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Re:Social Media Has Failed Its Self-Driving Test by tb303 on Thursday November 09, 2017 @01:40PM (#15664715)
I don't think you are familiar with the content. As a parent, I am. We've reported them to YT and they don't act. These are videos that pretend to be about spiderman or peppa pig but involve blood, violence, sexual themes, dismemberment, etc. I understand what you are asking but it's irrelevant here, this isn't an intellectual exercise where we decide "hey, this isn't so bad after all."
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Re:Social Media Has Failed Its Self-Driving Test by replicatorblog on Thursday November 09, 2017 @01:59PM (#15664881)
How old are your kids? My daughter is four and for the last two years has watched a few thousand hours of YT Kids while battling cancer. We've had nothing but good experiences. The toy uboxing videos have created friction in so far as she wants to buy a lot of the toys she sees demonstrated, but beyond that the worst thing we've seen are a few scatalogical references surrounding diaper changes and other fairly normal toddler fare.

I've been confused reading all these stories about YT Kids, how do the kids even get to this stuff? The obvious search terms are banned by the app, but how deep down the rabbit hole does one have to go?

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Re:Social Media Has Failed Its Self-Driving Test by megaman22 on Thursday November 09, 2017 @01:53PM (#15664820)
Sounds like Robot Chicken. Fortunately Cartoon Network firewalls off Adult Swim with an hour or so of King of the Hill or other bland, boring material.
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Re:Social Media Has Failed Its Self-Driving Test by astura on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:27PM (#15665610)
No, Robot Chicken is a show that's intended for an adult audience and intended to amuse adults.

This garbage on YouTube Kids is aimed at getting children to watch it and intended to be disturbing to children. The titles say things like "educational, learn numbers" and the channels are called stuff like "Kids TV."

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Re:Social Media Has Failed Its Self-Driving Test by jff on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:02PM (#15665416)
I typically only watch Cartoon Network when I'm traveling for work and I only wish it was King of the Hill. They use Family Guy as a firewall and it's fucking interminable, I keep flipping back hoping it's come around to Robot Chicken or whatever but it's always more goddamn Family Guy.
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