ago, a friend of mine was thrilled with Sesame Street, because after watching it for a year his daughter learned most of her letters and could count to 10. I replied that sounded like the most inefficient method of teaching ever devised. Not what he wanted to hear :-)

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

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Post by thomastjeffery »

mynewtb wrote: post #32
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.

How on earth can parents willingly expose their children to any kind of advertisement is beyond me. Adblocking is a must. Especially at such young age, you should know and control all manipulative media your kid consumes.

Unfortunately, decent adblock on Android requires root, which most can't have, and most of those who can would still need to unlock the bootloader, flash recovery, flash supersu, install fdroid, and install adblock. That leaves us with a very small subset of users that can use adblock.

This problem is exasperated by the fact that phones/tablets are particularly well-suited to, and popular with, young children. Children like to carry things around.

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

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Post by macspoofing »

kevingadd wrote: post #170
macspoofing wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. When I read the original I expected violence and gore videos put together by trolls to freak out kids. And I thought the article was a total waste of time. We live in the age the mob.

Videos where peppa the pig gets tortured by a dentist and turns into a robot don't count as violence?

Jesus. When you write it like that I have visions of a horror film full of gore. It's an intellectually dishonest statement because the video is so tame - at best, slightly weird.

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

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Post by aaron695 »

If you think this is an issue you are a bad parent. Or a bad parent in the making.

I guess since most people don't get training in parenting it make sense most people are bad. Shrug.

Try to articulate in you mind why this is bad (looking at evedence). I think you'll find it hard.

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

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Post by spookthesunset »

mehwoot wrote: post #264
andrepd wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you even trying to compare a Disney film or similar "saccharnine contentless" media to the sheer acid trip nightmare fuel that is videos like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXjJdv5fj5k

I don't get what is so bad? If you watch the video it has a story, it is just really poorly animated.

You seriously don’t see what is wrong with a five year old watching that? Did you even watch it?

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

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Post by thomastjeffery »

cowpig wrote: post #155

I don't believe in this kind of censorship and that medium article just reads like a bunch of alarmist nonsense to me. I was exposed to tons of super-weird stuff on TV an the internet (adult swim, fat-pie, etc) and so were most of my friends growing up. I don't think it was problematic for any of us. When you're a kid and something feels disturbing, you turn it off. Our society really doesn't give kids any credit for…

> Most of all, I don't like that one corporation has the power to "crack down" on a whim about what's appropriate for kids to watch on a global scale.

This is the real problem. We need to break the platform monopoly ASAP.

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

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Post by thomastjeffery »

SN76477 wrote: post #196

The attention being brought to this by journalists wouldnt be happening if Youtube were being more accountable. Its fine if they do not want to offer a product for children, but when you do offer something for children you take on a massive responsibility. Youtube admitting the mistake and fixing it is the only answer they can give of course. But it is a major point that they should responsible in the first place, so…

> you take on a massive responsibility.

The problem is centralization. There is only one YouTube, and therefore YouTube is responsible for way too much.

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