YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children

Re:YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeti... by squeaky-clean on Friday November 10, 2017 @05:25PM (#15673585)

Probably because the people complaining are not the same ones who are leaving their kids unattended with these videos. This thread is full of parents saying that they banned youtube for their child because these algorithmic videos have began to fill all youtube searches for kids.

I think it's more of a "why did bots and inattentive parents fuck it up for the rest of us."

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Re:YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeti... by alasdair_ on Friday November 10, 2017 @06:15PM (#15673906)

>I think it's more of a "why did bots and inattentive parents fuck it up for the rest of us."

The main complaint is that Youtube Kids (an explicitly kid-friendly subset of youtube, with its own app and parental controls) is being targeted in this way. I assume "the rest of us" are not generally using this version of youtube.

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Re:YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeti... by derefr on Friday November 10, 2017 @06:53PM (#15674107)

"The rest of us" parents, not "the rest of us" people.

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Re:YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeti... by anigbrowl on Friday November 10, 2017 @09:14PM (#15674623)

Enough with the victim blaming. I think this is a serious problem and I don't have any children to leave unattended.

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Re:YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeti... by bigbugbag on Sunday November 12, 2017 @05:02PM (#15682864)

I'm pretty convinced the victim here is the children and the perpertrators are the parents.

Think about it: scientific consensus is pretty clear that the content makes no difference there should be no exposure to any kind of screen for kids under 6, then maybe a tiny bit until 10-12.

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